While federal, state and local officials gather for the Causeway rehabilitation and expansion ribbon cuttingon May 22marking the official reopening of the only entrance and exit road to Long Beach Island, there are few who will be happier about the ceremony than local residents and workers who have waited nearly six years for the project to get to this point.

The ceremony is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. at the west end of East Bay Avenue in Stafford Township.