The BERKELEY Times Vol. 31 - No. 24
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Donations Roll In For “Share The Joy”
December 6, 2025
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Photo by Chris Lundy The Tunnel To Towers veterans housing development is being built on Route 9.
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Inside The Law
Photo by Chris Lundy Promotion assistants Adrianna Fragulis, left, and Marissa Spencer stock donated items. By Chris Lundy TOMS RIVER – People were doing their Christmas shopping at the ShopRite on Fischer Boulevard. They were buying a little extra food and giving it to people in need. This is the location of WJRZ’s annual “Share The Joy” collection drive. They set up a stage and broadcast from the parking lot, while filling a Pepsi truck with donations. Every year, they collect: • Non-perishable food items and frozen turkeys for Fulfill Monmouth and Ocean’s Toms River Pantry (Donations - See Page 4)
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VETERAN & FIRST RESPONDER
DISCOUNTS OFFERED
(Veterans Homes - See Page 4)
Students Cook Thousands Of Thanksgiving Meals
Police Seek Comments On Standards By Chris Lundy BEACHWOOD – The borough police department is welcoming feedback on whether they meet the best practices of law enforcement as part of their assessment program. Assessors from New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police will be in town on Monday, December 15 to examine all aspects of Beachwood Police Department’s policies and procedures, management, operations, and support services. The NJSACOP has a list of criteria that are known to increase safety, efficiency and public trust. Departments throughout the
By Chris Lundy BERKELEY – Ground has already been broken, and the dirt has been moved around, but people driving by want to know when they’ll see the first homes at the Tunnel To Towers development. There will be 99 apartments and 25 small houses deed restricted for veterans at 359 Atlantic City Boulevard (Route 9). The property will also have a common area for the veterans to get care they need, such as behavioral health, legal services, and peer support. Anything not directly provided by Tunnel To Towers will be available through partnerships with local caregivers. Mayor John Bacchione said at the most recent Township Council meeting that Tunnel To Towers officials give updates every week to the
By Chris Lundy OCEAN COUNTY - Combine the hustle of a high school and the bustle of a restaurant and that’s what you have when culinary arts students prepared thousands of Thanksgiving meals for the needy. On the Monday before the holiday, students were separating turkey they had already cooked into portions, adding green beans and scoops of mashed potatoes. A few dozen kids took part in this assembly line, ending Photo courtesy OCVTS with the meals being put in containers in a walk-in refrigerator, ready for Culinary students at the Ocean pick-up and delivery. County Vocational Technical School This Feed The Need tradition is carried on every year at the Ocean (Meals - See Page 5) prepare Thanksgiving meals.
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