Whether an offer from Surf City officials to purchase the Ethel A. Jacobsen Elementary School for $3 million from the local school board goes anywhere is, at the moment, anyone’s guess. What is known, though, is that two Island municipalities have sent to letters to Surf City requesting all appropriate documents in which the governing body discussed the purchase of the 1960s-era school be made available to them.

Simultaneously, the mayor of Ship Bottom sent his own letter to the Long Beach Island Consolidated Board of Education…