A busy 2023 netted the staff of The SandPaper more than five dozen awards in the 2023 New Jersey Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest, including 29 for advertising, 25 for print writing/online content and 12 in photography. The contest was judged by members of the Maryland Delaware DC Press Association.

Among the writing categories, longtime Associate Editor Maria Scandale, posthumously, took top honors in business and economic writing for her stories on Mustache Bill’s in Barnegat Light; 39 North, formerly Horizon Diner, in Stafford Township;…