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Vote Your View

Today, November 6, 2018 is the day to cast your vote and participate in the US Midterm Elections.

However, not everyone knows where their designated voting location is. No worries, Google is ready to help you make your vote and be counted by giving you accurate voting location information.

If you are new to the area or this is your first election that you have participated in, or it’s simply been a long time since you’ve voted.

Either way, if you need help finding your assigned voting location, there’s a simple new way to locate it.

Simply search “Where do I vote?” on Google, and you’ll be greeted with a prompt for the street address you used on your voter registration. If your Google Account has an associated home address, there’s a convenient option to quickly use that address. For the privacy concerned, Google promises that this information is exclusively used to find your voting location, and will not be stored.

4th Annual Family Fall Fest

Join the Bayside Chapel on Saturday, October 27 from 11 AM to 4 PM for our fourth annual Family Fall Fest. This is a FREE event appropriate for the whole family. Don't forget to come in costume as our Trick or Treat hallway will be back by popular demand!

Event attraction schedule:
-Costume Parades will begin at 11:30, 12:30, 1:30 and 2:30 and will end with a character dance party. Meet in the gym at above time to participate.

- Character meet/Greet! Come see some special guests, (to be announced soon) Character will be in the gym and available for photos from 12-12:30, 1-1:30, 2-2:30, 3-3:30. Characters will also lead the costume parade and participate in the dance party. Characters will arrive at 11:30 and leave the event at 3:30pm.

- All other attractions will be available for the entirety of the event, 11am-4pm. This includes, all inflatables, popcorn, cotton candy, coffee/hot chocolate bar, carnival games, Trick or Treat hallway.

- Please aim to not arrive before 10:45 in order to give us enough time to get all volunteers into place.

All items & activities are FREE!

The Bayside Chapel is located at 965 W Bay Ave Barnegat, New Jersey

For more information, call (609) 607-8323

A Plan to Protect the Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor Estuary

The Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor estuary is under threat. Suburban sprawl and over-development prompted the Governor of New Jersey in 2010 to direct the NJ Department of Environmental Protection to research and develop a protection plan for the Ocean County bay.

Citizens from the region, recreational users, commercial fisherman, activists, scientists, and land developers all shared their experiences with the NJDEP to develop a research strategy towards formulating new regulatory policies and a management plan for protecting the bay.

On Wednesday, August 15, 2018 join the Tuckerton Seaport and speaker Thomas Belton at 1:00PM during this session as it explores how his research impacted the protection and stewardship planning.

Issues of concern to the environmental regulatory agencies and the public include: nuisance jellyfish blooms, excess nutrients, the imminent closure of the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant on the bay, the benefits of marine conservation zones, and the status of the fish, crab and shellfish populations.

Noteworthy is the collection of these data before and after Superstorm Sandy came ashore at BB-LEH, and its impact on the shallow bay.

This program is part of the NJ Council for the Humanities Public Scholars Project. Speaker Thomas Belton is a Research Associate in Science Writing with the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. He is a retired Senior Scientist with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection where he served as the Research Coordinator for the Governor’s 2010-2016 Action Plan for the Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor Estuary.

His book “Protecting New Jersey’s Environment: From Cancer Alley to the New Garden State”  was named an Honor Book by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities due to its ability to take complex scientific information and put it into language and entertaining stories that everyone can understand. In his book and his lectures, he points out how people search for environmental remedies in their neighborhoods and the challenges they face that result in what Belton calls bare-knuckles environmental protection, replete with back-room political deals, infighting, criminals, and hapless victims. Belton demonstrates the ways that scientists, regulators, lobbyists, and politicians interact and offers the public a go-to guide on how to seek environmental protection in practical ways.

The Tuckerton Seaport Located at 120 West Main Street in Tuckerton, New Jersey. For more information call 609-296-8868

Annual Good Friday Fishfry

Join the Manahawkin Elks Lodge #2340, located at 520 Hilliard Blvd in Manahawkin, New Jersey on Friday, March 30, 2018 for their Annual Good Friday Fishfry.

Dangerous nor'easter targets the LBI Area

Beach erosion, high winds and coastal flooding threatens the Southern Ocean County this weekend as Winter Storm Riley is expected to hammer the New Jersey and the northeast.