Mayor Blaise Scibetta opened the Little Egg Harbor Township Committee meeting with a moment of silence for the family of Michael “Mikey” Browne Jr., who passed away following a tragic dirt bike accident on April 2.

Browne had been traveling alone along the Otis Bog extension of Dump Road, an unimproved road that had recently been re-gated via use of a chain and PVC pipe, according to Little Egg Harbor Police Chief James Hawkins.