Flushed The Atlantic Highlands Water Department will be flushing fire hydrants from Sunday, August 11 through Thursday, August 15, during the overnight hours of 10:00 PM to early morning.
During this time, residents will experience low water pressure and possible water discoloration. To minimize inconvenience:
• Avoid using water during flushing hours.
• If discoloration occurs, run only your cold water for at least 20 minutes until it clears.
Do not run hot water, as this may cause sediment to settle in your water heater and extend the discoloration issue.
If water issues persist, please contact the Water Department at:
(732) 291-0027 or (732) 291-1444 ext. 3701
Municipal leaders also strongly recommending residents sign up for the Borough of Atlantic Highlands Reverse 911 Emergency Notification System at www.ahnj.comunder “Emergency Notification System Add/Remove Yourself” to receive future alerts.
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Call it a FunRaiser, call it a FUND Raiser, either way, it’s bound to be a unique and entertaining event at Mother Teresa School and St. Agnes Thrift Shop Sunday, August 17 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m
The Atlantic Highlands based Peace Pointe, a non-profit organization, welcomes all animal rescue and conservation vegan or plant-based businesses, to join in their aim to make the connection between animal advocacy, animal rescue, and plant-based living. Peace Pointe intends to build a cruelty-free animal rescue, while promoting earth-friendly actions such as gardening for wildlife, service in our local communities to clean up or preserve remaining natural spaces, promote local vegan businesses and fellow non-profit rescues.
The organization, headed by Zack Brown and Morgan Spicer, welcomes all animal rescue & conservation non-profit groups to join their efforts.
During the all-afternoon Sunday event, the FunRaiser will feature a broad variety of events from locally created food varieties day of events from locally created food varieties and art works for sale to an opportunity to purchase a variety of handmade items by local vendors.
The day also ensures the opportunity to meet a variety of adoptable animals!
Attendees can meet adoptable animals in the gym, eat in the cafeteria on August 17, and shop with local artists, vendors and craftsman in support of local non profit agencies and animal sanctuaries.
Parking is free and centrally located for walking as well, with a full agenda for the day including yoga and a Native Plant Q&A, for an opportunity to learn more about which plants and trees are best both for the environment and for esthetics in this area of the Bayshore.
There will also bee arts and crafts offered at no charge for children, and even a CPR lesson with EMTs from the Atlantic Highlands First Aid Squad.
Adoptable animals from Louie’s Legacy, Fur Friends In Need, Wild Exotics Animal Rescue, Luv Furever Animal Rescue & Small and Furry Rescue are all involved in the day long opportunity for rest, relaxation, education and protection for animals.
Promoters of the event are asking for $5 donations upon entry for all persons over 12 years old. There are no charges for the arts and crafts activities for children.
Coop It was April of 1966 when the Atlantic Highlands Journal covered the story highlighting how hardworking, helpful, and enveloping is the work of the Highlands Fire Department.
The story started
“And some people think all firemen do is put out fires…”
It continued:
Shortly before 6 p.m. Wednesday night, police received a call that a pigeon was caught in a tree on Washington Avenue.
Firemen were summoned, and answered the call with a ladder truck. More than half a dozen men responded to the call and went to the scene.
There a pigeon was dangling, head down, from a branch of a tree approximately thirty-five feet above ground. It had evidently gotten its feet caught in some fishing line, and the line caught on one of the branches.
While fireman Bob Mazzacco climbed the ladder with a pole to free the line, Harold Foley and Jim Smith, in true lifesaving fashion, held a fire jacket spread below to catch the freed bird when it fell. The bird, though a bit ruffled, will live to fly again! And fire men can add another item to the extent of services they provide.
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Chainsaw In the end, it may have all started with a mistake by the fence company, but it’s caused the loss of a tree to the distress of local residents, and an un-neighborly dispute between two neighbors.
Ralph Paredes lives at 11 Third Avenue, a home he purchased some 23 years ago. Steven Pearson and his wife live at 1 Third Avenue, a home they purchased about a year ago, moving to the borough from Summit
Both homes are gracious, well-maintained, and the absolute pride of their owners. Because both homes front on Third Avenue and the Pearson property is on the corner of Ocean Blvd, it’s side yards that the neighbors share.
