People picking up after their dogs has led to a success story for a Barnegat Light kiddie bay bathing beach so far this summer, officials report. The town and the Long Beach Island Health Department want everyone to know that picking up dog waste is keeping fecal coliform counts within state-accepted levels at the 25th Street swimming beach.

In a turnaround from two closures of the shallow bathing beach in 2019, this summer’s tests so far have declared no excess levels of coliform bacteria,…