We’ll go back a half-century for this one – 51 years, to be exact – January 1975. Members of the Stone Harbor Volunteer Fire Company are assisting the borough by placing collected, discarded Christmas trees along the southernmost beaches of Stone Harbor. The borough was beginning to participate in the new practice of using discarded Christmas trees to help retain sand and protect the dunes and beaches. The Seven Mile Beach had been hit with a particularly damaging nor’easter in December of 1974. The practice of collecting Christmas trees was already successfully in use in other barrier island communities, including Avalon. The borough was being aided in this project by a physics class from Middle Township High School.
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