TheTOMS RIVER Times Vol. 18 - No. 47
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Lavallette Police Regains Control Of Department
Nearly 400,000 Pieces Of Trash Removed From Beaches In 2022
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By Chris Lundy LAVALLETTE – The Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office had run the Lavallette Police De pa r t me nt for 10 months but they have now turned it over to Chief Christian LaCicero. When the county took it over, there was little information released. Personnel and sensitive matters like that are generally not for public consumption. Now that the department is back under local control, the Prosecutor’s Office detailed the issues in a 23-page statement. Some of problems required simple paper-
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By Alyssa Riccardi LONG BRANCH – Everything from cigarette butts to a giant 3-foot teddy bear were among the thousands of pieces of garbage collected off our beaches during Clean Ocean Action’s (COA) 2022 beach sweeps.
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The Long Branchbased environmental organization recently released their 2022 Beach Sweeps Report. Volunteers rallied together last year to pick up a total of 376,969 pieces of trash, according to the organization. (Trash - See Page 6)
April 1, 2023
work fixes. Some were deeper, including officers who weren’t given thorough background checks or fitness tests, two officers who failed the psychiatric test, the radios being down so cops would call each other on cell phones, and “meddling” from the governing body. However, leaders of the police and the borough said that what the Prosecutor called “meddling” was actually advocating for their town in the face of governmental overreach. The Prosecutor’s Office gave an overview of what deficiencies (Police - See Page 4)
Rally Draws ─Photos courtesy Clean Ocean Action Trump Supporters
Beach captains led clean-ups in Normandy Beach and other neighborhoods. (Inset): A 3-foot teddy bear was one of the more unusual items found on beaches.
County Hospitals To Join Medicaid Reimbursement Program By Bob Vosseller OCEAN COUNTY – Members of the Board of Ocean County Commissioners introduced an ordinance during their last meeting, that would establish the New Jersey County Option Hospital Fee program to aid low-income residents.
This will help increase funding for hospitals in the County. Director of the Ocean County Board of Commissioners Joseph H. Vicari said prior to the meeting that he was excited about the effort to aid low-income residents in consistently receiving proper medical care
and services at Ocean County hospitals. “It will be very beneficial,” Vicari said. “The greatest benefit of this program will be to the critically vulnerable population. This will provide the funds for essential health programs and services to mothers and children,
the elderly and all those who are low income and worry about getting important medical care.” It makes hospitals eligible for matching federal funds. Through a series of steps with the state and federal governments, the program returns almost
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double the funds to the hospitals to help assure Medicaid patients reliably receive treatment and other health care services. While not present du r ing that Board meeting, Ocean County Commissioner Virginia (Medicaid - See Page 10)
-Photo By Bob Vosseller Bayville resident Tammy Greiss waves an American flag during a Trump rally held in Toms River. By Bob Vosseller trict Attorney’s Office. TOMS RIVER – For- While his arrest turned mer President Donald out to be nothing more Trump urged his sup- than a rumor, supportporters to protest his ers still came out in pending arrest related response to that plea to an investigation by in front of the Let’s Go (Trump - See Page 7) the Manhattan Dis-
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