At one time, there was a cyclone fence separating their properties That was later taken down and replaced with an approximate five-foot-high wooden fence.
Like many homes in the borough, the Paredes yard is lush with trees, both for their beauty and the shade they provide. Their maple tree which abuts the fence has grown healthfully over decades and is statuesque in the neighborhood. But it apparently had a bough that grew from ground level closer to the fence.
The Pearsons, in their efforts to continue the appearance of the neighborhood, wanted to replace the wooden fence with a six-foot-high white vinyl fence. The Paredes agreed, and the neighbors talked about it.
However, last month it came as a shock to Mr. Paredes when he heard a chain saw in his backyard the day he knew the fence was being installed. Rushing out the back door, he saw his tree, the tall maple, was cut close to the base, saw blade going deep enough to ensure the death of the maple.
But since damage was already done, and it was apparent the tree could no longer be healthy, Mr. Paredes also agreed the Pearsons could cut the tree trunk to ground level and replace the ground cover maintaining the beauty of his yard.
But there was another problem. That chain link fence that had first divided the properties? The maple had grown around it, which meant there were metal pieces within the trunk of the tree, something that would damage a chain saw for certain.
So this week, a month after the initial work began, the new white fence is up and beautiful, the grand maple is gone save for its ugly slashed trunk and neither neighbor is happy.
The Pearsons had agreed to replace the tree with another one of their choice someplace else on the Pearson property. The Paredes selected a six- to eight-foot-tall red Japanese maple, perhaps not quite that tall but has since been planted in the Paredes’ yard, a far distance from the white fence between the properties.
The Paredes are upset, as are other tree lovers in town. The slashed trunk and hunk of the low growing bough are there, reminders of the neighborly disagreement and an ugly site to all on their side of the fence.
The Pearsons agree it is the fence company that erred in cutting the tree in the first place. Yet they have not taken any action against them, Pearson telling VeniVidiScripto “it’s my business how I want to handle that.”
Both Mr. and Mrs. Pearson lament that all this has happened and lament the disagreement with their neighbor. But they feel they have done everything they could and whether they choose to do anything with the person or company who apparently created the situation is something they did not care to discuss. They have, or plan to purchase, many more trees for the back side of their property, to shield their home from the apartments on Ocean Blvd that back up to the rear of their property.
The Paredes aren’t happy with the small Japanese maple that will take years to grow to any formidable size and create the aura they image for their year yard. They distress every time they go out their back door or into the yard seeing the sliced trunk of what was once a healthy maple on one side of their property.
It’s difficult to get over the cutting and killing of a tree on your own property without permission.
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Local historian Muriel J. Smith will be the guest speaker on the Sunset Cruise, highlighting some of the unusual stories of history focusing on Atlantic Highlands and its people from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Guests are invited to be at the pier from 4:15 for boarding before Captain Dan Shaade, First Mate Vicky and crew leave the dock at precisely 5 p.m. to cruise up the Shrewsbury River.
“This is our first sunset cruise aboard the Navesink Queen,” Society president Lynn Petillo said, “and we are all excited about it. This is the 13th year we have offered cruises as one of our major fund-raising events. Having an evening cruise and sailing aboard the Navesink Queen will give our guests the opportunity for spectacular views while learning some of the “gossip” and rarely told stories about Atlantic Highlands, its people and our neighbors along the river. It’s kind of a lucky 13 cruise we are all excited about.”
Funds raised by the Society maintain the historic Strauss Mansion at the top of East Mount Avenue at Prospect Circle, the Society’s home and location for numerous other events including the popular concerts and Porch Suppers.
Tickets for the cruise are available by visiting Atlantic Highlands History.org in their gift shop category, or by e-mailing AtlanticHighlandsHistoricalInfo @gmail.com.
The cruise is limited to persons 16 years of age and older. The $80 tickets include a light repast provided by the Historical Society. The Navesink Queen’s Bar will be open for all travelers to make their own purchase of both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages .
No food or beverages are permitted to be brought aboard the boat.
Smith, a journalist and the author of several books including history books concerning people and places in the Bayshore, will speak on the popularity of businesses and locations in the borough during Prohibition, as well as highlight some of the criminal activities that occurred during that busy time in Atlantic Highlands.
