When the unofficial start of summer arrived last month, it dawned with a little bit of 2020 mixed with some remnants of 2019 and a lot of fingers crossed that COVID-19 numbers were on the decline for good as Gov. Phil Murphy lifted the public health emergency he declared had more than a year ago. A majority of the governor’s executive orders will expire on July 4, but some ended earlier this month.

“This summer has never been experienced before,” Harvey Cedars Police Chief Robert Burnaford said last week at the…