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Sign up NOW for the June 27, 2026 Ocean GroveTown-Wide yard sales.  Contact us  (Eileen and Paul Goldfinger)   by email;      Blogfinger@verizon.net.  No rain date.

Pick up flyers at our porch 113 Mt. Hermon Way at Delaware Ave.   Help us promote this “for the people” event in its 15th year.    Bring some to merchants to place in windows.  Place flyers  on your home.  Please take some flyers  and take a walk downtown.  We will advertise in Coaster, APP, Next Door and Facebook,

By Eileen and Paul Goldfinger, Editors, Blogfinger.net.    Contact:   Blogfinger@verizon.net.   

(Name will not web posted unless the seller wants that.).  Send us your lists of sale  items at any time…You can send updates until June 26.

From now until the sales, we will have this Blogfinger post  in place,  and this is  where we will communicate information and this is where we will begin posting “THE LIST.” which  will contain the addresses of all participants  including cross streets and, eventually  items for sale.  We will post the “LIST”  here and add new addresses as they come in to  Blogfinger@verizon.net .

New participants will be added to “The List”  as the addresses arrive to us from now through June 26.   Tell your friends visit  Blogfinger.net to find basic information. 

Send us your sign-up now  and add your items for sale  whenever you wish.  We will save the item “List”  until 1-2 weeks before.  We don’t want early birds knocking  on your doors.

Only addresses and, later,  sale items will be on the list.  The latter will be revealed about one week before touch down.We will not post your. name .

We are leaving this post here until June 27  so that those who go to Blogfinger.net for yard-sale information will not get lost.   The content of this post will vary until the sale.

About parking it should be OK. If you drive into town, bring a bike and park anywhere.

This an Ocean Grove event run by We-The-People,  and we expect that mostly Grovers will show up as before, but out-of-towners are always welcome to our historic town .  Bring the kids, the dogs, your band, or your saxophone or  flugelhorn.    Have music at your sale.

Sellers will need a Neptune Township yard sale permit for $5.00. Get them at the Neptune Township Town Hall-building dept.    Tell them that you are with the band.

Seller groups of neighbors or friends will enhance the success, fun and games.   We can use some volunteer citizen reporters  with bikes who could monitor and photograph  the sales and report back to the Blogfinger headquarters.

This post will be evolving, so stay tuned.

Eileen and Paul Goldfinger. Editors at Blogfinger.net

PAUL McCARTNEY.   “JUNK”

A rendering of the Casino which will feature the Stone Pony Summer Stage, shops and more. OG is not shown to the south. What will that “more” become?  OG needs to plan. Image from the Tri City News. 4/13/23.

The view of the Casino from the Asbury side. Imagine what it will all look like with the current OG North End planned project stuck next to it on the other side.  Will  the NERP look ridiculous?    From the Tri-City New

By  Paul Goldfinger, Editor Blogfinger.net

Source for this article.  The Tri City News.    4/13/23

Well, the cat’s out of the bag, and Neptune Township needs to figure out how to protect Ocean Grove from this incredibly ambitious concept on the Asbury side including the Casino and its surroundings.  Remember, Asbury owns the entire Casino and a portion of the boardwalk on the OG side.

This massive proposition will likely render the North End Redevelopment  Plan null and void for a number of reasons including that there is no rational argument* now to justify the redevelopment  zoning changes on the OG side that would have turned our North End into a congested commercial area.  The AP side will be a massive  piece of real estate and  there is now no  rationale to give the OG developers permission to have special zoning*.  Their plan won’t fit.   Would you want to live there?

Aside from the plans for Convention Hall at the AP north end, the south located Casino side will  have a state-of-the-art  Stone Pony  Summer Stage with  an outdoor amphitheater for 5,000.  And Convention Hall will become a 3,500 seat concert hall.

According  to the Tri City News, a developer on the AP side said, “The end game is to have one of the most incredible world-class destinations for everything:  music, art, and other entertainment.”

The Casino project will cost an undisclosed millions of dollars

Pick up this week’s Tri City News for details, but their piece doesn’t even mention Ocean Grove.

Neptune Township should immediately appoint a commission consisting of Grover residents and the one  big player in town—the CMA.   OGNED can do its own juggling.  Neptune must put a halt to the current North End Redevelopment Plan which should immediately be revoked as it should have been years ago, and think about what will be best for  Ocean Grove looking into the future.

My opinion is that the Master Plan for OG should be reconsidered to solidify our town as “historic small town America” and to  maintain our distance physically and culturally from the amazingly  ambitious A. Park.

We should turn that entire North End property into a park with lots of trees.  We should be known in the region as a town of history, neighborhoods, local artists, and local arts and culture.

We should frame ourselves as not a place for exploitive tourism or religiosity, but a place for families, diversity, local color, fresh air, scenic beauty and comfortable and affordable  places to live.   Short term rentals need to be discouraged, because all those ambitious plans to our north will put unbelievable pressure on OG parking, places to stay,  and home prices. How will we remain a town where families will want to live?  And finally cancel all giant events like Flea Markets.  That’s how Bradley Beach maintains its personality without excessive tourism.

And, what evils will these AP projects send our way?

*There never was a rational argument that would have justified turning the North End into a “Zone in Need of Redevelopment.”

GERALD PRICE:  From the off Broadway cast of the Threepenny  Opera:  “The Ballad of Mack the Knife.”