Each summer, the Long Beach Township Beach Patrol oversees 12 noncontiguous miles of ocean beach – the most, by quite a bit, of any Long Beach Island municipality. That means hiring nearly 200 lifeguards, with the hope that some will stay through the busy end of August and into September.
Not long ago, in a bid to facilitate retention, the township purchased the former Long Beach Inn, in the Beach Haven Park section of the municipality; upgraded the building; and began to house members of the…
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