TheTOMS RIVER Times Vol. 18 - No. 41
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February 18, 2023
Local Mayors Demand More From Ciba Settlement
Local Artists, Musicians And Filmmakers Showcased
By Chris Lundy TOMS RIVER – The Ocean County Mayors’ Association said that a settlement between the state and the owners of the Ciba Geigy property doesn’t go far enough to help with the health, economic, or environmental impacts of the site. Toms River officials said that the current owner, BASF, escaped from paying any monetary penalties because the State Department of Environmental Protection surrendered any claims for statutory
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natural resource damages. The mayors are asking for a number of concessions, including the creation of a depository at the Ocean County library system (hard copy and digital) for documents about the condition of the site, with all permits relating to discharges, reports of work completed on landfills, and monitoring info regarding the Toms River and nearby wetlands. They also want BASF to publish monitoring (Ciba - See Page 6)
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Dr. Izzy’s Sound News Page 16
Inside The Law Page 19
-Photo By Bob Vosseller The musical group Sleeping in the Sun provided their unique soundtrack-style sound during the latest TV Party 2020 event held at the American Legion Post 351 in Seaside Heights. By Bob Vosseller SEASIDE HEIGHTS – Bringing art, music, fun and food to the area was the aim of the fourth TV Party 2020 event that was recently
held at the borough’s American Legion Post 351. The event was sponsored by Roaming Dingo Productions in cooperation with American
Legion Post 351 and Navy Lakehurst Historical Society. The collaborative effort is an ongoing local Ocean County celebration of art, music and
film, showcasing local talent, subjects and people. The latest event highlighted music by two musical groups, Johnny Nameless and
Sadness And Anger At Vigil Held For Adriana Kuch
(Artists - See Page 4)
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY:
Presidential Elections Of The 20th Century
By J. Mark Mutter In last month’s column of This Month In History, it was reported that our town’s public records were completely re-organized, beginning in 2006, into a singular computerized database where documents spanning several centuries are now warehoused in a
state of the art Records Center. They’re old records kept not just for the sake of keeping old records. Public records are the people’s records and they are invaluable for everyday needs - building, environmental, and land use records, and more. As luck would have it,
as part of our organization of 10,000-plus containers of documents, we stumbled upon a lot of town history, too. With Presidents’ Day coming up, here’s part two of the story of how old lost and forgotten election records and presidential histor y came together in Toms River.
An Old Dirty Basement During the course of years of work in finding, indexing, and organizing literally hundreds of thousands of separate files in old cardboard boxes that seemed to be - and were - everywhere, we were led to the basement of
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Town Hall. The building is an old residence in our downtown village built in 1902 and was purchased by the then Township Committee in 1949 to house the municipal government as our town was rapidly growing in the middle of the last century. (History - See Page 6)
─Photo courtesy Kuch family Adriana Kuch passed away February 3. By Chris Lundy BERKELEY – A vigil in memory of Adriana Kuch was attended by dozens of people who want to make sure what
happened to her never happens to anyone else. Adriana, 14, committed suicide after being attacked in school and (Adriana - See Page 5)
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