Some 60 volunteers spent the late morning and early afternoon of Oct. 9 sprucing up areas of Barnegat Township through the Adopt-A-Street program, which was launched two years ago.

Nora Hansen, a Barnegat High School junior who helped start the program, said more than 50 streets throughout town were targeted.

“We added three streets and more volunteers,” she said. “We found a lot of the usual stuff. There were cigarette butts, plastic lids, straws, plastic bags and wrappers.”

The idea for Adopt-a-Street came about after cancellation of an Earth Day cleanup in 2019 in which Hansen and a group…