The area lost two longtime businesspeople last week, fishing boat captain Donald E. Mears of Barnegat Light, who died Aug. 29, and former Starboard Inn restaurant owner James G. Malloy, who passed away Sept. 1.
Mears is one of the fishermen depicted on a new bronze sculpture being dedicated Sept. 13 at the New Jersey Museum of Maritime History in Beach Haven.
The frieze by Brian Hanlon honoring the Island’s commercial fishermen depicts six fishermen hauling in a net as they work at what has been termed the…
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