Tuckerton Mayor Susan Marshall opened the May 6 municipal meeting by reading and then presenting a proclamation designating May 19 through 25 as Safe Boating Week to members of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 72, Tuckerton/Little Egg Harbor.

“The majority of boating accidents are caused by human error or insufficient education,” she noted,”and over 90 percent of boaters who lost their lives by drowning were not wearing a life jacket.”