While there are things that have gone and are going well or better for the Jersey Shore environment and coastline, there are still some challenges ahead to improve the way of living for us and marine life, and so much more.
On a four-tier scale that denotes the status of water quality, Monmouth County's 10 coastal lakes fall in the worst possible category, according to data gathering led by Monmouth University that continues today.
As we head through 2021, how we we use what we've seen, heard and learned not just in 2020 but in the decades preceding it to bring peace and equality for African Americans into our society?
"Certainly some towns do have the capacity to put some small amounts of sand on the beach — typically, that's more of a band-aid solution," said Jon Miller, research associate professor at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken.
Monmouth University will resume a hybrid schedule on Wednesday after a September "super-spreader event" was believed to have resulted in numerous cases of COVID-19 among students.