{"id":5664,"date":"2018-09-05T01:22:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T05:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=5664"},"modified":"2018-09-05T02:29:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T06:29:13","slug":"lavallette-beach-badge-revenue-tops-1m-for-second-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2018\/09\/lavallette-beach-badge-revenue-tops-1m-for-second-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavallette Beach Badge Revenue Tops $1M for Second Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_67\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0355.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"Lavallette life boat. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67\" class=\"size-large wp-image-67\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0355-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"Lavallette life boat. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0355-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0355-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0355-310x205.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-67\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lavallette life boat. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Despite some rainy weekends, Lavallette\u2019s beach badge revenue for the 2018 season nearly eclipsed a record, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Councilman Michael Stogdill said Tuesday that the borough generated $1,006,290 toward its beach in 2018, the second year in a row that badge sales topped the million-dollar mark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom what was kind of a down-revenue this season \u2013 last year was the best season we ever had \u2013 we were only $4,000 below last season,\u201d said Stogdill. \u201cWe finally got some good weekends toward the end. The flies didn\u2019t help, but it turned out well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The borough did especially well on holiday weekends, with an extremely strong Labor Day crowd, Stogdill said, with nearly 4,000 badge sales coming on Sunday alone.<\/p>\n<p>The season was also among the busiest for the borough\u2019s lifeguards, who handled more rescues in one particularly rough day this year than the previous five years combined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a very tough tide this year and they did a miraculous job,\u201d Stogdill said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2018\/09\/lavallette-beach-badge-revenue-tops-1m-for-second-year\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite some rainy weekends, Lavallette\u2019s beach badge revenue for the 2018 season nearly eclipsed a record, officials said. Councilman Michael Stogdill said Tuesday that the borough generated $1,006,290 toward its beach in 2018, the second year in a row that badge sales topped the million-dollar mark. \u201cFrom what was kind of a down-revenue this season [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,3,2],"tags":[65,29,50],"class_list":["post-5664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-lavallette-government","category-lavallette","tag-beach-badge-sales","tag-lavallette-nj-news","tag-lifeguards"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0355.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-1tm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}