As part of ongoing efforts to help people affected by the storm, hundreds of families received the ingredients of a traditional Christmas dinner over the weekend in Toms River.
While she was a high school teen in 2006, Mountainside native Sasha Lipton got the idea for an organization that could benefit needy children and the environment at the same time.
Christmas is very special holiday for one Ocean County Community, where school staffers, residents, first responders and local business leaders spend weeks acting like Santa's little helpers.
The popular Ocean County-based non-profit, Music is the Medicine Foundation, is back with their latest fundraising effort, which was derived during the darkest days of Sandy.