She will also talk on the King of Bootleggers, the former zoo on Ocean Blvd together with the fire that destroyed the Log Cabin Inn as well as Tinker West’s stories about all the concerns before Eastpointe was built. The author will also highlight some stories of local residents who fought in World War II and brought honors to the borough with their heroism and successful return home after the war.
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With all the Naval bases in the Norfolk area, the magnificence of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, the campgrounds, spectacular seashore and even a concrete three-mile-long boardwalk, Norfolk still has so much more to offer in the area of entertainment, education, and sheer beauty.
You get all that at Norfolk Botanical Gardens, the largest botanical gardens in the state of Virginia and one of the finest and most diverse in the country.
And it all started with azaleas.
Back in the mid-1930s, the city’s, city manager, Thomas Thompson got the idea for the gardens along with a horticulturist, Frederic Heutte.
Heute had a special fondness for azaleas and thought the Hampton Roads area was perfect in every way for growing them. The city manager thought a garden in Hampton Roads could vie for all the tourists visiting the gardens in Charleston South Carolina. So azaleas it was.
The city set aside 75 acres of land in Norfolk and another 75 acres of Little Creek Reservoir and Norfolk Botanical Garden was planted.
It was Depression time as well, and politicians working together managed to secure a $75,000 WPA grant. The Works Progress Administration was an American New Deal agency that employed job seekers to carry out public works projects from roads and public buildings to, well, yes, gardens. An Azlea Garden project to be exact.
The city had earned other WPA projects and most of the available men were already at work at those projects, so the WPA offered the grant for the 20 men and 200 African American women who were then assigned to build he garden project. There is a section of the Gardens and a statue honoring the women who built the Gardens.
And work they did, first by clearing the heavy vegetation on the property and hauling out all the dirt to build a levee for the lake. Going rate of salary was a quarter an hour and more than 150 truckloads of dirt were moved.
Next came clearing underbrush and getting healthy soil ready for planting. By the beginning of the 1930s, the Botanical Gardens were home for 4,000 azalea plants, 2,000 rhododendrons and thousands more shrubs, trees and daffodils. When the local Congressman secured another $140,000 for the Garden, the Old Dominion Horticultural Society offered volunteer labor to keep everything going. By the early 1940s, there were about 5,000 azaleas blooming, along with five miles of walking trails spreading over 75,000 areas of landscaping.
Ever since, there have been improvements, expansions, more volunteers, making progress and teaching natives and visitors alike how incredibly special horticulture can be. Along the way, the name got changed from Azalea Gardens to Norfolk Municipal Gardens, then the gardens became the setting for the International Azalea Festival; the Old Dominion Horticultural Society took over maintenance and changed the name to Norfolk Botanical Garden.
Since then, the Garden has expanded to include dozens of ‘specialty gardens displaying magnificent varieties of flowers related in specific ways. The Japanese Garden, a broad area with footpaths and ponds to cross, is filled with flowers, trees and shrubbery native to Japan, all identified by tags mounted in the ground; the Desert Plant Garden has more varieties of plants that you can count, the Rose Garden overflowing with all varieties of the flower, there are gardens devoted to each of the four seasons, the Children’s Garden where youngsters can touch, smell and taste edible plants and splash in the fountains.
There are sunken gardens, a butterfly garden, a hummingbird garden, a Sculpture Garden and a Healing Garden to introduce visitors to plants with healing properties as well as to provide a peaceful haven of rest and healing. The garden features medicinal plants, a stream and pools, encouraging visitors to rest a while even while touring this very restful environment. Altogether, there are more than 60 different massive areas of specialty blooms and trees, annual and perennial flowers spread over 175 acres.
Yet it was two “non-garden sites that were most impressive and memorable for me. One garden is dense woods, aged trees stretching to the sky, underbrush so thick you couldn’t walk through, an area of more shadows than sunshine. That, the guide said, was what the first visitors to the area got to see hundreds of years ago.
It made you think of women and children seeing this as their new home when they got off the boat after months of traveling across the ocean, seasick days, little food and hopes for a new life in a new land. It was stark enough to make you appreciate what our forefathers faced when they left their families and homeland and settled and established a new homeland of their own.
