The morning of Tuesday, Feb. 24, “a seal showed up in Harvey Cedars,” said Mayor John Imperiale. This seal, though, was not on the beach, but in the middle of Long Beach Boulevard. Borough worker Doug Lewinski wrapped her in his jacket to carry her from the Boulevard to Middlesex Avenue, and police officer Daniel Grundtisch called the Marine Mammal Stranding Center, located in Brigantine.

According to the center, Grundtisch and the borough’s department of public works then “closed the road as she napped in…