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Podcast: American Shoreline Podcast Network
Episode: Mayor Joe Mancini on COVID and Long Beach Township, NJ | Local Control
Description: Let's say you're the leader of a barrier island beach town with 4,000 off-season residents, average age 66, and you're facing a summer onslaught of 100,000 visitors ready to pour into town and hit the beach in as little as two weeks. The economy is important to be sure but this year is very different.
As COVID-19 continues to ravage NY and NJ, cries to "open the beach" are rising and the crowds are on the way to the Jersey shore. Long Beach Township Mayor Joe Mancini, a long-time town leader who's father served as the mayor for 40 years, is rig...