Strap yourselves in ... It’s going to be a long hurricane season. But should we expect anything less in the tumultuous year that has been 2020? It’s a year when we could very well run out of names on our annual list of storm names for the Atlantic Basin.

St. Brendan the Navigator Parish’s new pastor, Rev. William J. Kelly, entered the priesthood a little later in life. His was a “delayed vocation.” But there was no delay for Father Kelly in making St. Brendan’s his workplace and home upon arrival there in July.

The quest for a COVID-19 vaccine passes through Avalon. That’s where the second home of renowned pediatrician Paul Offit stands. Offit spends as much time as possible here, even while the nation’s most crippling problem demands his attention.

Sometimes the destiny of a person and a place are so intertwined, it’s hard to separate them. So it is with Bill Tozour and Avalon. In a lifetime that spanned from the 1920s to the 2020s, Bill Tozour grew up in Avalon … and helped Avalon grow up.

The Avalon Volunteer Fire Department and Mayor Martin Pagliughi introduced a streamlined system for audible fire alarms in the town, reducing the use of the alarm nearly 70%.

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Tides Charts for September & October 2020.