Krystina McNulty and her family are on Long Beach Island for vacation this week, but on a pristine sun-filled, though cool, Tuesday morning before the unofficial start of summer, they were shopping at the newly built “The Original” Ron Jon Surf Shop in Ship Bottom, which had opened earlier that same day.
“My kids love Ron Jon’s stuff. So does my husband,” McNulty said May 20 as she stood at the doors to the single-story structure located at Ninth Street and Central Avenue, having shopped…
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