Columns
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•October 18, 2016
Iraq Flight to See Sumerian Angels; Naked Truth About Extreme Birdwatchers
ALIEN ASTRONAUTS AND ANGELS: Oh, do I have a world-class freak-thing to pass on this week. To stay in theme, it remotely has to do with Iraq encouraging anglers to fish there. Yes, that’s a…
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•October 12, 2016
Racism an Election Issue 100 Years Ago
As Woodrow Wilson prepared to launch his 1916 reelection campaign from the Shadow Lawn estate on the Jersey Shore, he planned to ask the American public to trust him as he ran on the campaign promise…
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•September 28, 2016
Trying to Answer Questions on the Beachfill Saga, and Can We Buy an Offshore Wind?
I’ve come to the conclusion that the best way to take stock of your friends is to have car problems.
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•September 27, 2016
Taking Kidney Stones for Great Adventure Ride; Awaiting Permit Delivery for Roadkill Deer
STONED ON A ROLLER COASTER: When’s the last time I wrote about kidneys in here? I’ll tell ya when: never, that’s when. Yet those essential dual organs, empowered to maintain bodily pH, are within…
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•September 13, 2016
Speed-eaters Go Green Hot Dog! ‘Hey Mister, Why Does Sand Scream?’
Years back, I interviewed an American champion speed-eater, competing in a world-class contest in Atlantic City. He wasn’t a big guy at all, medium-weight at most. And he talked real slow, which I…
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•September 7, 2016
Hermine Was Low on Impact and High on Oddness; Smallest of the Small Shall Save a Plasticized World
It’s life after Hermine … and I feel REM-ishly fine.
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•September 7, 2016
New Yorkers Try to Flee Polio
Today as stories of the spread of disease and attempts to stop it are filling the media, a look at the 1916 polio epidemic might give us some insight as to how government and people react to an…
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•September 3, 2016
Hermine Gets Complicated
Noon, Saturday, Sept. 3: As 75 percent of folks are rallying to leave LBI before Hermine arrives, the remainder are walkin’ about or nonchalantly waiting in line outside restaurants to leisurely dine.
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•August 31, 2016
Long Beach Township Just Opened All Beaches to Surfing, But Where Are Township’s Surf Breaks?
I will admit that there are times I sit down to write this column and I have no idea what to write. Granted, when we have a firing swell or back-to-back summer happenings, it’s a no-brainer. But…
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•August 23, 2016
Sound Way to Shoo Sharks; When Mesoglea Fly, Time to Duck
SHARK STOPPAGE: The SharkStopper folks up in Huntington, N.Y. got in touch with me to tritely say, “It’s safe to go into the water.”
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•August 17, 2016
While Greenhead ‘Black Boxes’ Come Under Eco-Fire, They Have No Problem Keeping the Generations Coming
Not long ago, I got word that LBI’s fairly-famed greenhead-trapping “black boxes” were under eco-attack. Scuttlebutt had some unknown insect-hugging sector of society talking smack about the…
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•August 9, 2016
Puffer Poisons Overrated; Time to Return Cougars to Our Outback?
TOXIC MISREAD OF SMOOTH BLOWFISH: I need to begin with a now much-traveled photo passed on by reader J. Terhoon, bearing the message, “Smooth Puffer fish caught in Barnegat Bay. Sushi anyone?”
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•June 28, 2016
Zika Should Have You Crawling With Suspicion
How can an outdoors column like mine not touch on the subject of Zika – and then, after touching it, refrain from unprotected human contact for at least eight contagious weeks? Hey, that’s how long…
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•June 16, 2016
Nutrient Deficiency Addressed By Therapist
Editor’s Note: Karen Cooney is a nutrition therapist and psychological counselor with a practice in The Commons at Royce Run, Manahawkin. She is a board-certified health practitioner and a member of…
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•June 7, 2016
‘Smileless’ Rules State Roadways; Pine Barrens Tree Frogs Thank Byrne
Well, I’m an American again … but just barely. It was that close.
