Barnegat Says Goodbye To Old Town Hall

  BARNEGAT – Local officials watched as an excavator’s claw took its first bite out of Barnegat’s old municipal building on June 12, signaling not just the start of demolition – but the end of a chapter in township history.

  While the structure’s takedown is part of the second phase of Barnegat’s new municipal complex project, the brown-paneled building has a story of its own – one that predates Barnegat’s very name.

  Long before it housed police officers, clerks, and township officials, the building began life in 1973 as a sales and information center for a…