Memorial Day Sunday on LBI had to be the coolest ever. Unfortunately, I’m speaking in weather terms and not colloquially. I might even rate it as the coldest on anecdotal record. As such, it was helping the disease preventive cause by limiting how many folks made forays onto our fine, generally wide beaches. But you can safely bet that temperatures won’t stay in the current low-beaching mode for much longer. Ye olden Island saying: Cool springs lead to scalding summers.
Despite the beaches being far from sunbather-friendly, the holiday weekend saw the Island awash with humanity of every…
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