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News••March 6, 2019
LBI Fly Kite Festival Spreading Its Wings Amid Traffic Safety Concerns
As the saying goes, you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink. The same is seemingly true when it comes to event attendees who didn’t heed Ship Bottom officials’ push to use shuttle…
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News••March 6, 2019
Barnegat Grad a Typhoon Tracker in Hawaii
When he graduated from Barnegat High School in 2017, Ethan Carrodus was very certain about his future plans. He followed the footsteps of his father and grandfather and enlisted in the U.S. Navy.
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Opinion••March 6, 2019
2019 Words to the Unwise: Terms to Reconsider Using
At the end of the year, many word-lovers (philologists) like to reflect on what “the word” of the year was. According to the American Dialect Society, a venerable, 130-year-old organization, its…
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News••March 6, 2019
Surf City’s Proposed Fire Pit Ordinance Aims to Protect Air Quality, Maintain Neighborhood Feeling
If the cold weather expected this week is any indication of how wrong Punxsutawney Phil was a month ago, the borough council might be right on the mark discussing fire pit usage in Surf City.
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News••March 6, 2019
Barnegat School Board to Hold Meeting on Reconfiguration Plan March 14
By September, the Barnegat School District is looking to implementa reconfiguration plan that, among other changes, would result in the four elementary schools housing two grades rather than…
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Arts & Entertainment••March 6, 2019
Get Birdwatching Primer During Wings Over LBI
To learn more about winter birding, the Southern Ocean Birding Group will host the10th annual Wings Over Long Beach Island Day on Saturday, March 16, beginning at 11 a.m. at the Long Beach Island…
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Arts & Entertainment••March 6, 2019
Stages Festival Has March Events at Area Libraries
The New Jersey Theatre Alliance presents numerous productions across area branches of the Ocean County Library during March. These events are part of the Stages Festival, the state’s largest annual…
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News••March 6, 2019
Walters Opening Cornerstone At Stafford in This Month
Walters Group Apartments has nearly completed construction of Cornerstone At Stafford, which will bring 100 premium age (55-plus) and income-restricted residences to Manahawkin.
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Arts & Entertainment••March 6, 2019
Financial Education Workshop: ‘Improve Your Credit Score’
Not everyone may know the St. Francis Community Center has a Financial Success Center — it does, and it’s holding a Financial Education Workshop on Thursday, March 28, at the Barnegat branch of the…
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News••March 6, 2019
Stafford EMS Adds New Members To Its Ranks
Stafford Township EMS, Squad 38, welcomed 15 new members to its ranks during its new member orientation class in February.
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Arts & Entertainment••March 6, 2019
March 9 Science Saturday Investigates Pine Wilt Disease
Richard Buckley from the Plant Diagnostic Laboratory of Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, and a member of the LBI Garden Club, will discuss pine wilt disease at the March 9 Science…
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News••March 6, 2019
Proceeds from Photo Exhibit to Be Donated to Conserve Wildlife Foundation
Ten percent of artwork sales at acurrent wildlife photography exhibition – featuring local photographers – at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciencesin Loveladies will be donated to…
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News••March 6, 2019
NRC: No Significant Safety Issues at Shuttered Oyster Creek Nuke
Although the Nuclear Regulatory Commission found no significant safety issues at the Oyster Creek Generating Station during its first inspection as a decommissioning power reactor, its staff found a…
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News••March 6, 2019
DEP Seeks Applicants for Summer Jobs at State Parks, Forests and Historic Sites
Summer is not far off, and as such, applications are being accepted now for hundreds of seasonal jobs at New Jersey’s parks, forests and historic sites, the state Department of Environmental…
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News••March 6, 2019
Public Comment Deadline April 1 for Interim Report on Back Bays Study
Storm-surge barriers, levees, marsh restoration and living shorelines are among the solution possibilities discussed in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ interim report on flood mitigation strategy…
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Columns••March 6, 2019
The Plastic Bag ‘Nightmare,’ a Return to North Swells, $50 Till 50 and the Holgate Assessment
Quite a week we had in America. I just want to start out by saying that I am not related to Michael Cohen. He is of the “H” Cohens. I am not.
