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News••August 21, 2019
Alliance for a Living Ocean Looks to Get to the Bottom of Beach Trash
Alliance for a Living Ocean Executive Director Kyle Gronostajski and intern Kassidy Peterson have spent Friday mornings this summer sorting through hundreds of pounds of sand and seaweed collected by…
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Arts & Entertainment••August 21, 2019
NJ Maritime Museum Fundraiser Has Prohibition Theme
The 100th anniversary of the start of Prohibition is thetheme forthe New Jersey Maritime Museum’s annual fundraiser on Saturday, Sept. 14,from 5 to 10 p.m. The museum is located at 528 Dock Rd. in…
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News••August 21, 2019
Surfing Group Donates $5,000 to Harvey Cedars Beach Patrol for LIT Program
Through many years of surfing, Tanner and Dane Gudauskas have become intimately knowledgeable and respectful of the world’s oceans. Nowadays, they not only enjoy their time on, in and with those…
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News••August 21, 2019
Stafford School Board Approves New Administrators Association Contract
Roughly 14 months after the Stafford Township Board of Education and Stafford Township Education Association finalized a new contract for STEA members, the board in its meeting on Aug. 15 approved…
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Arts & Entertainment••August 21, 2019
Mom and Daughter Facetime Dad at Manahawkin Home from Keith Urban’s Stage
Meghan Castro is a big Keith Urban fan. BIG. She has seen him seven times over the course of her brief 17 years. So whenthe Manahawkin teengraduated from Southern Regional High School this past…
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News••August 21, 2019
OceanFirst Bank Contributes to Tuckerton Seaport’s Nautical Education
Tuckerton Seaport and Baymen’s Museum has been awarded a three-year OceanFirst grant totaling $150,000 for the OceanFirst Floating Classroom. The Seaport’s goal for 2019 is to offer on-water…
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Arts & Entertainment••August 21, 2019
Frank Fotusky and Chuck Lambert at Lizzie Rose
The full moon was on the rise, peeking in and out between the Victorian peaks of the Lizzie Rose Music Room in Tuckerton on an unseasonably cool night last Thursday. Clouds scudded across the sky…
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News••August 21, 2019
Save a Sea Turtle and Look Classy Doing It
This jewelry makes a statement that also helps save sea turtles. A collection of enameled pieces with an ocean life theme shines in a glass case at Gemini Jewelry Designs LLC in Surf City, as if…
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Arts & Entertainment••August 21, 2019
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News••August 21, 2019
Williams: Migrants at US-Mexico Border Have ‘Soccer Fields, TV, Video Games’
Despite the municipal attorney’s advice not to discuss personal viewpoints from the dais, Stafford Township Councilman George Williams unapologetically defended his recent online behavior as his…
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News••August 21, 2019
Stafford News in Brief
Stafford Township has joined the Pinelands Municipal Council, a first in 10 years, Mayor Greg Myhre announced at the Aug. 13 township municipal meeting. He is the town’s designated representative on…
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News••August 21, 2019
Little Egg Harbor Police Bitten Twice When Responding to Calls for Assistance
The Little Egg Harbor Police Department is asking the public to please leash and confine their dogs when officers respond to calls for help.
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News••August 21, 2019
Ocean County Offers Services to ‘Displaced Homemakers’
Ocean County has assistance for those homemakers who have experienced a downturn in their economic situation: the loss of primary income because of separation, divorce, death, disability or serious…
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News••August 21, 2019
Ocean County to Replace Pontoon Boat
Ocean County is beginning the process of replacing its pontoon boat, the Bay Cruiser, according to Christopher Claus, chief park naturalist for Ocean County Parks.
