Santa Claus is making a special trip to Ship Bottom this holiday season, arriving Nov. 26 for the lighting of the town’s 17-foot Christmas tree at the boat ramp.
“It’s just a plain, old, regular Christmas tree,” said Councilman Joe Valyo when asked about the type of tree. “It’s an old-fashioned New Jersey Christmas pine.”
The borough’s Department of Public Works offloaded the tree the morning of Nov. 18, placing it at the boat ramp.
“It’s big, very big,” Valyo said of the tree, which came from Dittmer’s Landscaping in New Egypt.
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