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Sports••March 6, 2019
Southern’s Nick O’Connell Ends Wrestling Career as State Runner-up
Sometimes, dreams come true. Other times, they come partly true.
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Sports••March 6, 2019
Southern’s Stout, Pepe Just Miss Podium at State Wrestling Championships
Every year for the past few decades, hundreds of wrestlers enter Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall for the NJSIAA State Championships with their sights set on the medals podium. Of course, those…
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Sports••March 6, 2019
Pinelands Regional Boys Basketball Teams Bounced in Sectional Quarterfinals
High school basketball careers end every year about this time. For the seven seniors on the Pinelands Regional boys hoops team, that final moment occurred a little sooner than they had hoped.
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News••March 6, 2019
Stafford School Board Opts to Go Back to Tuition-Based Preschool for 2019-20
During its Feb. 21 meeting, the Stafford Township Board of Education was met with concern and opposition regarding its plan to withdraw from the New Jersey Department of Education’s Preschool…
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Columns••March 6, 2019
The Fate of the Elmina
Some shipwrecks are simple tragedies affecting only the lives of those involved; others, like the Titanic, lead to sweeping government actions to improve safety. LBI has had two wrecks that led to…
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Arts & Entertainment••March 6, 2019
Learn About Plover Preservation Project at LBI’s North End
Get the answers to any questions on the just-completed sand excavation project for piping plover preservation at a talk at the Barnegat Lighthouse State ParkVisitors Center on Saturday, March 23. The…
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Arts & Entertainment••March 6, 2019
See What’s New at LBIF Summer Camp 2019
Registration for Summer Camp 2019 at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences in Loveladies opened March 4. Camp programs run Monday through Friday, beginning June 24 and ending Aug.…
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News••March 6, 2019
Multi-Generational Car Accident at Nautilus Drive in Manahawkin
On Saturday, March 2, around 8 p.m. at the intersection of Route 72 and Nautilus Drive in Manahawkin, two Kias collided, one driven by a 75-year-old, the other with a 19-year-old behind the wheel.
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News••March 6, 2019
Russo’s Italian Restaurant Expects May Opening in Ship Bottom
Russo’s Italian Restaurant is expected to launch in mid-May on the corner of 14th Street and the Boulevard in Ship Bottom.
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News••March 6, 2019
Safely Dispose of Household Hazardous Waste
Ocean County kicks off its annual Household Hazardous Waste Disposal Program at the end of this month, with three dates announced, in Stafford, Lakewood and Toms River townships. The 2019 spring…
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News••March 6, 2019
Author and Publisher Marilyn Schmidt Dies Close to 90th Birthday
Marilyn Schmidt, publisher and owner of Buzby’s General Store, died on Tuesday just shy of her 90th birthday. Despite failing health, she still lived above the General Store until she was…
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News••March 6, 2019
Pinelands Regional Schools Superintendent to Meet With Special Education Parents
Pinelands Regional School District Superintendent of Schools Melissa McCooley will be meeting with parents of special education students at 5:30 p.m. this Thursday, March 7, in the junior high school…
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News••March 6, 2019
Girl Scouts Promote Understanding Between Countries
Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shoremembers in Tuckerton, Little Egg Harbor, Eagleswood and Bass River celebrated the worldwide sisterhood of scouting at their International Night on Friday, March 1.
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News••March 6, 2019
Work Begins on ‘Park ‘n Ride’ Lot in Little Egg Harbor
Mathis Construction has started a park and ride commuter parking lot on the corner of Poor Man’s Parkway and Route 539 near Garden State Parkway Interchange 58. The project has been considered for 10…
