On Monday, April 3, Frog Pond students, as well as many of their parents and teachers, flooded the Frog Pond Elementary School with pink shirts to honor their friend, Michael “Mikey” Browne Jr., 12, who passed away Sunday, April 2 following a dirt bike accident.
Just prior to his accident, Browne was traveling alone along the Otis Bog extension of Dump Road, an unimproved road that had recently been re-gated via use of a chain and PVC pipe, according to Little Egg Harbor Police Chief James Hawkins.
“There’s still a lot of details that are unknown yet,” said Hawkins, who stressed that the accident remains under full…
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