The new year 2017 rings in the start of many new programs for the 103-year-old Southern Ocean County Chamber of Commerce, leaders say. The first event was soon to be underway at press time, the Jan. 12 “Meet Opportunity NJ,” featuring Thomas Bracken, president and CEO of the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, and Michele Siekerka, president and CEO of the New Jersey Business & Industry Association. Bracken and Siekerka are co-chairs of Opportunity NJ.

Among the earliest on the calendar is the Women in Business Roundtable on Jan.