Tuckerton’s Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit, located at 220 East Main St. (Route 9), is celebrating the blueberry on Saturday, July 15 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., rain or shine.
Blueberries deserve a celebration. The blueberry, or more exactly, the highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corybosum), is New Jersey’s state fruit, thanks to the efforts of fourth-graders at Brick’s Veterans Memorial Elementary School in 2003 who helped push through legislation to make it official.
The folks at Holy Spirit will be selling delicious homemade blueberry pies for $16, made by a group of women who…
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