Eight. That’s the number of Surf City beach badge checkers who sold more than 850 daily badges this summer. Five of those sold more than 1,000 daily badges as beach revenue in the borough topped last year’s overall badge sales by $127,346. 

“It’s rare,” Councilman Pete Hartney, who oversees the borough’s beaches and environmental committee, said of even one badge checker selling a 1,000 daily badges. “We had five.”