In one room on Jan. 8, business people learned updates on all sorts of projects around them: Beach Haven trying for trolleys by summer, Causeway circle changing to a square traffic pattern by 2024, possible local connections to an offshore wind farm. The place was State of the Chamber 2020, Southern Ocean County Chamber of Commerce’s annual business event that shares impactful issues affecting the regional economic community.

See The SandPaper, this issue and online, for separate close-ups on the above topics.