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Arts & Entertainment••May 15, 2023
Tuckerton Is Destination for Iconic DeLoreans
Distinctive gullwinged, stainless-steel paneled DMC-12 DeLoreans are garaged for the winter, so it’s an event when the DeLorean Mid-Atlantic Club emerges for the spring social. Challenged by a rainy…
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News••May 13, 2023
Parking Debate Leads to Concessions at Ship Bottom Land Use Board Meeting
It is rare, if not completely unheard of, for a food establishment on Long Beach Island to have enough onsite parking for its customers. The owners of Burger 25 in Ship Bottom accomplished that feat…
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Arts & Entertainment••May 12, 2023
Meet the Mayor, Administrator on June 1
The last Friends of the Stafford Library monthly program prior to the summer break will feature Stafford Township Mayor Greg Myhre and Township Administrator Matthew von der Hayden on Thursday, June…
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News••May 12, 2023
State Law Limiting Single-Use Plastics Praised a Year After Passage
Environmental groups throughout New Jersey are joining the Murphy administration in applauding the significant decrease in plastic litter one year after the state implemented a law restricting…
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News••May 11, 2023
Mustache Bill’s, for Sale, Serves Up One More Legendary Year
“Mustache Bill,” then Bill Smith, was a teenager washing dishes for sharp-witted diner owner Joe Sprague in Barnegat Light when he heard, “Hey, can you catch an egg?”
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News••May 11, 2023
Jen’s Links Remains as New Owners Take Over Barnegat Light Miniature Golf Course
Days after the new year began, Scott Mason received a text from his daughter Aly, linking to an Instagram post.
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News••May 11, 2023
Driver Who Killed Teenage Girl While Driving Impaired Sentenced to 17 Years
A court case that many Southern Ocean County residents have been following for over two years reached its conclusion last Friday.
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Sports••May 11, 2023
Fowler, Pinelands Defense Keep Barnegat in Check, Wildcats Grab First Win
As Jake Fowler toed the rubber on the pitcher’s mound in the bottom of the first inning on May 8, it was one of those rare occasions this season in which he had a lead with which to work. A two-run…
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Arts & Entertainment••May 11, 2023
Disc Golfers Threw the Distance in Cecily’s Memory, Despite Downpours
Nothing could thwart the disc golfers’ commitment to the game – not even the torrential rain and flooding that added natural water hazards (think lakes of mud) to their hilly, wooded course.
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Arts & Entertainment••May 11, 2023
Lighthouse Film Festival Screens Premieres Galore This Year
The Lighthouse International Film Festival will be bigger than ever in 2023, so much bigger that an extra day had to be added to its calendar.
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Arts & Entertainment••May 11, 2023
Blues Icon Dana Fuchs Seizes ‘Borrowed Time’ at Lizzie Rose Music Room
When it comes to live music, it’s never too early to pregame for summer, and the Lizzie Rose Music Room has set the bar high week after week. Last Saturday’s sold-out barnburner featuring…
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Arts & Entertainment••May 11, 2023
Barnegat Historical Society Enjoying a Revival
At this time last year, the Barnegat Township Historical Society was in danger of disbanding if it could not recruit some new members.
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Opinion•May 11, 2023
Slow Going
It seems that the construction at the intersection of Route 72 and Marsha Drive is taking an extremely long time. I think if the construction company would have spent more than two days a week on the…
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Arts & Entertainment••May 11, 2023
Art Notes, May 10
Beauty and the Beach: Oil painter Nadine Yura’s new solo exhibit is up at the Barnegat branch of the Ocean County Library through May. Her new collection of paintings “celebrates the color, joy and…
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Opinion••May 11, 2023
How Can Beach Haven Boost Its Civil, Civic Engagement?