The second unique facet of the Gardens visit was the shock of seeing Norfolk International Airport as the direct neighbor of the Botanical Gardens and both enjoying the relationship.
At the outskirts of the Botanical Gardens, visitors are encouraged to climb the short hill to a landscaped viewpoint directly adjacent to the runways of the airport. To make it even better, there are speakers at the site so visitors can stand on the berm, watch the planes and hear the interaction between pilot and tower. You’re even close enough so you can see, when you wave to a departing pilot in his Southwest plane, he even waves back!
As wonderful as the Botanical Gardens are, there’s plenty of room for improvement. The open-air bus that runs through many of the areas runs on the hour and is about 45 minutes long; it should be a must for everyone to take, preferably before venturing out on their own. The names of the plants should be morr clearly identified within a group of distinct species; so each can be separated from the other and clearly identified and the park map for walking should be clearer.
Regardless, it’s a wonderful way to spend a few hours or an entire day, an island of serenity and quite in an area where jet planes and helicopters dominate the sky.
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Virginia Beach, Virginia offers everything for long vacations, one day visits and anything in between, filled with museums, both military and historical, botanical garden that is both gorgeous and educational, all kinds of oceanfront and on the water activities from fishing to parasailing, and a concrete three mile long boardwalk that everyone from moms pushing bay strollers to runners or skateboarders find perfect for exercise or simply getting around.
The boardwalk itself is dominated by King Neptune, a 34-foot-high bronze statue of the Roman God of the Sea. Cast in China about 20 years ago, it is made of 80 tons of clay cast with 25 tons of plaster and another three and a half tons of stainless steel. The massive statue sits regally among another 100,000 pounds of rock between the boardwalk and the ocean beach.
It was constructed entirely with private contributions with Neptune Festival, the non-profit organization that stages the Neptune Festival each September. This year’s event, beginning September 26, will feature more than 20 performances by local and national bands on two distinct stages, together with more than 200 artisans with handmade works for Neptune’s Arts& Crafts Show and another more than 200 food vendors and everything else over the 33 blocks of the sidewalk. There’s also a Sand sculpting championship contest, a race, tournaments, Poseidon’s Playground and a regatta.
Clearly, Neptune, or Poseidon for those who prefer the Greek God of the Sea, is a popular meeting place and photographer’s delight at the corner of 31st street and the Boardwalk.
Paul DiPasquale, a resident of Richmond, Virginia, is the artist who created the massive statue; he was selected after a national search for an artist to design the protector and symbol of the Virginia Beach waterfront. DiPasquale, who earned his master’s in art from Virginia Commonwealth Community College, has been an instructor and both resident and visiting artists in Virginia, Maryland, Rome, Paris, the University of William and Mary and numerous other venues. His Arthur Ashe statue in bronze is on Richmond’s famed Monument Avenue. The artist has earned recognition for his intuitive and insightful work in numerous areas and continues to work and live in Richmond.
Constructed entirely through the generosity of private contributions gathered by the Neptune Festival, this statue is dedicated to the city of Virginia Beach and its citizens. Surrounded by the creatures of his realm, mighty trident in hand, Neptune’s gaze rests affectionately on the shore. His heroic visage honors the maritime legacy of Virginia Beach while also standing as a vivid reminder of the community’s duty to respect and protect our natural blessings.
Navy Lt. (Jg) Angus “Beef” Yeoman of Bayville brings his visitors to see Virginia Beach’s classic Neptune. The officer is stationed at Naval Air Station Norfolk as a helicopter pilot. He is a graduate of Donovan Catholic High School and the University of South Carolina.
Neptune is probably the most photographed statue in all of Virginia, with visitors and residents alike following the tradition of having their photo taken in front of it or reaching for the 11-foot-long loggerhead turtle he holds in his massive hand. Two dolphins, both 15 feet or larger in size, are on the massive rocks that surround the statue and an eight-foot octopus with rolled up arms all remind visitors of the wealth of diversion beneath the sea.
Because of its popularity, the city has several benches along the boardwalk for folks to meet and where strangers strike up conversations simply to share their awe and stories about Neptune, or Poseidon.
Navy Lt. (Jg) Angus Yeoman of Bayville brings his visitors to see Virginia Beach’s classic Neptune. The officer is stationed at Naval Air Station Norfolk as a helicopter pilot. He is a graduate of Donavan High School and the University of South Carolina.
