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Opinion•July 10, 2019
Shack Backup
I very much enjoyed the June 19 article about the team of painters gathering together to create a mural of The Shack. I was further surprised and pleased to read my name and work, “Accurate Drawings…
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Opinion•July 10, 2019
Professional Lifesavers
We were enjoying the spectacular Fourth of July in the ocean with our grandchildren when conditions started changing rapidly. A very large riptide developed. The beach patrol quickly hauled in about…
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Opinion•July 10, 2019
Preservation Thanks
The citizens of the Bayview Park Pond Preservation Group, made up of Brant Beach homeowners, neighbors and other concerned citizens, would like to thank Mayor Mancini andthe Long Beach Township…
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Opinion•July 10, 2019
Too Congested
I am not in favor of the entertainment center project at the old CVS. This area of town is too congested with auto traffic as it is. We have new condos opening directly in this area and even that…
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Opinion•July 10, 2019
Handle With Care
The Commentary by John Imperiale (“Constitution Correction Course – It Is Time to Use Article V,” 6/26), while containing a few good points that Congress should address, also contains empirical…
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Opinion••July 10, 2019
Social Justice Warrior Rapinoe Tests the Limits of My Patriotism
Growing up I was not really aware of my patriotism, or lack thereof. My parents, both children of the Depression, never spent much time discussing it. I knew I was to put my cap over my heart and…
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Opinion•July 10, 2019
Reforms Needed
I read with great interest, Mr. Imperiale’s Commentary on the Article V convention. I have been following the subject for almost 20 years and it was refreshing to see someone discuss it in plain…
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Arts & Entertainment••July 10, 2019
The Pettis Take Surf City
The sounds of a father and daughter’s blended creative talents filled the air at Wally’s Restaurant in Surf City last Friday evening as their music accompanied patrons’ dinner or dessert.
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News••July 10, 2019
LBI Native’s New Book an Insider’s Account of Charter Schools, From Idea to National Movement
In early summer 1996, following the passage in January of the Charter School Program Act – which authorized the state commissioner of education to establish a charter school program – Sarah Tantillo…
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News••July 10, 2019
Foster’s Market Site Gets Rehabilitation Designation
A resolution adopted by the Beach Haven Borough Council Monday night designates the Foster’s Farm Market building as an area in need of rehabilitation. Closed since last fall, the building is located…
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Arts & Entertainment••July 10, 2019
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News••July 10, 2019
LBI Traffic Delays a Combination of the 4th of July Holiday, Rental Turnovers, and Thunderstorm
Even before Saturday’s thunderstorm ripped through the area, traffic on Long Beach Island reached epic proportions. It began as early as Wednesday morning when traffic was clogged on Long Beach…
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Columns••July 10, 2019
When LBI’s White Sands of Time Run Out; Kingfish Showing Just Keeps on Keepin’ On
Last week, I did a hot decidedly short walk in the Pines, taking some stoppage time to admire the area’s famed sugar sand. And it truly is white as said sugar, if not whiter. Walking atop it, I…
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News••July 10, 2019
Donald Muller Returns to Southern Ocean County
Just when the Rev. Canon Donald Muller thought he was out, they pulled him back in. The Episcopal priest and his wife, Lynn, had retired to Barnegat Township in July 2018. But that same month the…
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News••July 10, 2019
Healing in the Kitchen, Culinary Medicine Topic of Talk at SUMIS
“Culinary Medicine” was the topic of a talk given by Anthony Dissen, a plant-based dietitian, public nutritionist and integrative community health educator, at the Stockton University Manahawkin…
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News••July 10, 2019
Airbnb Amendment on Governor’s Desk
A bill that would exempt homeowners from paying the new Airbnb tax is on Gov. Murphy’s desk. It affects accommodations being rented directly from shore homeowners. NJ A4814 makes transient…
