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;…
Subscribe to keep reading
This story is from our archive. Get your SandPaper Annual Pass for access to our digital archive, plus everything else a pass includes. Details below.
Annual Pass — $18 Details
365-day access to:
- The complete SandPaper digital archive (stories date back to 2012).
- Full photo galleries from our photographers.
- The entire catalog of SandPaper games, puzzles and quizzes.
How it works
- Enter your email below and click to pay the one-time $18. Card details are entered on Stripe’s secure page.
- You’re in straight away — no password to create, and nothing to set up or manage.
- You stay signed in. If you’re ever signed out, or you read on a new phone or computer, we’ll email you a code to get you back in.
- Never auto-renews. Your pass is good for one year. We will email you when it expires so you can renew if you’d like.
See our site policies for more information.
Already a subscriber? We’ll email a code to get you back in.
















