Lori Press

Ocean Grove

I love Ocean Grove because:
1. Location - a beautiful coastal community and 1 1/2 hr from Manhattan
2. Dry town - no loud bars, no hordes of drunken young people hanging out
3. Listed on National Register of Historic Places - Preservation Committee enforces rules to keep town looking like the Victorian village by the sea that it is.
4. The Great Auditorium-hosts top name performers every Saturday night during the summer and the town sponsors events weekly during summer.
5.Front porches and the simple life: People sit on their porches greeting neighbors (we stay connected) and going out for ice cream at Day's or Nagle's is an evening's simple joy and past-time.

I don't like Ocean Grove because;
1. The town has not come up with a viable solution to the parking problem. (We don't have driveways).
2. Taxes are extraordinarily high for a town with no full time police dept or school of its own. We do have volunteer Fire Dept.
3. The roads do not get plowed quickly enough- we don't have our equipment, we are part of Neptune Township.
4. You can't access the beach on Sunday until after 12:30pm
5. The drainage system for the roads and the upkeep of the roads leaves something to be desired.