Long Beach Island is a community of six separate and distinct towns on a barrier island with a seasonal population that blooms and shrinks. That singular community of full-time and part-time homeowners is in mourning this spring with the deaths of three longtime Island residents who succumbed after being exposed to coronavirus.
Ruth Reeder, 96, of the Loveladies section of Long Beach Township as of last year, and Sandy Medford, 76, of Ship Bottom, were congregants at Zion Lutheran Church in…
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