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News••August 21, 2019
Catching Up With the Roadkill Cleanup Crew
We’ve all seen it. There, on the side of the road, maybe off in the weeds and tall grasses growing just off the pavement on a desolate road somewhere out in the pines. Or maybe on a neighborhood…
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Arts & Entertainment••August 21, 2019
Ocean County Library Participates in ‘Water Ways’
New Jersey is shaped by water, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Raritan River, Lake Hopatcong to the Delaware Bay. Our lives are shaped by water, too. From recreation and travel, water management and…
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Arts & Entertainment••August 21, 2019
Catboat Race Competitors Sought in Harvey Cedars
Harvey Cedars’ summer activities come to a traditional end with the catboat races on Sunday, Sept. 1, off Sunset Park. The rain date is Monday, Sept. 2, same time. The event begins with a skippers…
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News••August 20, 2019
Four Seek Office in Harvey Cedars Commission Race
Two incumbents and two newcomers have filed to run in the race forthe three-seat Harvey Cedars Commission election in November.
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News••August 20, 2019
Harvey Cedars Taxpayers Annual Gathering Saturday
The Harvey Cedars Taxpayers Association holds its annual general membership meeting on Saturday, Aug. 24, at 10 a.m. at the High Point Volunteer Fire Co. firehouse. Association Vice President…
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Arts & Entertainment••August 20, 2019
Free Lecture About Genocide ‘Bystanders’ at Stockton at Manahawkin
Stockton University adjunct faculty member Steven Marcus will present a lecture called “The Bystander: Then and Now” at Stockton University at Manahawkin from 10 to 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 28.…
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News••August 20, 2019
Coast Guard Airlifts Injured Woman After Two Boats Collide on Barnegat Bay
An unidentified woman was airlifted by the U.S. Coast Guard Sunday afternoon after a recreational boat she was a passenger on and which ran aground in Barnegat Bay was struck in the side by another…
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News••August 20, 2019
Surf City Hotel Opens Outdoor Dining Porch
Ceremonial scissors snapped the wide, blue ribbon Friday, and the open-air dining porch at the Surf City Hotel welcomed its first guests.
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Arts & Entertainment••August 20, 2019
Stafford Library ‘Friends’ Going to Surflight Show
The Friends group of the Stafford branch of the Ocean CountyLibrary has reservations available to see the musical “Boynton Beach Club” on Sunday, Sept. 15, at 2 p.m. at Surflight Theatre in Beach…
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News••August 20, 2019
Barnegat Police Probe Report of Gunshots
On Sunday at 2:20 a.m., Barnegat Township police responded to a reportof gunshots heardon Lexington Boulevard. Lt. Jeff Ryan said there were no injuries and there are no descriptions of any suspects.…
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News••August 20, 2019
Hundreds Light Nautilus Park in Memory of Tim Kohlheim
On Saturday night, Aug. 17, community members flooded Nautilus Park in Manahawkin by the hundreds to remember Shore Fire Grille founder Tim Kohlheim in a powerful candlelight vigil that lit an entire…
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Columns••August 20, 2019
When ‘Game Wardens’ Make Presence Known; Pickerel Fishing Hooks Passing PETA Mom
The New Jersey Conservation Officers Association page on Facebook is always a fascinating read. It carries reports of its fish and wildlife enforcement activities. And, yes, those Conservation Police…
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News••August 20, 2019
Blue-Green Algae Should Make Dog Owners Wary
If you take your pooches to freshwater lakes, ponds or slow-moving rivers so they can take a refreshing dip, you could be threatening their health and even their lives, due to a phenomenon new – at…
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Arts & Entertainment••August 19, 2019
Neigborhood Watch Group Invites Community to Block Party Aug. 25
Since forming nearly two years ago, a neighborhood block watch program in the Settler’s Landing development in Barnegat Township has been making major inroads. Block watch coordinatorLaura Zinger…
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Arts & Entertainment••August 19, 2019
Blood Drive at Barnegat Library on Aug. 27
While summer may mean vacations and family fun at the Jersey Shore, all this activity could also result in more medical emergencies, especially with increased traffic on the roads and people enjoying…
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News••August 19, 2019
Statewide ‘Drive Sober’ Initiative Underway
Police agencies from around New Jersey are gearing up for the state’s largest annual drunken driving crackdown. The 2019 “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” Statewide Labor Day Crackdown began last…