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•June 2, 2016
Now That the Weekend Is Over; It Was UN Fishing on the South Jetty
WHAT NOW?: I always call Memorial Day weekend the annual false start of summer. For a couple/few days we’re chest-deep in the summer look and feel, people-wise. Then it’s back to a silent spring…
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•May 24, 2016
Time to Fish With Six-Pack Rings; Crocs Gatoring to Florida
There’s an old saying that goes, “When you’re caught between a rock and a hard spot … make lemonade.” OK, so starting now, there’s now that saying.
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•May 19, 2016
Harvey Cedars Business Community Launches Group
Weather plays a powerful role in whether the cash ebbs or flows in a summer resort, remarked members of the new Harvey Cedars Business Community. But active promotion as a group is smart business…
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•May 17, 2016
Golfer’s Fishy Excuse for Close Shave; Dredging Hope for Holgate Sand
I’m the type of overactive soul that has to occasionally lie back and calm the hell down, lest I explode in a display of psychically unsound colors. I’m not sure what that means but I hate when it…
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•May 5, 2016
‘Good’ Herpes Sent to Kill Invading Carp; Falling for Pareidolia Plugs
CARP FIGHT TURNS VIRAL: Herpes is the kiss of death for carp. Unlike humans, who haul herpes around like a bad tattoo, carp quickly go belly up when infected … purposely. This is gonna take some…
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•April 28, 2016
When Ocean Drops 180 Feet, Think Tsunami; Double Creek Won’t Get Deeper Until Fall
It’s a perfect time to talk tsunamis since we somehow sidestepped your everyday 180-footer over the weekend. You’ve surely gotten word of the bizarre depth-change alert issued by a far-at-sea buoy…
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•April 14, 2016
Setting Financial Expectations With Family and Friends
As the weather heats up, so does the planning for vacations, graduations, weddings and family reunions. Your packed event schedule could impact your financial health, so it’s important to set…
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•April 14, 2016
There Are Eco-trucks in the Gaseous Future; Signs That Trespassing Has Its Proper Limits
GETTING GOUGED … AGAIN: Oil cartels are aggravatingly sighing in relief as the price of oil is edging back up – to where they’re again making billions a day and not measly millions.
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•April 7, 2016
Just Glue Your Fish Pieces Into a Fillet; Making Room for More North-End Plover
How do you make three small, unrelated chunks of fish into one hunka-chunka burnin’ filet? Just glue them suckers together. I kid you not.
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•March 29, 2016
Beached Sperm Whales Went Too Far for Squid; Google Glass Offers One-eyed Look Into Future
WHALE DIE-OFF FROM JONAS?: In January and February, 13 doomed whales surfaced near the North Sea coastal resort of Tönning, Germany. All eventually stranded themselves and died from asphyxiation due…
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•March 22, 2016
Awaiting Amber to Light on Our Beach; Marine Sanctuaries, Give Me None!
COLOR ME AMBER-GOLD: Boy, did I strike a treasure nerve among many folks last week. I wrote about the treasure potential within replenishment sands from Little Egg Inlet dredging.
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•March 15, 2016
Get Bitten By All the Snakes You Want; Treasure Can Fall From Sky And Smash Your Hip
Here’s a story about the subtle difference between being a wrong rat and a right rat.
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•March 10, 2016
Old News Is New Again on Beach Project; LBI Is Treasure Island – More to Come Via Replenishment
REPLENISHMENT UPDATE – OR NOT: Beach replenishment is still heap-high when it comes to questions lighting upon my editor’s desk. Even though an “update” meeting took place just this week between the…
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•March 8, 2016
Preserving Town Character and Pondering So Much Swell This Season
Given the current political circus big top, you may find it difficult to catch the stories that happen on the periphery, but there was some noise made lately about consolidating little New Jersey…
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•February 24, 2016
Replen Mulls Little Egg Inlet Sands; For Biker Leather, Turn to Kangaroos
Before we get to who-knows-what, I gotta bring in the latest replenishment news. The ongoing beach and dune upgrades might soon officially be intermingled with the long-running effort to dredge a…
