To the Editor:

As a summer resident of Long Beach Township for the past 31 years, I would like to express my thoughts about the two-part bond proposal that will be voted on Sept. 26. Although I can’t vote, I feel strongly that students be merged into the Long Beach Island Grade School and the district should close the Ethel Jacobsen School in Surf City, as Ship Bottom Mayor William Huelsenbeck suggests.

It appears that the school in Ship Bottom is the obvious choice to keep open because, as Mayor Huelsenbeck points out…

August 30, 2017