The pre-summer season on Long Beach Island is here, emerging from the bleakness of a pandemic that has blanketed the country for more than two months. With the annual seasonal adjustments, like traffic signals being returned to fully functioning from blinking, there are other changes this year.  

In Surf City, Mayor Francis Hodgson said some of those changes will be seen on the borough’s beaches, which were never closed during the public health emergency that prompted a full beach closure in Ship…