Stafford Township and Ship Bottom are being joined this year by Barnegat Light and Surf City, along with other communities in New Jersey and other states, to “Turn the Towns Teal” in September. The campaign is to alert people of the potential symptoms of ovarian cancer and encourage them to seek early diagnosis.

Area residents Arlene Morrison and Chuck Sulkowski united their efforts to bring the ovarian cancer awareness program into Ocean County last year, and after that “tremendous success,”…