Cover your bad eye and read this article.
Blogfinger gets the scoops that APP usually misses. Eileen Goldfinger photo. Pilgrim Pathway. OG.
APP photo on the OG beach. They love the OG girls in their summer clothes. They took 50 shots that day on the OG beach. 2022.
Paul Goldfinger, Editor Blogfinger.net.
The APP usually ignores Ocean Grove unless there is something big: Like the headline “Headless body found in topless bar. ” *NY Post.
But now it seems that the Press has hired a reporter who will write about OG news. His name is Charles Daye.
APP: “Charles Daye is the Metro Reporter for Asbury Park and Neptune Township, with a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion. @CharlesDayeAPP on Twitter/ Contact him: CDaye@gannettnj.com”
In an April edition of APP he had 3 Ocean Grove articles and he does good work.:
a. “The Camp Meeting Association’s standoff with the state over its beach-access policy is a fight that has divided the town, the latest battle in a long history that has seen the Methodist group that owns the land clash with secular state government as it seeks to hang on to what it says is its mission: “build and maintain a beautiful seaside community to serve as a place for meditation, reflection and renewal.”
So the planned court hearing about the beach closures was postponed until a conference on 5/16. It was supposed to be the CMA vs NJ DEP which has been threatening to punish the CMA unless they end the Sunday closings. You can search Blogfinger about this. They may not resolve in time for Memorial Day weekend. Then what?? Come on Sunday May 26 , 10 am, to watch the Dingbat Show on the boards by the pier.
b. “The Monmouth County Board of Taxation is looking into the tax assessments of Ocean Grove and the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association following a report released by a local nonprofit organization* that highlighted tax advantages enjoyed by the association.
“Last month, the nonprofit activist group Neptune United* released a report arguing properties owned by the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association are generally assessed at a lower value for property taxes compared with similar properties owned by other taxpayers.”
c. “North End plan adopted by Neptune”
OK. Help is on the way for all the news that’s fit to print in Ocean Grove. Forget that useless Tri City News. (On Passover it’s called Tri City Jews)
APP theme: Big Bird from Sesame Street.