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It's not just any Monday for a seal named "Ocean"

By BEN LEACH Staff Writer, 609-272-7261

Published: Dec 01, 2008

View photo gallery by Bill Gross

3:24 p.m. Update - A seal that stranded in Ocean City in October has been rehabilitated and was released Monday morning along the Great Bay in Little Egg Harbor.

The nine-month-old harbor seal nicknamed "Ocean" was taken in by the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine. The young seal was found dehydrated. It usually gets its freshwater intake from fish.

A tracking device, secured to the seal’s fur with an epoxy-like substance, is expected to stay with the seal for the next 100 days as it finds its way back to its home somewhere north of New Jersey.

Eventually, the seal's progress will be tracked and available at: www.marinemammalstrandingcenter.org More

Nov 30, 2008

• Viking Yacht Co. launches largest vessel in its history

ATLANTIC CITY - On Friday morning, the Viking Yacht Co.'s first 82 Convertible steered into Dock E at the Senator Frank S. Farley State Marina, just arriving from an hourlong trip along the coast from New Gretna, where about 90 percent of it was built at the company's factory along the Bass River.

Nov 30, 2008

• Electrical fault shuts down Oyster Creek nuclear plant

From Press staff reports

Nov 29, 2008

• LATEST NEWS: Oyster Creek generating station automatically shuts down

LACEY TOWNSHIP Oyster Creek Generating Station automatically shut down at 9:02 p.m. Friday due to an electrical fault in one of the station's two main transformers.

Nov 27, 2008

• Stage Road finally gets repairs - and owners

BASS RIVER TOWNSHIP - For the first time in the 21st century, the lonely 4.7 mile-section of Stage Road in Bass River Township, neglected and left to the elements as it heads west out of Ocean County, has an owner.

Nov 27, 2008

• Searching for the right spot

Kevin Kane of Mystic Islands in Little Egg Harbor Township walks along the beach Wednesday before finding the right spot to fish for striped bass at Graveling Point, at the end of Radio Road in the township.

Nov 27, 2008

• Police investigate shots fired at home in Barnegat

From Press staff reports

Nov 26, 2008

• State fines Oyster Creek nuclear plant $67,000 for fish kills

The Oyster Creek Generating Station in Lacey Township has been fined $67,859 for killing more than 5,300 fish during two separate unscheduled outages.

Nov 26, 2008

• Ocean County Happenings

Eating out

Nov 25, 2008

• McMahon will leave Barnegat school district

BARNEGAT TOWNSHIP - School district Superintendent Thomas C. McMahon will resign from his position in December to become the superintendent of the Willingboro School District, a position he accepted early Tuesday morning.

Nov 25, 2008

• LATEST NEWS: Viking Yachts cuts 17% of jobs, citing drop in demand for high-end yachts

One of southern Ocean County's largest employers is facing rough times in a turbulent economy.

Nov 25, 2008

• LATEST NEWS: Oyster Creek nuclear plant to pay fine for fish kill

The Oyster Creek nuclear plant in Ocean County will pay a $67,859 fine for killing more than 5,000 fish during two unplanned shutdowns.

Nov 25, 2008

• Lacey details $19.8 million energy plan

LACEY TOWNSHIP - The Lacey Township School District could save more than $12 million - as well as significantly reduce its environmental impact - over the next 25 years by installing solar panels on its six schools, according to a presentation of the plan Monday evening.

Nov 25, 2008

• Groups target community problems

One of four billboards that target drinking, drug abuse or domestic violence stands on Route 9 in Eagleswood Township. Officials and students dedicated the signs Monday. The four billboards were a result of a community effort involving Pinelands Regional High School and Junior High School students, municipal alliance officials, businesses and elected officials. The Eagleswood, Little Egg Harbor and Tuckerton Municipal Alliance spearheaded the billboard project. Students created the initial designs for the messages and local businesses donated land for the signs. More than 3,500 teens are killed and another 85,000 injured each year in car crashes involving alcohol, according to the alliance. Not all have been drinking, some are passengers or innocent victims of people who drink and drive.

Nov 25, 2008

• Barnegat parkway overpass down to one lane this evening

From Press staff reports

Nov 24, 2008

• Ocean County Happenings

Eating out

Nov 23, 2008

• International Year of Astronomy has eyes on the skies

Nov 22, 2008

• Toms River man who killed his mother resentenced

TOMS RIVER - Convicted murderer Peter O'Brien was resentenced Friday for the May 2004 shooting deaths of his mother, Josephine S. O'Brien, 54, and Anthony J. Napoleon, 57.

Nov 22, 2008

• $19.8M. schools project tackles energy-saving improvements

LACEY TOWNSHIP - The Lacey Township School District will hold a public hearing Monday night in the high school lecture hall on its Dec. 9 referendum to fund a $19.8 million solar panel and school improvement project.

Nov 22, 2008

• Threatening graffiti closes Lacey Twp. High School

Nov 22, 2008

• Stafford man admits taking $1.8M. of clients' tax money

From Press staff reports

Nov 21, 2008

• Work starts on $52 M. county jail expansion

TOMS RIVER - A Caterpillar hydraulic excavator pried up concrete slabs from the walkway between the Ocean County Justice Complex and courthouse Thursday morning, clearing the way for the fifth expansion of the county jail in 157 years.

Nov 21, 2008

• Woman accused of stealing $6,000 from mom

From Press staff reports

Nov 21, 2008

• Ocean County Happenings

Eating out

Nov 21, 2008

• Verizon work injured in fall from bucket truck

From Press staff reports

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