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News••March 26, 2026
Long Beach Township Wins Innovation in Governance Award for Oyster Reef Initiative
Each year the New Jersey State League of Municipalities hosts an award program to highlight exemplary local government programs that provide novel and practical approaches to solving municipal…
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News••March 26, 2026
Top Custom Home Builders Gather on LBI for 20 Club Event
Long Beach Island has earned its reputation as one of the Jersey Shore’s most beloved destinations. Earlier this month, it earned a new distinction: host to some of the most accomplished residential…
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Business••March 26, 2026
Island Businesses New and Old Gear Up for Summer 2026
After 25 years, the Santaguida family has transferred ownership of Surf City Bait and Tackle to Fred Dumont and family, who posted online March 16 they are “truly honored to carry on what’s been…
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News••March 26, 2026
Barnegat Resident Enters Senior Pageant
Barnegat Township resident Larry Adamson’s curiosity was piqued when he saw an advertisement where the Ms. New Jersey Senior America Pageant was seeking contestant entries.
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News••March 26, 2026
Tuckerton School Cuts Eight Full-Time Positions
A second Southern Ocean County school district will eliminate full-time paraprofessionals and classroom aides.
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News••March 26, 2026
Barnegat High School Cites Growth in AP Program
Barnegat High School has seen a marked increase over a three-year period in students enrolling in Advanced Placement classes and the AP exam pass rate.
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Sports••March 26, 2026
Southern Regional Has Potency on Offense, Solid Crew on Defense
The Southern Regional boys lacrosse team had its season ended in the NJSIAA South Jersey Group 4 final by Kingsway last year. Expect the Rams to make another run at a possible sectional championship…
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News••March 25, 2026
Property Owners Shoulder Burden of Costly Affordable Housing Mandates
In a move to protect Surf City and uphold property values, the borough council last week adopted three ordinances to limit state overreach that would impose unwanted developments and undermine local…
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Sports••March 25, 2026
Southern Regional’s Strength Starts With Significant 1-2 Punch in Reilly, Bodony
The Southern Regional boys golf team is so good right now, coach Jeff Reilly didn’t waste any time getting the Rams onto the links to start their season. Before spring had begun, they already had…
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Opinion•March 25, 2026
Reinstate Right on Red
Why is it “No Turn On Red” at the light where Central Avenue southbound meets West Eighth Street in Ship Bottom? I gotta believe the residents on West Seventh Street don’t love the fact that their…
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Arts & Entertainment••March 25, 2026
Ryan Lee Crosby to Bring Deep Blues to Tuckerton
From Mississippi’s oldest juke joint to the Lizzie Rose Music Room in Tuckerton, musician Ryan Lee Crosby is bringing the sounds and traditions of Bentonia-style blues to venues across the country.
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Sports••March 25, 2026
Defending Champion Southern Relies First on Defense
When a girls lacrosse team has a potent pair of offensive weapons who can score goals seemingly at will and do so to the tune of 74 and 50 in one season, the necessity for others to bury bunches of…
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Opinion•March 25, 2026
Illumination Inspiration
When the Roman Empire fell and the world became fractured, in the dark ages, a group of Irish monks got to work. While literacy plummeted, they became obsessed with preserving the seeds of culture…
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News••March 25, 2026
Garden Club of LBI Makes a Fashion Statement
Linking arms in their new leafy-green and sky-blue hoodies and T-shirts, the Garden Club of LBI’s environmental committee members recently met at the Long Beach Island branch of the Ocean County…
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Opinion••March 25, 2026
Holy Week Reflection on Simple Acts, Deep Love
How hard it can be to let someone do something for us when we think we can do it ourselves. For instance, most of us would balk at the idea of allowing any person to wash our feet, let alone the son…
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News••March 25, 2026
Pinelands Alliance Details ‘State of the Pinelands’
Amid growing national uncertainty around environmental protections, the Pinelands Alliance is hoping New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill moves “to strengthen and expand the state’s layered environmental…
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Arts & Entertainment••March 25, 2026
Art Notes, March 25
Winners by Association: An awards reception took place Sunday, March 15 at the Pine Shores Art Association’s Stafford gallery in Manahawkin, for the winners of the student show that is on display…
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Arts & Entertainment••March 25, 2026
Catching Up With Comedian John Poveromo
Making a living in comedy is not for the weak. Ask comedian John Poveromo of Beach Haven West. He’s been at it for two decades, always with multiple irons in the fire, and is still diversifying his…
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Arts & Entertainment••March 25, 2026
Tuckerton Seaport to Welcome Spring With Seasonal Fun
Spring into the new season with family-friendly activities and excitement at the Tuckerton Seaport on Saturday, April 4.
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News••March 25, 2026
Eagleswood Responds to Hollow Pines Overflow Parking
At its March 23 meeting, the Eagleswood Township Committee introduced an amended parking ordinance that would restrict parking in Eagle Ridge Manor, a 24-house subdivision built almost 20 years ago…
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Arts & Entertainment••March 25, 2026
Gift Donations Sought for Maritime Museum Fundraiser
The New Jersey Maritime Museum in Beach Haven is seeking donations of gifts for a gift auction, silent auction and 50/50 raffle for its annual fundraiser scheduled for Saturday, May 2, from 3 p.m. to…
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News••March 25, 2026
Five OCC Students Named Semifinalists for Prestigious Transfer Scholarship
Ocean County College students Ellie Dowek, Laura Garzon Salinas, Anne Nyangaga, Anthony Paris and Sabrina Watts have been named semifinalists for the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Cooke Undergraduate…
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News••March 25, 2026
Beach Haven Eyes Off-Season Water Line Replacement
On Wednesday, April 1, Beach Haven will open bids for replacing water pipes and laterals along Bay Avenue from 12th Street to Amber Street. Borough Manager Sherry Mason said the borough council is…
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Columns••March 25, 2026
Fertilizer Fear Strikes 2026 Farming Season Taking a Hormuz Hit
Spring has finally arrived, landing upon quite a blowdown landscape. Be it yards, streetscapes or, most obviously, woodlands, there is an uncommon showing of downed trees and branches.
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Arts & Entertainment••March 25, 2026
Pioneer Female Brass Musicians to Play Grunin Center
The Grunin Center for the Arts will host a band called the Brass Queens on its main stage at 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 28.
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Arts & Entertainment••March 25, 2026
A ‘Sound’ Program at the LBI Library
Using various instruments, including crystal bowls and chimes, sound therapist Valerie Redzinak will lead a restorative and energetically balanced sound journey experience on Tuesday, March 31 at 2…
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Columns••March 25, 2026
Searching for Clues in Parkway Murders
On Friday, May 30, 1969, two college girls left the Somers Point Diner for Pennsylvania. Their car was found on the Garden State Parkway a few miles away.
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Arts & Entertainment••March 25, 2026
Author’s Focus Is Women in Space
The history of American women astronauts is the theme during a virtual author discussion Thursday, April 2 at 2:30 p.m. presented by Valerie Neal, emerita curator from the Smithsonian’s National Air…
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Arts & Entertainment••March 25, 2026
Learn About the ‘Matilda Effect’
The Stafford branch of the Ocean County Library marks Women’s History Month with a program titled “The Matilda Effect: Celebrating Unrecognized Women in History” on Tuesday, March 31 at 2:30 p.m.
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Opinion••March 25, 2026
OPINION | U.S. Just Can’t Stop Arming the World and Starting Wars
What country introduced nuclear energy to Iran?
