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Business••February 5, 2025
Breezy Bowls Offers a Fresh Start and Fresh Smoothies
Carly Flannery and Austin Demello, owners of new Mystic Island açai bowl and smoothie shop Breezy Bowls in Little Egg Harbor Township, aptly chose a moth symbol to represent their business. It’s…
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News••February 5, 2025
Southern Regional Thespians Rack Up Awards at Annual Festival
Stephanie Berson enjoys the experience of the New Jersey Thespian Festival. In fact, the Southern Regional High School senior gets a little bummed knowing others don’t have the opportunity.
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Arts & Entertainment••February 5, 2025
Art Notes, Feb. 5
Dig in: Painter and author-illustrator Dawn McDonnell of Manahawkin will launch a one-night-only solo exhibit of 15 works titled “An Artist Buffet” – her newest series of photorealistic deliciousness…
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Arts & Entertainment••February 5, 2025
Plan to Make Memories in Stafford at Sweetheart Dance
The Stafford Township EMS Auxiliary has planned a special time for parents and children to get together and enjoy food, drinks, photo opportunities and plenty of dancing. On Sunday, Feb. 16, the…
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News••February 5, 2025
Resident Raps Mayor’s ‘Christian’ Comments
When Alfonso Cirulli was handed the mayor’s gavel at the Barnegat Township Committee reorganization meeting on Jan. 1, he made a speech in which he stressed the importance of “Christian values.”
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Arts & Entertainment••February 5, 2025
Eat Turkey With the Beach Haven Fire Co.
Thanksgiving isn’t the only time in the Beach Haven area when people sit down to a turkey dinner. It’s also a winter tradition at the Beach Haven Volunteer Fire Co., where on Saturday, Feb. 15…
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Arts & Entertainment••February 5, 2025
The Wizard Draws Beach Haven Community Together
“For many people, the theater is a wondrous space. It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from because as soon as your feet hit the stage or your body sits in the newly renovated Surflight…
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News••February 5, 2025
Ocean County Library Commission Reorganizes
The Ocean County Library Commission recently held its reorganization meeting at the headquarters of the library system in Toms River. Timothy McDonald was named chair of the library’s governing body…
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Arts & Entertainment••February 5, 2025
‘Meet’ George and Martha at Lacey Library
Celebrate Valentine’s and Presidents’ Days in the company of America’s original “first couple” when The Ocean County Library Lacey Branch presents historical interpreters Alisa Dupuy and Curt…
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News••February 5, 2025
Seniors Can Apply for Three Property Tax Relief Programs With One Application
Senior homeowners will soon be able to submit a single application to claim benefits from the state’s Senior Freeze program, the Affordable New Jersey Communities for Homeowners and Renters (ANCHOR)…
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Arts & Entertainment••February 5, 2025
Modern Dance 101 at LBI Library
Be part of the revolution that transformed the art of dance from a series of steps to an expression of views. Adults are invited to an “Introduction to Modern Dance” at the Ocean County Library Long…
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Arts & Entertainment••February 5, 2025
Virtual Talk Features Indigenous Author
If an unimaginable calamity befell global infrastructures, everyday life would screech to a halt. But what of people who never fully left their old ways behind? It’s a key point of Waubgeshig Rice’s…
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Arts & Entertainment••February 5, 2025
Online Access Nature Forum Welcomes Founder of Nonprofit Disabled Hikers
What does it mean to build disability community and justice in the outdoors? Why is it important to have leaders with disabilities, and how can allies and organizations be better partners? Join the…
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Business••February 5, 2025
Rejuvie Smoothie Opens With Energy Boosters
Rejuvie Smoothie recently opened in Barnegat Township at 770 Lighthouse Drive, Unit 106A in the Barnegat 67 development.
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News••February 5, 2025
Guilty Pleas in Robbery, Shoplifting Cases
Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer announced that on Jan. 27, Nicholas Santiago, 39, of Barnegat Township pleaded guilty to robbery and shoplifting before Ocean County Superior Court Judge…
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Arts & Entertainment••February 5, 2025
Magic Galore at STAC on Feb. 15
The Stafford Township Arts Center will host Max’s Magic Show at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 15.
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Sports••February 5, 2025
Collins’ Big Second Half Propels Southern Past Toms River North
As a high school freshman four years ago, Casey Collins was focused on basketball, her eyes set on a possible college career. Through the years, her mindset has shifted.
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Sports••February 5, 2025
Barnegat Stays Hot, Pulls Away From Pinelands for Big Divisional Win
After a 4-0 start to the season, the Barnegat boys basketball team had a rough stretch in which head coach Mike Puorro’s Bengals lost five of their next six contests.
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Sports••February 5, 2025
Southern Girls Swimming Squad Adds Historic Feats in Conference Championship Meet
Coach Bill Entrikin has been with the Southern Regional girls swimming program since its inception, but every time he’s turned around this season, his Rams have done something new to make him pinch…
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Sports••February 5, 2025
Barnegat Girls Reach State Swimming Tourney, Fall in First Round
For just a second time in the program’s history, the Barnegat girls swim team earned a position in the NJSIAA South Jersey Group C tournament last week.
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Sports••February 5, 2025
Barnegat Junior Captures Shore Conference Tournament Individual Girls’ Title
Jamie White is on a mission to be the best girls bowler in the state. On Feb. 4, she made Barnegat High School history by capturing the first major individual title of the season.
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News••February 4, 2025
Endangered North Atlantic Right Whale Focus of Wind Energy Impact
As the future of offshore wind energy remains up in the air, proponents and opponents of offshore wind have found common ground in the need to protect the critically endangered North Atlantic right…
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Arts & Entertainment••February 3, 2025
Hear Stories of the Great Migration
When African Americans left the rural South for the northern and western United States, what rituals and rations sustained them and kept them centered? Find out at the Black History Month program…
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News••February 3, 2025
Beach Haven at Odds With Atlantic City Electric
On Monday, Feb. 3 at 10 a.m., Beach Haven officials have scheduled a meeting with representatives of Atlantic City Electric to discuss the utility company’s proposal to activate a battery energy…
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Business••February 2, 2025
9-Year-Old Stafford Resident’s Hat Business a Home Run
Between playing three sports and tackling third grade, 9-year-old Rylan Kostecki leads a busy life, but that hasn’t stopped him from chasing his dreams. With the help of his father, the young athlete…
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Columns••February 1, 2025
With Mission Dance, J.P. LaStella Backs Gavin DeGraw for Presidential Inaugural Ball
For the last decade, the entire shore region has gotten to know the LaStella Brothers, who have practically grown up on stage. Bassist J.P., now 26, and guitarist Jake, now 22, shared candidly with…
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News••January 31, 2025
Little Egg Harbor Police Find, Arrest Individual in ‘Unusual Circumstance’
Little Egg Harbor police have identified and arrested a man who allegedly entered an elderly dementia patient’s home around 10 p.m. on Dec. 1, 2024.
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News••January 31, 2025
Harvey Cedars Beach Replenishment Begins in February
With beach replenishment concluded on the south end of the Island two weeks ago, the project is now heading north.
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News••January 30, 2025
Former Barnegat Resident Experiences Snow in the Big Easy
In spending most of her life in New Jersey, Laura Giannotta has had plenty of experience with snowstorms. When she moved from Barnegat Township to New Orleans 10 years ago, the last thing she…
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News••January 30, 2025
Trump: Drone Usage Sanctioned by FAA, ‘Not the Enemy’
It took seven days from the time President Donald J. Trump returned to office for his administration to confirm what the federal government told the American people about drones flying over New…
