The BERKELEY Times Vol. 28 - No. 49
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May 20, 2023
Work Begins
On Township Solar Farm By Chris Lundy 40 acre site. It’s behind BERKELEY – Today, the Public Works buildit looks pretty barren. ing on Pinewald-KesJust dunes of dirt that wick Road in Bayville. stretch farther back into You can’t see it from the woods than you the road so you wouldn’t could ever imagine. know just how expanBefore that, though, it sive it is back there. was even worse – it was It looks like a desert a landfill. It’s the future, somehow surrounded however, that’s looking by pines. Right now, bright. heavy vehicles are movThe township’s munic- ing the dirt and getting ipal landfill hasn’t been the site ready. used in quite some time The landfill closed but it was never properly about 50 years ago in capped. Now, a com- 1974, Mayor Carmen pany is going to come Amato said. But it was in, cap the landfill, and never properly capped build a solar field over it. because the process costs To give a sense of the millions. enormity of the project, “That’s why past this is an approximately (Solar - See Page 4)
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Heavy machinery is preparing the ground for an eventual solar field.
NEIGHBORS ANGRY ABOUT CONDO PLAN
By Chris Lundy BERKELEY – Neighbors said that “Dream Homes at the Pines” will be a nightmare for them. The condo complex will be situated on 2.3 acres at the intersection of Louis Avenue and Orchard Avenue, fronting Ocean Gate
Local WWII Hero Honored In Biography Turnpike. It is zoned very quiet with people for multi-family homes. It will be built by local developer Dream Homes. Nearby resident Joanne Hannemann came to a recent Township Council meeting urging them to stop the development. She said that the neighborhood is
taking walks through the woods and that would all be destroyed with a condo complex moving in. “When you’re walking, all you hear is birds and the sounds of nature and it takes you to another place,” she (Condo - See Page 5)
By Mark Bator TOMS RIVER - The extraordinary life and times of an under-appreciated World War II hero was the subject of a question-and-answer session with author Steven M. Gillon at the George P. Vanderveer American Legion Post
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129. Gillon, a history professor at the University of Oklahoma, entertained those in attendance and provided insight regarding his latest book, “Len Lomell: D-Day Hero.” In addition to Lomell’s wife, Renee, many of (Hero - See Page 6)
─Photo by Mark Bator On display were personal photos, including these of Len Lomell and his wife, Renee, as they appeared during WWII.
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