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Step right up, the boardwalk beckons. Showmen and sideshows compete for eye-

balls and dollars; moms and dads search for innocence amid the whirlwind of

fried food, carnival rides, arcades and ribald jokes that call this town home. e

This is Seaside Heights, the town of Jersey Shore fame and Sandy horror, a

post-reality-show summer utopia that offers a smorgasbord fit for children by

day and people acting like children by night. e Watch it unfold, or jump in the middle and be the

spectacle. eOn the boardwalk, the wind washes the Seaside scents over every reveler. Deep algal

DAY AND NIGHT

IN SEASIDE HEIGHTS

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Top: Nick Mancini, 19, mans a balloon game on the Seaside Heights boardwalk. Above: Frank DeVille, a street magician.

Dusk brings changing of the guard on boardwalkANDREW FORD @ANDREWFORDNEWS

See SEASIDE, Page 7A

VOLUME 136

NUMBER 157

SINCE 1879

THURSDAY 07.02.15

Celebrate July 4 withSouthside in AsburyThe iconic rocker and his band return to their roots and play a much-anticipated show at The Stone Pony.

Fireworkslight upthe night Spectacular displays in Brick,Freehold, Lakewood andPoint Pleasant Beach.

Sandsculptingon LBIHead to Barnegat Light and watch sand artisans at work.

Happy hourSt. Stephens Green Publick House,Spring Lake Heights. 9 p.m. to midnight:$2 domestic pints, $4 craft beers, $4 welldrinks.

The Crabs Claw Inn, Lavallette. 4 p.m.to closing. $1.50 off drinks, pints andbottles of beer.

Oyster Point Hotel, Red Bank. 4 to 6p.m. $6 Absolut martinis, $5 houseliquor, $4 Penfolds and Mirassou wine;$3 domestic beer, $6 appetizers.

beacheditionYOUR WEEKEND GUIDE DOWN THE SHORE

All this and more inside! 2A

ADVICE 5DCLASSIFIED 1ECOMICS 4DLOCAL 3ALUXURY LIVING 1D

OBITUARIES 10AOPINION 13ASPORTS 1CWEATHER 8CYOUR MONEY 6A

LITTLE EGG HARBOR Not even the superintendentof the Pinelands Regional School District knew theswastikas were there.

I can inform you that we do not have a mural withswastikas in the (junior high school) cafeteria and I hadnever heard anything about it until your inquiry. This ismy fourth year in the district, said Superintendent ofSchools Robert L. Blake in an email to an Asbury ParkPress reporter last week.

But as it turns out, there are swastikas (about two

dozen of them) in a mural in the cafeteria of PinelandsJunior High School, and those symbols of Nazi Ger-many have been there for 20 years. The swastikas areincluded in a collage of ceramic tiles made in 1995 byeighth-graders, who would be in their 30s now, as partof an art project to memorialize the 50th anniversaryof the end of the Holocaust.

Following the controversy about displaying theConfederate flag in the South, and a national reassess-ment of symbols of hate in schools and public areas,

Schools swastikasart or offensive?

See MURAL, Page 5A

ERIK LARSEN @ERIK_LARSEN

It starts at the baggage claim: What if a travelerssuitcase never makes its way around the carousel? Orwhen it arrives, what happens when a traveler opens itto find his or her vacation souvenirs cracked in two?

For thousands of travelers who have used the air ter-minals at Atlantic City, Kennedy, LaGuardia, Newarkand Philadelphia International, the end result was acomplaint filed with the Transportation Security Ad-

ministration, which oversees baggage handling andsecurity across the country.

More than 7,000 complaints were filed at the fiveregional airports, but the TSA paid travelers in just1,884 cases, including full approvals and settlements.

At those airports, about half of all complaints weredenied, following a trend throughout the country. Anadditional 1,691 complaints still are unresolved, ac-

TSA pays $500G to regions travelers

See TSA, Page 5A

MIKE DAVIS @BYMIKEDAVIS

Across nation, TSA paid passengers $3 million over the past five years. STORY, 1B

Frazier eyes starting spot in All-Star Game. 1C

Maines governor endorses Christie. 12A