“Financing the fire company is becoming an issue,” according to Barnegat Light Councilman Ed Wellington, who made an appeal at the regular borough council meeting of May 14 on behalf of the Barnegat Light Volunteer Fire Co., for which he serves as treasurer. The concern has arisen in light of the closing of the historic White’s Market, the popular spot where volunteers have long sold T-shirts and other apparel on Sunday mornings.

To make up the shortfall, according to Wellington, Mayor Kirk Larson (who was absent from the council meeting) said he…