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Grovers go head over heels for the Town-Wide Yard sale. 6/18/22. Paul Goldfinger photo.

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TOWN-WIDE YARD SALE   up date:

By Paul Goldfinger, Editor Blogfinger.net.   5/12/22.  Ocean Grove, NJ.

The Town-Wide Yard Sale will be held on Saturday, June 18.  We will consider the following Saturday as a rain date, but if so, you will probably have to get another permit since the current permit is good for 3 consecutive days.  If you do plan to continue your sale on Sunday, we will make note of that.  The Township did not say that Sunday was off limits.

Each address will require a “garage sale” permit which costs $5.00.  If you go to the Municipal Building be sure to tell them that you will be part of the neighborhood sale.   If you go online to Neptunetownship.org, check off the group sale.

The advantage of signing up for our list is that the group announcement will offer publicity, an online map, and an online list of addresses and items for sale.

There is no fee for joining our 11th annual sale.  Just contact Blogfinger  (Blogfinger@verizon.net.)  Note our Yard Sale tab at the top of our homepage to see the list and other info.

There will be a “Giant” Craft Show that day sponsored by the CMA and confined to Ocean Pathway.,  but that is a tourist event with thousands of visitors.

The Yard Sale will be held throughout town in our neighborhoods, and, as you know, the Yard Sale will be selling the usual potpourri of household goods, clothes, antiques, children’s items,  furniture, art work, garden items, craft supplies, tools,books, electronics, DVD.s vinyl etc. Our sale will be more fun than the giant Pathway event.

Ours is a community happening where the social opportunities to mix with Grovers are unmatched in this small town. You can enjoy biking and walking around to visit multiple sales. Come early and find parking.

It is best to arrive at yard sales early…ours begin at 9 am, although you might find bargains set out earlier than that.

b., We know about old hotels being turned into condos. but others became single family homes after demolition or fire. (sometimes suspicious.)

Recently the Aurora was turned into a 4 condo building, And now we can look forward to condos, houses and a hotel at the North End.

We heard that the Albatross was sold, but there is no further information about that.

So, in the midst of all that, we now see that 2 hotels are up for sale:  The Quaker Inn on Main Avenue and the Lillagaard on Abbott Avenue.

Quaker Inn. Lee Morgan photo.

Lillagaard Hotel. Paul Goldfinger photograph.©

The Coaster ad by ReMax skirts the issue of what might become of these two places.   For one thing, if history teaches us anything, watch out for fires, some suspicious.  And watch for more inappropriate condo conversions without parking.

We can’t expect our elected officials at the  Neptunite Township Comedy to protect us.

The ad says that these two hotels are “iconic.”  I guess they mean “historic.”  ReMax says that they offer “a solid investment with room for growth.”    “Room for growth?”   Are they serious?

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