Mayor Michael Reina knew his town was onto a good idea when a Vietnam veteran grateful to be recognized during a parade asked him, "Where were you when I came home?"
A high school transformed into a winter wonderland on just the second day of classes this school year, as part of a donation drive in honor and memory of a 13-year-old local girl whose brave fight against cancer and other health issues came to an end in January.
Saturday, Sept. 9 will be a special day at Monmouth Battlefield State Park, as it marks the 16th annual "Walk With Joe," a ceremony and 5K walk to remember a township icon and two other residents who died in the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.
For the last two years, the Atlantic City Rescue Mission has welcomed into its kitchen a group of culinary power players it calls its "Souper Chefs," who return each week to produce some 600 bowls of soup for the mission's clients.
When 15-year-old Keertana Talla was much younger, she went to school one day without her lunch money. She said she was kicked out of the lunchroom, humiliated, confused, and embarrassed.
The project, in part based on a similar one out of Atlantic County, bears the name of the classic 1989 movie that gave us the line, "If you build it, he will come." But the Toms River Field of Dreams is about much more than baseball.