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of Seaside Heights and Keansburg, takes the podium as the President of the New Jersey Amusement Association.

New Jersey Amusement Association Executive Director Kimberle Rolle-Samarelli makes sure that all is right ahead of the annual 2010 Dinner Dance, Monday, May 10th.
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Book signing for local’s work to be held Memorial Day Weekend
Staff Report, ocgazette.com, 5/17/2010

A book signing for Seaside Heights: A Postcard History will be as follows:
Date:
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Time:
1:00pm – 3:00pm
Location:
Magical Carousel Shoppe on the Boardwalk @ Grant Avenue

Seaside Heights: A Postcard Memory, is written by Christopher J. Vaz, a local historian and now author.
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Seaside Heights’ Hugh J. School students and staff hold raffle for student with cancer
Staff Report, ocgazette.com 5/17/2010

Beautiful gift baskets in varying themes have been prepared by the Hugh J. Boyd, Jr. Elementary School students and staff to benefit an Kindergarten student, Michael Smith, who is ill with a very aggressive form of cancer.
The baskets are on display in the front corridor of the school, and chances are $2.00 each. To participate, go to the school’s main office at 1200 Bay Boulevard.
The winners will be drawn June 6th.
Last month, the students and staff sold chocolate lollipops and Boyd Blue Dolphin wristbands to benefit Michael, who is in the class of Mrs. Kathleen Wright-Gottshall.
The lollipops and band fund raiser was not just limited to Boyd, but also the 18 schools of its partner district, Toms River Regional.

Themed Gift Basket fundraisers are a long tradition at the Hugh J. Boyd Jr. Elementary School, and the latest lot, to be raffled June 6th, will benefit a Kindergarten student with cancer.
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New beach booths, dune fencing, appearing along Boardwalk in Seaside Heights
Staff Photos, 5/ 17/2010

This re-vamped design of a Seaside Heights Beach Control ticket booth is now in place at Hiering Avenue and the Boardwalk.

The newer design is smaller, yet more functional, as compared with previous designs.

Harry Smith, leaseholder of the Hiering Avenue Parking Lot in Seaside Heights is seen here, with the new dune/snow fence, recently installed by the Department of Public Works.
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“Snooki” given special place of honor at Beachcomber Bar in Seaside Heights
Staff Photos, ocgazette.com, 5/17/2010

“Snooki’s Chair” is the location where MTV’s runaway hit, Jersey Shore, was helped launched. Who could forget the infamous reality star, punched in the face at this very location? The show is an international hit, and the highest-rated show ever on MTV.

Keith Zirpoli (of New Jersey), and Skye Langmack-Largent (of Maryland) are both fans of Jersey Shore. Keith and Skye are seen here at St. Leo University, at a recent reunion. Keith, Skye, and Peter J. Smith, of popartpete.com, and an ocgazette.com roving photographer, are all alumni of the Central Florida institute of higher learning.

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Cinco De Mayo celebrated in Seaside Heights
Staff Photos, ocgazette.com, 5/17/2010

SEEN CELEBRATING CINCO DE MAYO recently at Spicy’s at 500 Boardwalk in Seaside Heights: Peter Smith, Maria Meredith, Doug Roemmele and Chris Linnell.

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El Con gets facelift
Staff Photos, ocgazette.com, 5/17/2010

The El Con condominium complex, which sits on the northeast corner of the residential section of Seaside Heights, at Hiering Avenue and Ocean Terrace, is currently going underneath a facelift. In recent weeks, the building, which houses 62 units, was powerwashed, primed, and repainted in time for the summer season.
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MTV’s Jersey Shore will return to Seaside Heights in 2010
Staff Report, Ocean County Gazette: April 27, 2010

Despite controversy, MTV’s Jersey Shore, the highest-ever rated show in the network’s history, and a cultural phenomenon, will return to Seaside Heights in the Summer of ’10.

Although there were initially some concerns, the Seaside Heights governing body could not legally keep the show from filming.

2010′s line-up will include a new group of self-described “Guidos” and “Guidettes”, whose every move will be followed by cameras. If they are anything like the ’09 group, their day will consist of “G.L.T”, meaning, “Gym, Laundry and Tanning” and then hitting the various area nightclub hotspots.

’09 Jersey Shore fans should not fret, for it is said that the original cast members including breakout star Snooki, The Situation, J-Wow, Pauly D and the rest are slated to make at least cameo appearances during the shoot.

The advent of Jersey Shore has put the area, especially Seaside Heights on the international map once again, but has made the shore community far more famous than did the MTV beach houses of 1997 and 2002.

On a recent East Coast trip, one local resident conducted a non-scientific poll, but with astounding results: 100% of those surveyed knew of Seaside Heights because of the popularity of Jersey Shore. (Interestingly, reality mom Kate Gosselin, in a popular culture poll on a television entertainment show had not heard of the show, and could not identify Snooki or The Situation.)

The show will once again be filmed at the famed house with the garage door painted with the symbol of the State of New Jersey painted in the Italian colors of red, green and white. This location has been a tourist hot-spot since the show began airing in December 2009. At any given time of day, people can be seen congregating near the building, snapping photos, or simply staring up at the location in awe.

The hope is that the tourism industry, the life’s blood of Seaside Heights, will benefit from the unprecedented publicity garnered by Jersey Shore, with a resulting and resounding, “Cha-Ching” in the local business community’s cash registers.
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Seaside Heights Police Officer joins ranks of local Board of Education
Staff Report, Ocean County Gazette, 4-27-2010

Seaside Heights Police Officer Christopher Linnell has been elected to the Seaside Heights Board of Education for a three-year term as of the April 20th election.

Seaside Heights School Board Attorney David Cassadonte performed the oath of office to the new school board member, which was witnessed by many of Patrolman Linnell’s friends from the force, including Lieutenant Jon Lombardi.

Also taking the oath of office this night was now-three term re-elected BOE member Todd Genty, who is a civilian member of the department.

The Seaside Heights Police Department is no stranger to the school as it assigns a full time officer to the building each year, it is the location where the Class I Police Officer tryouts are held, and the namesake of the school, the late Hugh J. Boyd, Jr. was the father of current SHPD Chief Thomas J. Boyd.

Peter J. Smith was once again elected Board President, and Frances T. Little was named Board Vice President.

The fifth member of the board is Harry M. Smith, who is the brother of Peter Smith, is also a member of the very-first Kindergarten class to attend the bay-side school when it was erected in 1967, and, coincidentally, the now Chief Thomas Boyd was also in that class. Also coincidentally, Peter Smith and Lt. Jon Lombardi were ALSO in the same Kindergarten class at the school. Aside from being alumni and board members, the Smith brothers have an additional bond to the school. Their father, the late SHPD Deputy Chief Harry M. Smith III, was the Board of Education President for 25 years in a row, including during the time when the school was built, and the Early Childhood Education Center was dedicated in his name in 2007.