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Spending three days in Norfolk, Virginia is a great thing any time. Spending it with a grandson recently stationed there as a Naval helicopter pilot makes it truly special and even a lot more fun. And traveling the six hours by car with my daughter means fun and games, as well as education, start as soon as you get in the car.
Lieutenant (junior grade) Angus “Beef” Yeoman with his parents Tracie and Chris Yeoman
It’s an easy route to Norfolk from Monmouth County, traveling to the Delaware Memorial Bridge, through the length of Delaware to Maryland a short piece, . then into Virginia, and the magnificent Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. Once across the Chesapeake Bay, you are pretty much in the middle of the Navy presence in this part of Viriginia, with Naval Station Norfolk, Naval Air Station Oceana and Joint Expeditionary Force Little Creek Fort Story in large part much responsible for all the apartments, shops, and activities in this part of Virginia.
Virginia Beach has always been a great vacation area in the summer along with Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge and is just a short distance from all the naval bases.
My Daughter Commander Tracie Smith-Yeoman United States Navy (ret.)
Right from the start, my daughter Tracie made the trip special and memorable.
When our youngsters were young, we took numerous camping trips all around the United States, from Maine to New Mexico, it was a tradition that each of the four got a small gift as we entered each state. But they only got the gift after they had given me three facts about the state we were entering, or some facts about the state we just left that they learned on the way. The gifts were generally little puzzles, books or snacks, and the practice was routine throughout their growing up years.
Tracie remembered those trips and did the same for me! Though she did not insist on my giving her facts about each state, as we crossed the borders and saw the Welcome to…. signs, she handed me a wrapped gift.
So by the time I got to Virginia, I had a new book and pens for my never ending habit of keeping notes, a pair of sunglasses because I inadvertently lose mine so many times, and a bag of sweet and savory Trail Mix of peanuts, pretzels, and almonds which has instantly become a favorite snack food.
Aside from the good fortune of enjoying spectacular weather the entire time, temps in the 70s with no humidity and sunny skies with puffy white clouds, it was also great to see the amount of open space still surrounding the highways in much of Delaware, something, like New Jersey, bound to change when people realize the benefits of living in the First State. For now, the forests of pine trees and rows of corn fields are signs that not everything has been concrete-covered and towns overbuilt.
Crossing the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel is an incredible experience no matter how many times you do it. Seeing the bridge in front of you from the northern side that appears to end abruptly in the middle of the Bay, then seeing another bridge further south on another man made island is enough to make you wonder. Traveling it you understand.
The bridge was built in 1964 with the tunnels built on man made islands to ensure ships can pass through the Bay and out to the ocean. The bridge itself from Delmarva to Hampton Roads is 17 and a half mile long, including the two tunnels, each about a mile in length. The Bay Bridge is the largest one of only 14 bay bridges in the world, three of which are in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
It’s said it took seven different engineering marvels to create it.
Judging from all of that, and knowing the tunnel costs in the New York area, it’s a surprise that the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel only costs $20 to cross, with additional discounts for a return trip in a specific number of days, and off season travel. A real bargain by anyone’s standards.
The restaurant and parking area midway across the bridge is closed at this time for construction of yet an expansion to the highway.
Once on the Virginia side of the bridge, it was a short drive to my grandson’s apartment and an introduction to how spectacular apartments are in the area and the fact that a Naval officer can certainly enjoy better accommodations than the enlisted sailor in a barracks.
Dinner was at Stony’s, one of several terrific restaurants Angus had already discovered in his two months since he was transferred from Pensacola, Florida to Virginia. And casual conversation, as it usually dies, was proof that it truly is a small world. The Stony’s who own this restaurant with outdoor dining right on a gorgeous marina, are Stony and Laura Johnson, formerly from South Orange where they owned their restaurant for a quarter of a century before moving to Virginia, Stony was trained at Johnson & Wales Culinary University had run in several restaurants before opening Stony’s in South Orange decades ago But they fell in love with the Eastern Shore and saw the need for a great restaurant in the area when they visited their daughter and son-in-law who was stationed with the Navy aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt. That was six years ago and Stony’s has been a popular ding spot since then.
