The outdoor stage in front of the Bay Breeze Pavilion in Barnegat Light was set. Surf-rock-reggae band The Danksters would accompany the end-of-summer party on Friday, Aug. 29, to honor some special retirees – Michael White of White’s Market, striper captain and public works construction leader Kenny Nutt and Councilman Frank Mikuletzky – assuming bass player Taylor Stokes ever returned from wherever he had gone.
“We’ve been chasing Taylor around the dunes of Barnegat Light for ages now,” front man Kenny Burkhardt said of Stokes.
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