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News••March 30, 2020
LBI School Board Cancels April Meetings
The Long Beach Island Consolidated Board of Education has canceled its regular April meeting as well as a meeting of its strategic planning committee due to the continued social distancing directive…
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News••March 30, 2020
LBI Sewing Brigade Organizes Face Mask-Making Efforts From Home
The LBI Sewing Brigade – online at facebook.com/lbisewingbrigade – is currently at work producing and dispersing masks for area healthcare workers, and the group welcomes any assistance from others…
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Opinion••March 29, 2020
Walking the Walk and Heeding the Talk … for Now
I went for a drive to the park with my family. I asked myself questions I never thought I’d ask myself. Should I have my window open in the car? What if that guy in front of me spits out his window?…
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Business••March 28, 2020
GoFundMe for Laid-Off Workers Posted By LBI Chamber
A GoFundMe for laid-off LBI employees, created March 24 by the LBI Chamber of Commerce, is picking up momentum this weekend, a week after Gov. Murphy ordered nonessential businesses to close in a…
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News••March 28, 2020
AC Electric Warns: Scammers Using Pandemic to Gain Info
Atlantic City Electric warns customers there has been an increase in scam attempts with scammers using the COVID-19 pandemic health crisis to take advantage of energy customers throughout the U.S.…
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Business••March 28, 2020
Yelp Causing Yelps for Unauthorized GoFundMe Business Pages
The online review site Yelp is causing reactions of the same name, as many local business owners were dismayed or embarrassed to find out this week that Yelp and GoFundMe created GoFundMe pages…
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News••March 28, 2020
Postal Offices Deliver Health and Safety Info for COVID-19
With reports of people worried about contracting COVID-19 through the mail and leaving letters and packages in their garages for three days, the U.S. Postal Service has attempted to relieve these…
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Columns••March 28, 2020
This Is No Time to Abandon the Beach; Ticks Are Popping Up Faster Than Daffodils
BEACHBORNE HEALTH: I hate change beyond the average soul; therefore, these are insanely trying times for me. Face it: For the moment, everything in the world has changed. In fact, there are many who…
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News••March 28, 2020
Registration Open for COVID-19 Testing at OCC
With more than 300 applicants, registration for COVID-19 testing at Ocean County College in Toms River is closed for Monday, March 30 – the day the site opens – and county officials are taking…
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Opinion••March 27, 2020
Managing Pandemic Anxiety on LBI: Professional Advice
The coronavirus (COVID-19) is a pandemic. It is present, powerful and persistent. It’s also on beautiful Long Beach Island, as well as elsewhere. Stress, fear and anxiety are the scary triplets of…
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Business••March 28, 2020
The New ‘Essentials:’ State Adds Biking, Gardening, Phone Repair
Cyclists have taken to the streets to spin out some of the stress of coronavirus fears. New Jerseyans ordered to stay at home in this time might wish for the uplifting garden they never had time to…
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News••March 26, 2020
Area Residents Stepping Up as Blood Supplies Are Falling Down
The American Red Cross routinely warns the public of blood shortages during certain points in the year, but the COVID-19 crisis is leading the organization to put out an urgent cry for donations.
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News••March 26, 2020
COVID-19 Test Facility at OCC Opens March 30
The COVID-19 testing facility at Ocean County College will open for preregistered and other qualified residents at 9 a.m., Monday, March 30. Residents must have a doctor’s prescription for the test.
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News••March 26, 2020
Two Women Dead; LBI Health Officials Link Spread of COVID-19 to Birthday Party
Two Long Beach Island women have died after attending a birthday party earlier this month in Barnegat Light where one of the organizers was exposed to COVID-19 while working on assignment in…
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News••March 26, 2020
Some Local Towns Temporarily Prohibiting Short-Term Residential Rentals
Long Beach Township, Ship Bottom, Beach Haven, Barnegat Light and Stafford Township have all executed orders prohibiting short-term rentals (21 days or less) of residential properties in an effort to…
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News••March 26, 2020
Ship Bottom Family Battles Coronavirus, Demands Testing
Little did reporter Alice Stockton-Rossini know when she began covering the coronovirus outbreak in New York that she would unwittingly bring the germs home to Ship Bottom and infect members of her…
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News••March 26, 2020
Positive Cases of COVID-19 Increasing on Long Beach Island, Mainland
On March 18, the Long Beach Island Health Department announced the first positive case of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, on LBI. Joseph Lattanzi, a doctor at Southern Ocean Medical Center, in…
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News••March 26, 2020
Officials Declare LBI Local Disaster Area Ahead of COVID-19 Peak
Long Beach Island has been proclaimed a local disaster area/emergency amid the COVID-19 pandemic as officials prepare for the peak period of the novel coronavirus, expected to come in the next few…
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Arts & Entertainment••March 26, 2020
Little Egg Harbor Local Calista Quinn Competes on ‘American Idol’
Seventeen-year-old pop artist Calista Quinn of Little Egg Harbor has managed to make every moment of her young life count, traveling the country and singing her way to stardom. A young woman with…
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News••March 26, 2020
Barnegat Woman Making Masks for EMTS
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a severe shortage of protective masks, not just in Ocean County but all over the world.
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News••March 26, 2020
Emergency Medical Supplies and Volunteer Shortage Part of Local COVID-19 Concerns
As the number of COVID-19 cases increases across New Jersey, two items are in short supply: N-95 surgical masks and, in some communities, qualified personnel to man the volunteer emergency response…
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News••March 26, 2020
Southern, Stafford Teachers Make Adjustments During First Week of Remote Learning
Dan Dreher claims to have some “odd things” in his home, among them a greenscreen and backlight lamps for the purpose of doing video game streaming. Turns out those “odd” pieces of equipment helped…
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Opinion•March 26, 2020
Great Disinfectant
I am a South Jersey Democrat who is concerned about the openness of the Democratic Congressional nomination process. The arbitrary and undemocratic method in some counties of determining the…
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Opinion•March 26, 2020
Give Us a Break
You love LBI. Your great-great grandfather started coming here every summer. You do not remember a time when you did not come to “the shore house on LBI.” You look forward to LBI every spring. Humans…
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News••March 25, 2020
Tuckerton Couple Open Little Free Library
Trish and Albert O’Neill have been renovating their home at 213 South Green St. this past year, and the very last touch was one of Trish’s dreams, a Little Free Library where residents can walk up…
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Columns••March 26, 2020
Hadrosaurus Foulkii’s Long Journey
Today if you wish to see the restored replica of America’s first dinosaur discovery, uncovered in Haddonfield, N.J., in 1858, you can simply drive to the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton. The story…
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Opinion••March 25, 2020
Wise Words
When Martin Luther was dealing with the Black Death back in 1527, he wrote these wise words that can help inform the way we approach things happening in our world right now.
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News••March 25, 2020
Sheriff: Strict Requirements in Place for COVID-19 Test Facility at OCC
The planned COVID-19 testing site at Ocean County College has an expected capacity for testing 180 preregistered and otherwise qualified county residents a day.
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Business••March 25, 2020
Jetty’s New Rising Tide Initiative to Support Retail Partners in Tough Times
In the summer of 2005, locally based surf and apparel brand Jetty was in its third year of existence. Its apparel line consisted of tees, sweatshirts and a few hats, mostly printed in a local garage.…
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News••March 25, 2020
Cash Toll Collections Suspended on Parkway, Turnpike
The New Jersey Turnpike Authority has suspended cash collections at all toll locations on the Garden State Parkway and the New Jersey Turnpike as a precaution against the spread of COVID-19. All…
