To the Editor:

As someone who truly loves Beach Haven, as someone with deep roots going back several generations, as someone pleased to call this my place of birth, it saddens me deeply to experience, firsthand, such pain coming from the 101 Centre Street debacle.

For a brief moment, imagine, if you will, an old-time butcher shop where each butcher stands at his own little butcher block table, sawdust underfoot, cleaver in hand.

November 26, 2014