When resident Nancy Henderson stepped up to the microphone in Ship Bottom’s meeting room last week, she had news to share about the LBI Grade School and asked questions she sought clarification on from borough officials.

Her announcement that the LBI Consolidated Board of Education was, in her words, “actively negotiating the sale of the LBI Grade School,” located three blocks south of borough hall, was met with a mixed reaction of eye-opening and nonplussed awareness from the governing body.