State transportation officials are expected to make a final determination about continuing the multi-year, federally funded Causeway project this summer in Ship Bottom by the end of the week.

That was the message Kathleen Flanagan, borough coordinator, delivered to the governing body during its caucus meeting June 26. The work, which has snarled traffic at the entrance to Long Beach Island and on the approach to the barrier island for most of June, was halted last week. A decision by the N.J.