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News••February 14, 2024
Cedar Bridge Tavern May Get Live-In Caretaker
Barnegat Township’s historic Cedar Bridge Tavern may be getting a full-time caretaker who will live on the premises, according to a resolution adopted by the Ocean County Board of Commissioners at…
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Columns••February 14, 2024
AI Goes Natural, Offering Quiet Ways to Watch Wildlife; Gig Economy Not New to the Island
Artificial intelligence is rushing to the wildlife conservation rescue. It’s especially showing in Ecuador, where scientists have set up advanced recording devices capable of gathering wildlife…
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Opinion•February 14, 2024
Sincere Thanks
I would like to offer a sincere thank-you to the Long Beach Township Police Department.
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News••February 14, 2024
After 43 Years, Georgia Shaffery Calls It a Career
Nearly all of the work force in the Barnegat Township Municipal Building was in attendance at the township committee Feb. 6 meeting to honor one of their own, Georgia Shaffery, who as of Feb. 1…
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Business••February 14, 2024
Teen Night a No-Go; Gables Garners Accolade; Love in Air at LBIF
Joe Pop’s in Ship Bottom has retracted the announcement made earlier this month about the weekly Teen Nights that were planned for this summer. The borough of Ship Bottom prohibits such events by…
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News••February 14, 2024
Townsend Takes Barnegat Committee Seat
At its meeting Tuesday morning, the Barnegat Township Committee appointed Jake Townsend to fill the remaining year of William Farmer’s term. Farmer, who was first elected in 2021, announced his…
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Sports••February 14, 2024
Big Revisions Force Bowling Teams into Head-to-Head Matches in State Tourney
There’s been a significant shakeup for the high school bowling state tournament this year. The question is whether it’s going to be good for the sport or a short-lived change.
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Opinion•February 14, 2024
Unions Play Crucial Role – in My Family and Others’
This past year witnessed a renewed enthusiasm for and interest in labor movement action, such as the New Jersey nursing union strike at Robert Wood Johnson and national attention for the United Auto…
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Arts & Entertainment••February 14, 2024
Art Notes, Feb. 14
Look Within: Create a mixed media “sanctuary” of the mind on Tuesday, Feb. 20 at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences in Loveladies. From 1 to 3 p.m., healing arts professional…
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Columns••February 14, 2024
Bitter Battle to Save ‘Barney’ Continues
Walking around Barnegat Lighthouse today cannot give you a picture of what it was like 100 years ago. If you walk around the base of the lighthouse, you realize how close Barnegat Inlet has eroded…
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Arts & Entertainment••February 14, 2024
Irish Soda Bread Sale Taking Orders
The Sons of the American Legion group from American Legion Post 232 in Barnegat Township is doing a homemade Irish soda bread fundraiser.
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Arts & Entertainment••February 14, 2024
Breaking Good at Stockton Performing Arts Center Feb. 16
In the early 1970s there were a number of cultural shifts taking place in the United States. There was the women’s liberation movement, which Philip Morris co-opted to boost its Virginia Slims brand…
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News••February 14, 2024
Ordinances Clarify Easement Landscaping, Off-Street Parking in Long Beach Township
Long Beach Township’s board of commissioners has approved, on first reading, an ordinance that would add a zoning permit requirement to install landscaping that exceeds 12 inches in height in any…
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Arts & Entertainment••February 14, 2024
Bluegrass Turns to Green at Albert Music Hall Show
Music historians have often cited that bluegrass has its origin in Irish, Scottish and English traditional music. That will likely be pointed out when the Albert Music Hall in Waretown holds an…
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Arts & Entertainment••February 14, 2024
Lacey Library Presents Pete Wagula in Concert
The Ocean County Library’s Lacey branch will present local musician Pete Wagula in concert on Saturday, Feb. 17 at 2 p.m.
