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•April 25, 2013
The Beach House Restaurant Reopens; Fresh Produce Clothing Store Coming to Sink ‘R Swim
The Beach House Restaurant in Beach Haven Terrace is opening forits 16th season on Friday, April 26. Owners TerryandDebbie McGlynn along withsonsCorey andConnorhave been busy overthe winter…
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•April 4, 2013
Freedoms Don’t Cut It for Those in NJ
AFLUSH IN LAWS: In recent months, I’ve weathered some pretty s****y legal screwings. Admittedly, they weren’t biggies by any stretch, but they’ve surely shaken my sense of personal freedom to the…
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•March 28, 2013
Don’t Be Caught Knitting and Fishing, Dude
This might fall under a category titled, “I bring it all on myself.”
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•March 28, 2013
Boat Shop Open House to Double as ALO Benefit; Painter of Iconic Long Beach Island Signs Dies
This year on its 45th anniversary, the Annual Open House at The Boat Shop of Manahawkin will double as a fundraiser for Alliance for a Living Ocean.
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•March 21, 2013
Rocky Not to Blame for Transplant Rabies; It’s a Clear-cut Case of Glass Eel Poaching
The following is anything but an amusing story. It’s just so frickin’ freaky that outdoorists like myself have to say, “WTF?! And I’ll also be passing on any and all future organ transplants.”
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•March 20, 2013
Snow Tubing: Getting Barreled While It’s Snowing Might Be the Coolest Part of Winter
I’ve got a new favorite phrase this winter and that would be “snow tubing.” Traditionally, snow tubing is something that people who don’t ski or snowboard do at a snow resort, usually reserved for…
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•March 14, 2013
That Hair Is Here for Protection; Storm Saturn Was a Superfreak
All ye bearded anglers, take note: A study has found that facial hair is a sun fighter of the highest order. My beard applauds this finding – an odd sound if ever.
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•March 7, 2013
Sometimes You Just Gotta Talk Storm; Finds Are Never Keepers, Per the Law
Let’s talk storms this week. Please. I promise to make it interesting. Besides, sky convulsions continue to be the big headliners, as we get cluster stormed upon. (See below)
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•March 6, 2013
Sandy – A Reckoning
The Beachcomber presents a news chronicle of the Superstorm Sandy disaster on Long Beach Island, beginning October 29, 2012 and through the seven months of recovery before Summer 2013.
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•February 28, 2013
Full Moonings By Any Other Name; Ruined Reels Need Insurance Hand
This week we’re lookin’ up at something called a Full Hunger Moon – I point out, while heading into the Chinese buffet. Last month, we witnessed an impressive Full Wolf Moon.
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•February 21, 2013
That Close to a Crawlspace Dive; Desperately Seeking Shot of Sandy
This Monday past, I came that close to experiencing the dreaded pipe ice over.
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•February 14, 2013
Putrid Smell of Beachcombing Riches; Kiddie Rocket Takes Wild Ride to LBI
Being a treasure hunter of the highest order, I was among the very first to receive word – via treasure-y chatrooms – of UK’er Ken Wilman’s finding of an odd-looking, smelly chunk of amber-colored…
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•February 6, 2013
Winter’s One-Day Wonders, and Friends Remember a Local Surfer
I’ll just come out and say it: I don’t watch the Super Bowl.
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•January 31, 2013
Finding Flu Sympathy; Great Shark Tracking Curiosity
I was typing away at my desk a couple days back and had this sense that something was nearby, sorta homing in on me. I looked around the office but only saw a lone silverfish making a harried run for…
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•January 24, 2013
What’s Below Can Sink You; Bullets Fly in Appreciation
Damn. Cold can be so damn, well, cold. Who’da thunk it?
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•December 19, 2012
How Much Did You Learn?
As has been my tradition for longer than I care to remember, the final issue for The SandPaper in December, before it takes its winter hiatus, has been the time to review the past year with a test on…
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•December 5, 2012
Holding Up Glaciers for Fun and Profit; Why Super Sandy Pinged and Ponged
MONEY WITHIN THE WARMING MADNESS: The Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore continues to all but hand rally the ranks of Doomsday Preppers by hyping Super Sandy as a storm of things to come – a glum…
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•November 28, 2012
It’s High Tide to Meet Your Neighbors; Fish Oil Used to Quiet Livestock Belches
To tweak a line from the Grateful Dead: What a long, strange storm it’s been.
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•November 22, 2012
Healing the Wounds of War
March 1862, the Battle of New Bern was over and the men of the 9th New Jersey Volunteers, which included almost all of Ocean County sons, had done themselves proud. Col. Charles A. Heckman, a former…
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•November 21, 2012
I’m Still Waiting on Newness; A Sandy By Any Other Name
The Island is on a slow crawl to reach just the outer edge of normalcy. However, angling has staged a decent return, often being done by folks slapped silly by Sandy. There’s something truly…
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•November 15, 2012
Bravo for the Jersey Blues!
The events of March 14, 1862, at New Bern, N.C., would make General Ambrose Burnside a national hero and help propel him to a disastrous tenure as the head of the Army of the Potomac. They would also…
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•November 14, 2012
Peeling Away the Effects of Sandy; Boats Get Royalty Rocked & Rolled
As far as realm rockers go, Sandy was a Richter scale buster for LBI.
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•November 13, 2012
What We Learned From Superstorm Sandy
How cool was it that The SandPaper got out a special edition issue remotely just a few days after the storm? Hold on to yours. That thing’s gonna be a collector’s piece someday because -if this has…
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•November 8, 2012
Antiques
I’ve just experienced a wonderful and exasperating situation – both at the same time and as a result of a single circumstance. My last column had a very positive and a negative impact at the same…
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•November 4, 2012
Day 7: Ghost of the Shack Says It All
The Shack is gone but its ghost – and pilings – linger.
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•October 25, 2012
A Hellhole Grows in Holgate; The Tale Behind a 48-Pounder
A HOLE GROWS IN HOLGATE: And a huge bugger of a hole it was – and cosmically sudden. I, for one, had never seen the likes and was tickled pink – whatever the hell that means nowadays. (Wink/wink…
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•October 18, 2012
Asian Carp Reduced to Pellet Size; Look, a Mola-Mola in the Backyard
A very specialized fish-processing factory is about to fire up in Grafton, Illinois. It might fall into the hitherto unknown category, “If you can’t eat ’em, join ’em.”
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•October 11, 2012
Jersey Men Face Hazards of Hatteras
Today to the people of Ocean County, the Outer Banks of North Carolina mean a vacation destination of golf courses and sandy beaches. But 150 years ago, they looked at it as the place where their…
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•October 1, 2012
Jersey Shore Troops Vital to Coastal Defense Plan
The events that would lead the men of Ocean County to play a major role in the Union Army’s first decisive victory in the East began in Washington, D.C., in 1861. When the South fired on Fort Sumter…
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•September 27, 2012
N.J., Ocean County Answer the Call
One hundred fifty years ago, the United States was in the midst of the great Civil War. Unlike the Revolution or the War of 1812, there would be no blood spilled on Ocean County soil or in its…
