A handful of the Long Beach Township Beach Patrol trekked to Osborn Avenue in Holgate on a sunny, windy day last week for a cleanup on bayfront land the municipality owns across from its new marine education field station building, which was constructed as per Mayor Joseph Mancini’s vision of a “modern fisherman’s shack,” said Angela Andersen, township sustainability coordinator, as she stood on the structure’s large, handicapped-accessible deck.

When the municipality first acquired the 127 West Osborn Ave.