While volleyball and the bean bag toss were popular on the beaches of Long Beach Island this holiday weekend, most took the opportunity to kick back and relax. The following is a photo gallery of some of the beach-goers that took advantage of the picture perfect weather.
Marching bands, Scouts, sports teams and, of course, those who fought for our country all joined together in a hometown celebration for Memorial Day. A weekend of ceremonies brought to life the patriotic spirit.
The combination of old and young and patriotic music brought even more sushine to a picture perfect sunny afternoon in Barnegat. The concert, performed by Barnegat elementary school students, helped to set the tone for the 25th annual Barnegat Memorial Day parade.
Decoration Day or Memorial Day? The question was still unsettled in 1892 when graves of veterans across Ocean County were decorated in ceremonies that took legions from the Grand Army of the Republic and other patriots on pilgrimages to places where those who died in the nation’s wars were buried. There were far fewer graves then, fewer wars and fewer fallen warriors. Decoration Day began, ironically, where the Civil War started, in Charleston, S.C. It was there that cadets from The Citadel fired the first shots of that war at the Star of the West, a ship supplying Union troops at Fort …
American Legion Post 232 in Barnegat hosted a flag placing event Memorial Day weekend to honor fallen American veterans.
Anglers starting their fishing seasons on Memorial Day weekend jumped into a striped bass fishery that has been on fire and only getting hotter, most fishing reports indicated. Party boats have reported strong catches of striped bass from Shark River to Barnegat inlets over the past week, and as Memorial Day weekend began, there have been particularly good catches reported on the Big Mohawk out of Belmar and the Gambler out of Point Pleasant Beach. Most of the reports have indicated that snagging - and livelining - bunker has been the ultimate ticket, and bunker schools have been plentiful …
There are a growing number of graves to mark in cemeteries across Ocean County this Memorial Day, as those who served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam continue to age. The job of making sure all 18,264 of those graves is marked with an American flag falls to John P. Dorrity, the director of the county’s Veterans Service Bureau, and the volunteer members of veterans’ and civic organizations such as the Scouts. “We had a 9 percent increase in the number of graves from last year,’’ he explained. Ocean has more veterans, 68,000 living within its borders, than any other New Jersey county. Many …
