On a recent Friday morning, sounds of a horn followed by a siren and peals of laughter from young students rang out against the quiet stillness of Barnegat Bay as a group of first-graders from the Ethel A. Jacobsen School toured a 27-foot utility boat docked at Coast Guard Station Barnegat Light. About eight miles away, the voices of older students echoed as they collected debris from two different bay beaches in Surf City.
(Photo by Ryan Morrill)
While the approach to Barnegat Bay Blitz, an annual outing that happens throughout Ocean County during Earth Week, was…
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