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News••February 14, 2024
New Jersey Launches School Bus Electrification Program
New Jersey has commenced a new, groundbreaking program to provide up to $45 million in funding over three years for school districts and school bus operators to replace diesel school buses with…
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Arts & Entertainment••February 14, 2024
Winter Book Sale Planned Feb. 17
On a cold day when you want to be indoors, that’s the ideal time to curl up to a good book.
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Arts & Entertainment••February 14, 2024
LIFS Brings Back ‘Rose,’ One of the Favorite Films at 2023 LIFF
The Lighthouse International Film Society, the St. Francis Center Counseling Service and Ocean County College are joining to present a screening of the 2022 Danish film “Rose” at 1 p.m. on Tuesday…
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News••February 14, 2024
Stay Vigilant to Energy-Related Scams, Atlantic City Electric Warns
Atlantic City Electric customers lost more than $205,000 to phone scams in 2023 – nearly 30% more than the previous year. Candice Womer, senior communications specialist at ACE, said the company has…
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News••February 14, 2024
Coast Guard Distress Training Reaches New Heights
Smoke on the water and fire in the sky wasn’t about lyrics to a classic rock song for some graduates of the U.S. Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, who participated in pyrotechnic exercises in…
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Arts & Entertainment••February 14, 2024
‘Belles’ Is Staged at Toms River Library Feb. 21
The Ocean County Library’s Toms River branch presents the Guild Theatreworks production of Mark Dunn’s bittersweet dramatic comedy “Belles” in Mancini Hall on Wednesday, Feb. 21 at 6:30 p.m.
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Arts & Entertainment••February 14, 2024
‘Species on the Edge 2.0’ Contest Open to NJ High School Students
High schoolers from throughout New Jersey can win scholarship money by entering Conserve Wildlife Foundation’s 2024 “Species on the Edge 2.0” contest, which involves the creation of a video to bring…
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Arts & Entertainment••February 14, 2024
This Subject Will Be a Hell of a Book
How is the black experience in America reflected in works of fiction? What are the hidden costs of injustice for black citizens, and for all Americans?
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Arts & Entertainment••February 14, 2024
Barnegat Bay Partnership Director Leads Feb. 17 Science Saturday
The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences will welcome Barnegat Bay Partnership’s Stan Hales for the next installment of Science Saturday, scheduled for 11 a.m. Feb. 17, on Zoom.…
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News••February 14, 2024
Republicans Select Candidates for Stafford Council Seat
With Robert Henken now serving as Stafford Township’s mayor, somebody soon will need to fill the chair sitting empty on the township council. The county Republican committee representing the township…
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Sports••February 14, 2024
Newsome, Wildcats Score Pair of Wins in Coaches Cup Tourney
Even though the Pinelands Regional boys basketball team didn’t qualify for the conference or state tournaments, there’s no doubt head coach Fred Johnson wants his Wildcats to finish the season…
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News••February 13, 2024
District 9 Legislators to Murphy: Stop the Toll Hikes
In a recent letter to the Murphy administration, District 9 legislators Sen. Carmen Amato and Assemblymen Brian Rumpf and Greg Myhre called on the governor to veto the New Jersey Turnpike Authority…
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Arts & Entertainment••February 12, 2024
Custom Floral Design Brings Welcome Challenges
The three-dimensional art of floral design combines elements of various creative disciplines. In floristry, processing a fresh shipment is like preparing an artist’s palette, but the medium is far…
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News••February 11, 2024
Germain Retiring as Barnegat Police Chief
Saying he had “accomplished everything” he had set out to do, Barnegat Police Chief Keith Germain announced his retirement at the township committee meeting Tuesday, Feb. 6.
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News••February 10, 2024
Henken Ready to Throw Around Some Dad Jokes, Get to Work as Mayor
Still a young man not out of college for too long, Robert Henken returned to his hometown of Brick in the early 1990s after many years living in Wapheton, N.D., where he had raced motorcycles.