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News••July 10, 2019
Surf City Business Owner Overcomes Brain Injury, Adapts to ‘New Normal’ and Launches Nonprofit
In 2015, Nancy Norton, owner of The Good Life in Surf City, was hit by a car and suffered a concussion, a brain injury from whichit would take her almost four years to recover. The light at the end…
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Arts & Entertainment••July 10, 2019
Michael D’Amore Singing at JCC of LBI July 21
On Sunday evening, July 21, Michael D’Amore will be entertaining at a cabaret style performance at the Jewish Community Center of LBI, 2411 Long BeachBlvd. in the Spray Beach section of Long Beach…
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News••July 10, 2019
Sunsations Shines With Renovation
A million dollars in renovations is showing at Sunsations in Ship Bottom. Sunsations and Island Breeze are open at 2210 Long BeachBlvd. in the building that is totally remodeled, and Sugar Kingdom…
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News••July 10, 2019
Barnegat Bay Beach Will Be Unprotected This Summer
Unable to staff the Barnegat Township bay bathing beach with lifeguards, the township has announced the area of Bayshore Drive will be unguardedthis summer. Speaking at the July 2 township committee…
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Arts & Entertainment••July 10, 2019
Manahawkin Husband-Wife Tandem Answers the Call and Brings the Heat
The flashbacks were real, folks. Crawling along on Route 72, then through the Causeway, followed by a ridiculous amount of stop-and-go nonsense through Surf City felt as if I were back in my mid-20s…
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Columns••July 10, 2019
Fire Rips Through the Pines
Cedar Bridge Tavern today is the centerpiece for Ocean County’s Parks Department. It stands alone in a clearing surrounded by forest, but twice during the 20th century the historic site was on the…
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Columns••July 10, 2019
Missing Waves and Missing Friends; Plus A Potential Tropical Storm and the Meat of Summer Events
I’ve decided that I miss my friends. Yes, even on a 4th of July with the humanity at 100 percent on this skinny Island, I felt a bit lonely.
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News••July 10, 2019
Barnegat Light, Beach Haven Among Favorite Beaches in NJ Sea Grant Annual Poll
To help usher in the July 4 holiday, the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium announced, at the end of June, the winners of this year’s “Favorite Beaches” poll in a ceremony held in Ocean City. While that…
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Arts & Entertainment••July 10, 2019
The Amazing Kreskin at the Lizzie Rose in Tuckerton July 27
Now for something entirely different: The AmazingKreskin, world-renownedmentalist, is appearing at the Lizzie Rose Music Room in Tuckerton on Saturday, July 27, at 7:30 p.m. The AmazingKreskin, with…
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Arts & Entertainment••July 10, 2019
Take a Van Tour of Beach Haven With the Long Beach Island Historical Society
Beach Haven historian Jeanette Lloyd will give two van tours of Beach Haven this summer. The first is on Wednesday, July 17, at 10 a.m. beginning in front of the Long Beach Island Museum, 129…
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Arts & Entertainment••July 10, 2019
‘Late Night’ Worth Price; Hemsworth and Neeson Make It Work; ‘Shaft’ Still Dig-able
Our films this week are dominated by two dynamic presences: the statuesque figure of British actor Emma Thompson and the looming presence of U.S. actor Samuel L. Jackson. While Thompson stars in two…
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Arts & Entertainment••July 10, 2019
Learn About ‘The Amazing Osprey’ at Beach Haven Library
The Beach Haven Public Library presents “The Amazing Osprey: Monitoring and Managing New Jersey’s Official Bird of Summer” on Tuesday, July 23, at 10:30 a.m. Guest speaker Ben Wurst, habitat program…
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News••July 10, 2019
‘Follow the Shell’: Bay to Table to Bay the Cycle for Oyster Recycling Program
Long Beach Township, Jetty, the Jetty Rock Foundation, Stockton University and Parsons Seafood are in the business of shell. Three days a week throughout the summer, and less frequently in the…
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News••July 10, 2019
Ship Bottom Council Reappoints Fenimore to Land Use Board
Two months after William Fenimore resigned from the Ship Bottom Land Use Board amid concerns his serving as president of the Long Beach Island Consolidated Board of Education was a conflict of…
