Thousands attend Barnegat Lighthouse sesquicentennial - Asbury Park Press, 10/12/08:

To commemorate the lighthouse's sesquicentennial anniversary, it will be relighted on Jan. 1 for the first time since it was decommissioned in 1927. A new $15,000 light is en route from New Zealand and was paid for by donations.

My pictures of Ol' Barney on New Year's Eve, 2003 at Flickr.