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•July 19, 2024
Mid-July and We’re Still Talkin’ Cold Water
Over the past few years, pelicans, once a rare sight in New Jersey, have become ubiquitous. And I suspect that has something to do with the ocean temp.
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•July 17, 2024
Maggot Weather Days Offered Us Kids Best of Times; Turbine Builds Use Worst Greenhouse Gas
“What the hell is up with these cold ocean temps!?” I hear many folks semi-angrily asking.
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•July 17, 2024
Who’s Telling the Truth?
On the night of Oct. 30, 1890, two ships collided just east of Barnegat Lighthouse. The four-masted schooner Cornelius Hargraves, loaded with coal, had left Philadelphia when it rammed the…
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•July 15, 2024
Sand for Thinning Island Beaches Pumped Forth Before Winter?; ‘Dry’ Lightning Bolt Like a Bull Whip
For Island beachgoers who are finding their favorite beaches narrowing through erosion, a sand assist is now on the way.
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•July 14, 2024
So Many Community Events, Such Short Time; Water Temp Swings, Dates to Plan
“How many steps are you going to take?! That’s a travel!”
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•July 10, 2024
Desperate Struggle for Survival
On the night of Oct. 30, 1890, two vessels collided within sight of Barnegat Lighthouse. The first group of survivors was rescued the next morning from one of the ship’s rigging, as both sank in only…
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•July 4, 2024
LBI Dupe, Plus More Cold Water and a Lot of Science
This past week, LBI’s online community, which consists of several entities, had quite the discussion about an article from the Travel + Leisure magazine’s website.
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•July 4, 2024
Disastrous Collision Off Barnegat Light
When you think of shipwrecks off the Jersey coast, you almost always picture a lone vessel battling the seas on a dark and stormy night. But one of the most controversial ones occurred in 1890, and…
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•July 3, 2024
Indie Band Innlet Making Waves on Social Media for All the Right Reasons
An indie band right out of our local Southern Regional High School has taken social media and streaming services by storm with single after single, and they’re just getting started.
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•July 3, 2024
A Stunt on the Outgoing Causeway Marks a High in Summer Stupidity; Death of Chevron Adds Life to the Judicial System
Summer seems to foster stupid stunts of the highest order. However, it will be hard to out-stupid a stunt performed by an unknown number of actors last Thursday, right before midnight, on the…
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•June 27, 2024
Cold Water Last Week? Let’s Blame Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis. Boy were we ever cursing his name last week!
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•June 27, 2024
New Scoop on Hurricanes Doesn’t Match Narratives; We Remain Among the Farmingest States
Long Beach Island’s greatest claim to summer fame, even beyond beaching, fishing, surfing, boating, crabbing, ice creaming, mini-golfing, coffee shop hopping, turbine hating and woozily high weekly…
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•June 26, 2024
Hope for Lighthouse Appears Lost
In the long history of Barnegat Lighthouse, the year 1924 has to mark one of its low points.
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•June 20, 2024
Things Revealed in June; Tropic Thunder Starting to Rumble
It’s also Pride Month and the month we celebrate the nationally recognized holiday Juneteenth. All that makes June tough on certain straight, white people in a beach resort area who face such…
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•June 19, 2024
Never-Ending ‘Jaws’ Saga Given a New Scientific What-If; Dogfish Overrunning Angling Scene
Donald Trump was recently heard speaking some serious bull. But it’s not what you think. He was referencing the horrific bull shark attacks in Florida. His unwieldy comments, described by one…
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•June 19, 2024
Dead Fish and a Movie Kill Reactors
This series began trying to answer the question of why today there are no floating nuclear reactors off Long Beach Island and no giant cooling tower in Forked River. Throughout the early 1970s, fish…
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•June 14, 2024
Perfect Summer Adventure Sandwich: Little Clean Waves and Hop Sauce Weekend
What I’m talking about in the headline is a sandwich idea for your summer, something we’ve been making to take on hikes, beach days and boat adventures for a few summers now – the peanut butter and…
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•June 12, 2024
What Heavy-Lift Turbine Vessels Come Our Way? Dead Bass Numbers Are Unacceptable
How about that ocean? Quite a thing of beauty of late. Beachgoers are remarking that the color and clarity has an almost tropical look. That tourist-pleasing look seems entrenched, as we quickly move…
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•June 12, 2024
Atlantic County Voters Say No
The battle over whether Southern Ocean County would become a center for the nation’s nuclear power industry and a test site for the new technology of floating power plants took a turn during the…
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•June 7, 2024
Big Jump in Water Temps With Surf on the Way
On Sunday morning, the surf temp hit 61 and even crept upward a few degrees during the day. This marks a very important milestone in the water temperature rise for the year.
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•June 7, 2024
Unions, Birders and Politics Get Involved
The events of 1974 in many ways explain why today Ocean County is not a center for the nation’s nuclear power industry.
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•June 5, 2024
Unseeable Drivers’ Day in the Sun; Shocking ‘Unknowns’ Within Final Statement on Turbines
I’m in the dark about window tinting on vehicles in N.J. Quite obviously, the number of fully “blacked out” vehicles has skyrocketed.
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•May 30, 2024
Skinny Beaches Have Towns Light on Sand; NOAA Foresees All-Time Hurricane Season
It was a minorly memorable Memorial Day weekend, if only based on overall attendance. The people count was remarkable, complemented by decentish weather for two out of three vacation days, providing…
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•May 30, 2024
Will Department of Justice Stem Ticketmaster Disaster This Summer? Surf Makes a Poor Showing to Start Season
I heard of no fatalities on the Island this weekend. No one lost a hand to fireworks and none of the motorized scooters that zipped into traffic got hit. And that’s a relief. From the nonstop sirens…
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•May 29, 2024
EPA Questions Oyster Creek Approval
At the time few people realized that a fish kill in August 1973 at the Oyster Creek nuclear reactor on Route 9 in Lacey Township would trigger a series of events that would affect the nation’s energy…
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•May 25, 2024
MDW Is Here at Long Last, and Are We Ever Ready for Summer
It’s safe to say we’re ready for summer. I, for one, am ready for a Pamwich from Barry’s, sunglasses and the squeak of an old beach cruiser that has gotten rained on 28 days in the past month. I’m…
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•May 22, 2024
Seeking the Gentle Glow of Nighttime Mushrooms, A Screening Out of an Entire Mountain
The Memorial Day weekend is upon us. I’ve long seen it as the false start of summer. The Island engorges like a starving tick, then, just like that, it falls off until true summer begins on July 4.
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•May 22, 2024
Playlist Locked, Loaded; Now Streaming Summer
It’s been a slow and gloomy spring, but summer is just within reach. That means it’s time to refresh listening playlists for summertime hangs, tailgates and road trips.
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•May 16, 2024
Surf and Weather Have Been Depressing But Better Days Ahead
As we’ve muddled through May with the fireplace on, trying to keep Mom warm on Sunday and get our punch list done in the wind and rain before the unofficial start of summer, there’s been some news…
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•May 15, 2024
Many Tick Types Traipse Around Jersey – a Human’s Worst Nightmare; Trump Promises Quick End to Offshore Wind Turbines
I’ll commence by begging to differ, referencing a worldwide Gallup Poll that collected information on the general feeling of well-being within 168 countries based on Internetness.
