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News••April 23, 2020
Officials Trying to Figure Out New Summer Norm for LBI
With all the debate about reopening America as the coronavirus curve flattens and heads downward, there are added considerations on LBI, which in normal times would be ramping up for a summer tourist…
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News••April 23, 2020
Community Rallies for Ship Bottom Surfer Fighting Cancer
Suddenly, Patrick Harrington’s bayside street in Ship Bottom was a parade of cars and cheers and music. Harrington’s parents had ushered him to the family’s front yard on a sunny day last week…
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News••April 23, 2020
Barnegat Teacher Featured on ‘Learning Live’
Erich Wald, chorus teacher at the Russell O. Brackman Middle School in Barnegat Township, recently participated in NJTV Learning Live’s first week of programming. The programs are virtual lessons for…
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News••April 23, 2020
Ship Bottom Couple, Both in 90s, Survive COVID-19, Celebrate 70 Years Married
After weeks of battling for their lives, their suffering magnified by the loss of dear friends and family members, Jackie and Stacy Stockton, 90 and 92, of Ship Bottom have persevered against…
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News••April 23, 2020
NJDEP Files Civil Charges Against Youths Who Set Spring Hill Fire
The N.J. Department of Environmental Protection’s Forest Fire Service has filed civil charges against five young adults for having set the 2019 Spring Hill Fire that burned 11,638 acres in Bass River…
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News••April 23, 2020
State Wildlife Management Areas Open for Trout Fishing
Although state and county parks have been closed due to the coronavirus, the N.J. Department of Environmental Protections’s Division of Fish and Wildlife wants anglers to know the 356,886 acres of…
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News••April 23, 2020
Barnegat High School Swim Team Delivers for St. Francis Food Pantry
Emily Cherry is the kind of coach who’s always in touch with the athletes on her squad, even during the offseason. And several weeks back, when most of the Barnegat High School swimmers were…
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News••April 23, 2020
County Firefighters’ Group Donates Baby Monitors to Hospitals
Each hospital in Ocean County now has several video baby monitors to use in the care of coronavirus patients, thanks to the New Jersey State Firemen’s Mutual Benevolent Association Local 98, made of…
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Columns••April 23, 2020
Running Down to the Wire
In November 1959, the cranberry industry was dealt a devastating blow when Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Arthur Flemming announced there had been seizures of cranberries grown in the…
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News••April 22, 2020
Police Charge Two New York Men in Little Egg Harbor Shooting
Law enforcement has charged two Long Island, N.Y., men with the shooting of a man on Center Street in Little Egg Harbor on the night of April 3. Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer and…
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News••April 22, 2020
Friendly Sons of Shillelagh Bring Easter to Healthcare Workers and Needy Children
The Ocean County Friendly Sons of Shillelagh is a fraternal order of men who celebrate their Irish heritage. The organization strives to help those in need in the Ocean County area with a focus on…
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Business••April 22, 2020
Marinas Cleared for Limited Operations
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont on Saturday, April 18, announced marinas, boatyards and marine manufacturers will be allowed to open for…
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Arts & Entertainment••April 22, 2020
Art Notes April 22
Virtual Ramsay: Although artist Linda Ramsay had to cancel her annual Spring Studio Tour at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, she has been working all through the winter on…
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Business••April 22, 2020
Customers at Off the Hook Donating to Others
Many customers are in the spirit of giving, the operators of Viking Fresh Off the Hook are finding. As the takeout/delivery service stays active at the Barnegat Light establishment adjacent to the…
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Opinion•April 22, 2020
Pizza Pick-Me-Up
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News••April 22, 2020
Van Drew and Kim Have Big Leads Money-Wise Over All Oponents
Money makes the world go round, especially the political world.
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Opinion•April 22, 2020
Hold Him Accountable
Well, it should now be obvious to all that President Trump is ill-prepared and incapable of handling a real emergency.
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News••April 22, 2020
Hope Lives: Southern Regional Superintendent, Administration Wait to See ‘Which Plans We Pluck’
Despite the uncertainty of anything beyond it, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s announcement that schools will remain closed to their student bodies and most staff until May 15 was met with optimism by…
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News••April 22, 2020
Association Looks Ahead to 2021 Implementation of Food Waste Recycling Act
The Association of New Jersey Recyclers, which represents both public and private recycling operations statewide, is applauding the approval as law, earlier this month, of the Food Waste Recycling…
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Opinion•April 22, 2020
Coronavirus Lesson
It’s a terrible thing China did to the whole world by not releasing information about the coronavirus. However, we can all learn a valuable lesson from this dire situation we are in.
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Opinion•April 22, 2020
Disrespectful Opinions
A few years ago, my husband and I took all the savings we had, working way past our retirement age, and with substantial debt bought our little house by the bay on LBI, our lifelong dream. Since then…
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Opinion•April 22, 2020
Free Press, Free Country
I agree with Florence Conway (“Backbone of the Free,” 4/8). A free press is the backbone of a free country – a press that is free of bias, that limits opinion to its editorial page/program, and gives…
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Opinion••April 22, 2020
Earth Day Turns 50 Amid Increasing Challenges
Fifty years ago, people took to streets and campuses across America to sound the alarm on pollution and demand stronger environmental protections.
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Opinion•April 22, 2020
What Can Happen
The following, passed along to me by a friend, is a good example of what can happen if we open things up too soon. People need to be made aware of the fact that history repeats itself.
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Opinion••April 22, 2020
One Isn’t the Loneliest Number During a Pandemic
At the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, I hounded my younger sister, a former public health planner/educator for New York City before founding her own consulting company, about numbers. For a…
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News••April 22, 2020
Tentative Deal Reached With Barnegat Schools Superintendent
The Barnegat Township Board of Education’s negotiations committee recently agreed on a five-year contract with District Superintendent Brian Latwis.
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News••April 22, 2020
LBI Handling of COVID-19 Response From Taxpayer Groups Mostly Positive
Change is on the horizon. When it will arrive isn’t completely known – yet. From Gov. Phil Murphy’s perspective earlier this week, changes to the state’s COVID-19 restrictions are somewhere between…
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News••April 22, 2020
FulFill Signs Direct Needy to Food Pantries
Signs directing people to text “Find Food” or call 888-918-2729 to learn about open food pantries are popping up all over Tuckerton and Little Egg Harbor, said Tuckerton Mayor Sue Marshall during the…
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News••April 22, 2020
Plowing Through a Pandemic, Southern Regional Food Bank Helps Families for Easter
A few weeks before Robyn DellaValle retired from the Southern Regional School District last year, she was talking to Tracey Adams about the school’s internal food bank. For some 10 years, DellaValle…
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Opinion•April 22, 2020
Lack of Transparency
I am writing to you to express my concern regarding the lack of transparency by the Barnegat Township Committee and their use of the consent agenda.
