Good News: At its 58th annual meeting in Trenton on July 30, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts awarded more than $30 million in grants to support approximately 900 arts organizations, projects and artists throughout the state – two in Southern Ocean County.

The Tuckerton Seaport’s Barnegat Bay Decoy and Baymen’s Museum (Jersey Shore Folklife Center) received $186,000 for a cosponsored project in folk and traditional arts; the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences in…