To say Santa Claus is coming to town in Barnegat Light is to mean by boat – would there be any other way? It’s part of the borough’s official tree-lighting festivity, capped off with caroling.
The nautical north-end tradition continues, children on shoulders of grownups lined up at the boat ramp on West 10th Street to greet Kris Kringle as he’s ferried in by the Coast Guard. The date is always the night after Thanksgiving, which this year is Friday, Nov. 24 at 6:30 p.m.
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