The BERKELEY Times Vol. 29 - No. 5
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Golden Eagle Athlete And Scholar Takes Off
July 15, 2023
County’s 1st Recreational Cannabis Shop Opens
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Photo by Chris Lundy The Social Leaf is Ocean County’s f irst recreational cannabis shop.
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Community News Pages 8-11
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Inside The Law Page 19
Photo by Stephanie Faughnan OceanCountyProsecutor Bradley D. Billhimer at a recent presentation given to high school and college studentsaboutthedangers of bias crimes.
Hannah Lewis advances the ball toward the goal for the Central Regional High School Golden Eagles. By Chris Christopher BERKELEY - Put a lacrosse stick in Hannah Lewis’ hands and there’s excellence. Put a soccer ball at her feet and there’s excellence. Put a football in her hands and there’s excellence. Put a textbook in front of
her and there’s excellence. Put a computer in front of her and there’s excellence. By now, you probably get the idea - the recent Central Regional High School graduate is excellent in all that she does. Take lacrosse for example.
All the attack did was turn the Golden Eagles’ record book into her biography, setting school records in career points (353), single-season points (123), career goals (320), single-season goals (110), single-season ground balls (98), career ground balls
GOP Leaders Endorse Democrat Prosecutor By Stephanie Faughnan T OM S R I V E R Breaking the mold of t raditional par tisan polit ics, the Ocean County Commissioners have asked Governor Phil Murphy to reappoint Bradley D. Billhimer to a second five-year term as the county’s prosecutor. All f ive members of the Ocean County Boa rd of C om m is -
sioners are prominent Republicans; Billhimer is a Democrat. Du r ing a recent meeting, the Commissioners unanimously passed a resolution requesting Murphy to consider Billhimer’s reappoint ment. The resolution highlighted Billhimer’s commitment to justice and his efforts to address t he evolv i ng need s of Ocean County. It
praised his establishment of various community outreach programs, including Ocean County Cares and the Escape the Vape Task force, as well as his initiatives to combat the opioid epidemic. Billhimer’s work in strengthening relationships between law enforcement and the faithbased community was (GOP - See Page 5)
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(260), single-season draw controls (108) and career draw controls (289). As a senior, she added 13 assists, 87 ground balls, 90 draw controls and 39 forced turnovers. Lewis, whose freshman season was lost to the COVID-19 (Athlete - See Page 4)
By Chris Lundy BERKELEY – The first recreational cannabis store to open in Ocean County is expected to bring in tons of money for the town and give back to the community. T he So cia l L e a f opened on Route 9 in South Toms River, the first of its kind locally since New Jersey allowed the recreation-
al sale of cannabis to those 21 and older. When you walk in, someone asks you for your driver’s license to ver if y you r age. There’s a South Toms River officer working all hours and there are other security measures in place. The store had a soft opening on July 6, with the full opening on July 7. (Cannabis - See Page 5)
Bee Queen Teaches Her Subjects About Pollinators
Photo courtesy NJ Honey Queen Program
By Chris Lundy C R E A M R I D GE – T he local student known as the Honey Bee Queen is being crowned with other titles and awards for her work in studying parasites that are impacting the bee populations. Kaitlyn Culbert, a student in Toms River High School North, was presented the President’s Youth Environmental Award from the U.S.
4-H students worked at the Rutgers Cooperative Extension Bee Yard in Cream Ridge to understand the struggles facing pollinators. (Bee Queen - See Page 5)
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