TOMS RIVER-Nobody asked, but Toms River Councilman felt compelled to tell his fans on his campaign website page why is nose is the way it is…no…really.

During his facebook live session last week, Mo revealed that his unique nose is the result of a football injury when he was a high school junior, his campaign page read.

“The doctor advised him that if he had surgery he would not be able to play football again. That was not OK with Mo, who went on to win the Ocean County Championship his senior and then went on to be a lineman for Rutgers,” it said.

According to Rutgers University, Hill joined the Rutgers team in 1966, where he was described as tiny by his coaches, “The smallest of freshman tackles.” Hill majored in biological sciences.  In 1967, tiny Mo was lauded for lifting weights and climbing from 195 to 215 pounds.   As a sophomore, he was plagued by a knee injury but made the team in his junior year as a guard.

In his senior year, according to Rutgers University, Mo was a “determined athlete” who was on the brink of playing regularly after his injury-plagued sophomore year and was moved from the offensive line to defensive tackle.

MOUNT HOLLY-Tropical Storm Karen’s force is diminishing over the Atlantic Ocean and is expected to continue becoming weaker in the coming days.  At this time, the National Weather Service says Karen will continue weakening significantly and poses no imminent threat to New Jersey.

Karen is expected to teeter out in a few days and forgotten and will dissipate into patches of rain and light winds.  According to the National Weather Service Karen’s best days are behind her.

Data from aircraft reconnaissance, ASCAT, and NOAA buoy 41049 indicate that Karen’s circulation is becoming increasingly elongated. A combination of data from these platforms also supports maintaining an initial intensity of 40 kt for now.

The deterioration of Karen’s structure suggests that weakening is imminent, especially with an expected increase in northerly shear during the next day or so. The GFS and ECMWF models–via their simulated infrared satellite fields–are unanimous in showing Karen losing its organized deep convection in about 36 hours. Based on that, the new NHC forecast depicts Karen as becoming a remnant low in 48 hours. Due to a significant increase in southwesterly shear by day 4, the system is expected to open up into a surface trough by day 5.

Fixes suggest that Karen is slowing down a bit and turning to the right, with an initial motion of 025/10 kt. The steering flow will be evolving over the next couple of days with high pressure building to the north of Karen over the western Atlantic. This will cause the cyclone to almost come to a stop in about 36 hours, and then turn to the west by 48 hours until dissipation on day 5.

However, as Karen moves out and fades into obscurity,  a stronger storm looms over the horizon. Hurricane Lorenzo packs a serious punch that could cause devastation in its wake. In the middle of the Atlantic, Hurricane Lorenzo is a rare category 4 hurricane that has the potential to be a devastating category 5 storm, but it is not expected to make land fall in the Carribean or continental United States.

PHOTO: DEVELOPERS RENDERING OF BRICK VA HOSPITAL.   VA Signage added.

TOMS RIVER-The United States Department of Justice has made their stance clear.  Toms River’s existing 10-acre zoning barring houses of worship is illegal and unfairly targets all religions, but more specifically the Orthodox Jewish religion.

Toms River Councilwoman Laurie Huryk tried to back Council President George Wittman and Councilman Maurice Hill off the ledge but was unsuccessful.

“The Department of Justice has given us an opportunity to fix this,” Huryk said. “We can keep our place at the table and determine our own zoning laws.  If we don’t change it, they will tell us what our zoning laws will be.  We don’t want to lose our ability to decide our own zoning laws.”

Huryk and Terrance Turnbach both said the township has done its due diligence, even hiring the nation’s top religious land use attorney Marci Hamilton to guide them through the process. Hamilton suggested that a compromise of 7 acres would both satisfy the Department of Justice and retain the township’s ability to better manage the placement of houses of worship.

George Wittman declared that as long as he is in office, the township will not be hearing this matter again and said that it will be the responsibility of whoever wins this year’s election to handle the problem, kicking the can down the road in his final few months as a  lame-duck councilman.

Mo Hill reiterated that he will challenge the Department of Justice and now, will not budge on the 10-acre minimum.