Ocean County's COVID-19 Cases: See Town-By-Town Totals - Brick, NJ - Ocean County's COVID-19 activity levels have continued to drop. Take a look at the town-by-town cases.
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Every day, Suzanne Von Bargen stopped by her mother’s assisted-living facility in Wall and took a long walk with her outside.
“On March 8, 2020, that stopped cold,” Von Bargen said.
Her mother, Joan Clark, went into lockdown like everyone else in nursing homes throughout New Jersey as the pandemic exploded. And like many with dementia, Clark’s condition deteriorated in isolation.
“She was getting more and more agitated,” Von Bargen said. “She knew she was trapped. We had a visitation (for the first time) in October, and I saw a woman I did not know.”
Although she praised the staff’s level of care, Von Bargen viewed the isolation as untenable for her mom. Last month, she decided to pull the 90-year-old out and take her into her own home in Point Pleasant. The difference so far “has been amazing,” Von Bargen said. And the timing could not be better.
SEASIDE HEIGHTS Plans for an eight-story structure with 79 residential units, a restaurant and retail at the site of the steel skeleton building on the Boulevard have taken a big step forward.
The Borough Council on Wednesday designated SSH Boulevard LLC as redeveloper for the property, which has long been an eyesore.
SSH Boulevard LLC includes Dan Matarese, owner of Danco General Contracting Inc. in Marlboro; Zach Rich, director of concrete promotion and sales for Silvi Group and a Republican who is a Hunterdon County commissioner; lawyer Douglas Steinhardt, a partner at the law firm of Florio Perrucci Steinhardt Cappelli Tipton & Taylor and former chairman of the New Jersey State Republican Committee; and Joanne Gilmore, a paralegal and local consultant who is the wife of former Ocean County GOP Chairman and Seaside Heights native George R. Gilmore.
Jackson (56,501): 6,154 (+87)
Lacey (28,444): 2,740 (+28)
Lakehurst (2,697): 309 (+8)
Lakewood (102,682): 13,619 (+30)
Lavallette (1,849): 167 (+3)
Little Egg Harbor (20,695): 1,712 (+11)
Long Beach Township (3,040): 187 (+3)
Manchester (43,418): 4,153 (+20)
Mantoloking (396): 21
Pine Beach (2,168): 178 (+2)
Plumsted (8,543): 663 (+6)
Point Pleasant Beach (4,544): 464 (+2)
Point Pleasant (18,651): 2,348 (+16)
Seaside Heights (2,903): 272 (-1)
Seaside Park (1,549): 110 (+3)
Ship Bottom (1,143): 104 (+1)
South Toms River (3,772): 382 (+4)
Stafford (27012): 2,487 (+25)
Surf City (1,187): 61 (-3)
Toms River (91,415): 10,699 (+75)
Tuckerton (3,372): 262
Address not reported: 149 (-5)
Death toll
Ocean County: 1,959 (+15)
The list below represents the number of deaths since March attributed to COVID-19 in Ocean County by municipality. In communities where there have been fewer than five deaths from the virus, the health department uses