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Cousins When a young cousin looks up with pride to his older cousin, a helicopter pilot in the Navy, and when the younger cousin goes to a terrifically patriotic and innovative school like John F. Kennedy Elementary School in South Plainfield where his mom is one of the teachers who keeps this school outstanding, good things happen for military men and women.
It was fourth graders at the school who organized and prepped the idea of sending packages to individual service members, with each of the grades from kindergarten to fourth selecting a military man or woman to treat.
Several months ago, Jamie McNamee, a teacher at the school, sent a letter home to the parents of each of the children in the K through 4th grades at the school, asking for the names and locations of all family members who were actively serving in the military.
Jamie’s letter was totally endorsed by both principal Dr. Kevin Hajduk and student council advisor Jessica Stevens. Jamie’s actions are in keeping with Hajduk’s leadership that emphasizes American history as a major part of education together with recognition of all those who serve. The entire school participates in daylong activities on Veterans Day and other times throughout the year, encouraging students to invite their military family members to participate and speak with the students.
For this project, five students had military members currently serving, and each of the classes ‘adopted’ one military member. The entire school participated in the remembrance of the five military members.
Stevens, described McNamee “”she is truly an amazing asset to the school ,” then, with the help of other student council and advisors, she organized and prepared the idea.
Students from all grades created cards and individualized them to each service member, all of whom were in some way related to a Kennedy student or staff member.
The student council, comprised of 20 students in the fourth grade, used the school website to sign up venues and suggest ideas to facilitate donations. Parents signed up for donations and sent their packages to Jamie, the second grade teacher. Jamie then sorted the huge variety of gifts, evenly distributing them among the five classrooms. Students then prepared each of the boxes, and with the help of their teacher and advisor, sent the boxes along with personal letters to the military members.
Each of the boxes contained shampoo, conditioner, body wash, deodorant, tooth brushes, tooth paste, floss, sun lotion, candy/chocolate, snacks including chips and jerky, granola bars, ChapStick and more.
Athan McNamee is the son of Jamie McNamee, the teacher, and her husband Trey, who also have a younger daughter, Brynleigh. A first grader at the school, Athan told the class his cousin is Lt. (jg) Angus Yeoman of Bayville, is a helicopter pilot in the Navy stationed at Norfolk, Virginia.
Newly arrived at Norfolk after being transferred from Pensacola, Fla., Yeoman was surprised and delighted at the gift from Athan and his school mates. “I couldn’t have a better welcome to my new station than this package from my cousin Athan and his friends,” Yeoman said, “he’s a really cool kid and a great cousin. Can’t wait until the family gets down so I can show him some of the sights around here.”
In celebrating the 30th annual Clam Festival in Highlands Aug 1 through Aug 3, the highlands Business Partnership is planning a special fireworks display at Snug Harbor on Saturday, August 2 at 10 p.m.
The fireworks display is one of several special events to celebrate Clam Festival 2025, with food trucks, festival favorites, rides, children’s activities, specialty vendors and a beer and wind garden all on top for the three days of the event.
Activity begins Friday, August 1 at 6 p.m. and on Saturday at noon, with activities until 11 p.m. both nights. On Sunday, August 3, the Festival will begin at noon and end at 8 p.m.
Big Hix is the specialty entertainment on August 2 at both 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. and the Josh Zuckerman Bank will be on stage Sunday, August 3 at 1 p.m. and the Clamdiggers presenting their special on Sunday at 5 p.m.
The Festival is held at Huddy Park, Shore Drive and Waterwitch Ave.
The Highlands Partnership book with names and addresses for all business members is available at all local businesses, and includes, in addition to information on each of the members of the Partnership, a welcome message from Mayor Carolyn Broullon, hiking and cycling routes in the borough through trails and parks, information on the Twin Lights, ,a national historic landmark, and Gateway National Recreation Area located adjacent to Highlands, a history of the clamming industry in the borough as well as a brief history of the borough from when Verrazano first explored the area in the 16th century highlighting Henry Hudson, Capt. Joshua Huddy, Rum Runners, Capt. William Kid and author James Fenimore Cooper’s connection with the borough through the centuries.
For more information email hpb@highlandsnj.com or visit www.highlandsnj.com
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