I found it challenging to sit through some of the more recent Beach Haven Council meetings. Public decorum during topics such as pickleball expansion, skate park locations and maintaining green space…
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Arts & Entertainment••May 11, 2023
June 8 Deadline for Jersey Shore Photo Contest
Capture the picturesque sand and sea of the Garden State’s coastline and send the shot to New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium’s “Favorite Beaches of the Jersey Shore” photo contest to be considered for…
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News••May 11, 2023
Tuckerton Introduces 2023 Budget
During Tuckerton borough’s May 1 council meeting, Councilman Brian Martin introduced the municipal budget for fiscal year 2023. Council approved total general appropriations of $5,244,962 with local…
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News••May 11, 2023
Divide Deepens as Offshore Wind Development Moves Forward
As offshore wind survey work enters what appears to be its final months off the coast of New Jersey, proponents and opponents are amping up their positions on whether it has played a role in the…
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Opinion•May 10, 2023
Save America
Not to throw in the towel, but it’s become painfully obvious that the major parties or their globalist puppet masters control the country. This occurs mainly through the Democrat Party, but also the…
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Opinion•May 10, 2023
LBI Dreamin’
My father-in-law, Arie Hoffmann, came to visit a few days ago from Southern California. He has been dreaming of the Island since he left last year. The air, the sea, the smell and the people – he…
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News••May 10, 2023
Lower Limits on the Roads Return as Summer ’23 Arrival Looms
Red light, yellow light, green light, go. The unofficial start of summer on Long Beach Island is less than three weeks away, but before the full impact of the busy season arrives, the least favorite…
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Arts & Entertainment••May 10, 2023
Revolutionary War Author Speaking at Manahawkin’s Old Baptist Church
The Enemy Harassed is about George Washington’s New Jersey campaign of 1777, and the author who will be speaking May 20 at the Old Baptist Church in Manahawkin was nominated for the James Fenimore…
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Arts & Entertainment••May 10, 2023
Bellarine Theatre Company’s Junior Troupe Is Back in Business
The Bellarine Theatre Company will be performing the musical “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Jr.” in the Stafford Township Arts Center, located at 1000 McKinley Ave., Manahawkin, at 7 p.m. on May 12 and 13…
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News••May 10, 2023
Documentary Film, Tuckerton Gathering Favor Ocean Wind Farms
A new short documentary film regarding ocean wind farms, directed by Jon Coen, premiered on Sunday evening, May 7 at the Union Market, located at the Tuckerton Seaport in Tuckerton.
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News••May 10, 2023
SOMC Nurses to Picket on May 13 to Explain Staffing Worries
The nurses of Hackensack Meridian Health’s Southern Ocean Medical Center in Stafford Township will be holding an informational picket outside the hospital from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, May 13.
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Arts & Entertainment••May 10, 2023
Maritime Museum Fundraiser Returns With a Flourish
Approximately 300 people dropped by Bird & Betty’s in Beach Haven on May 6 to participate in the New Jersey Maritime Museum annual fundraiser, which had not been held since September 2019 due to the…
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News••May 10, 2023
Pickleball May Land in Beach Haven Ballot Box
The fate of six additional pickleball courts at the Nelson Avenue facility in Beach Haven may rest in the hands of voters.
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News••May 10, 2023
Little Egg Harbor Police Dept. Joins HERO Campaign
The Little Egg Harbor Police Department, along with Mayor Blaise Scibetta and Committeeman Ken Laney, welcomed the John R. Elliott HERO Campaign to their community.
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Columns••May 10, 2023
Where Did the Whiskey Go?
During the winter of 1923, suspicious activities around an island just inside Barnegat Inlet owned by Lakewood millionaire George J. Gould led to one of the largest Prohibition raids in Ocean County…
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Arts & Entertainment••May 10, 2023
Democratic Coalition Sponsoring ‘Drift’ Screening
The Democratic Coalition of Ocean County sponsors a screening of Save Barnegat Bay’s documentary film, “Drift,” on Sunday, May 21 at 2 p.m. at the Barnegat Community and Recreation Center, 900 West…
