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•September 27, 2012
Auction Items Coming ‘Up From the Deep’; Gables to Host Wedding Open House
A huge onsite auction at Up From the Deep Shoppes will get underway at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 6 at 901 North Bay Ave. in Beach Haven. This will be one of the more unique auctions of the area, as the…
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•September 26, 2012
Huge Spiders Are Our Friends; Surf Users Need to Play Nice
As if this summer hasn’t already shown us some huge hatches of insects, good and bad, we’re seeing an amazing showing of orb-weaver spiders, along with the related garden spiders.
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•September 20, 2012
Hull’s Surrender Disgraces America
It wasn’t until Sept. 12, 1812, that most Americans learned of the disaster that had befallen the Army of the Northwest, commanded by 59-year-old William Hull, at Fort Detroit. The general had led a…
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•September 20, 2012
A Glacier Grows in Manhattan; The Fall Attack of Surfcasters
I don’t know if I suffer from Attention Deficit Disorder or luxuriate in it. There’s something oddly soothing about moving onto the next subject while the one I’m on is still in the midst of…
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•September 19, 2012
Tropical Frenzy Winds Down But Events and Windswells on the Horizon
I have to admit that some of us are really excited right now.
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•September 13, 2012
Which Side Is He On?
The War of 1812 opened on a high note for the United States. With cries of “On to Canada,” America’s war hawks dreamed of empire. Even Thomas Jefferson had boasted that taking the British colony…
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•September 13, 2012
Summer Was No Bummer
When I say “lighthouse,” do you think barometer? You could; the number of visitorsto Barnegat Lighthouse StatePark is an indicator of how many people were here on the Island this past summer. Ten…
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•September 10, 2012
Jersey Girls: ‘Authentic,’ Take It or Leave It
Defining the indefinable, Jersey Girls, the Fierce and the Fabulous (Running Press Book Publishers, 2011, $20) authors Marie Moss and Barri Leiner Grant set out to do just that: define a Jersey Girl.…
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•September 6, 2012
Getting Ready for the Hurricane Love Affair in September
And there it sits, a sexy siren over the warm ocean, with that perfect symmetry. She’s a good-looking girl – a healthy woman with a shapely figure. Her isobars are tightly packed and she has the…
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•September 6, 2012
She’s a Crazy-Fast Curlew; Shrimping-based Massacres
It’s time to ready for the next phase of Island driving: skillfully negotiating the roads amid school buses, and high schoolers toting newly acquired driving privileges.
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•September 4, 2012
Unfulfilled Wishes, Mid-Life Changes
From the first page, Denting the Bosch (St. Martin’s Press) by Teresa Link sucks you in as she describes a homesick New Yorker stuck in sunny California, hungering to experience a howling northeast…
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•August 30, 2012
1812: Terms of Invasion
Two hundred years ago this summer, the United States suffered the worst military humiliation in its history. The white flag of surrender would fly over an American city as politicians accused the…
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•August 30, 2012
A Sad Delay for Holgate Reopening; Sailing Off After a Bash-and-Run
It’s Labor Day and although labors never end here in the newspaper business, they do take on a slightly better attitude as the Island drains a bit.
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•August 30, 2012
#Hashtagging the Week Ahead for Visitors, Locals and Surfers
Don’t be surprised if Instagram crashes this week. Summer folks are making big plans.
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•August 30, 2012
Heritage Construction Plans New Headquarters in Ship Bottom; Sea Breeze Realty Opens Beach Haven Office
Heritage Construction Enterprises is building a new office and showroom in Ship Bottom to accommodate the company’s growth.
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•August 26, 2012
New Books on New Jersey
When I flipped through the pages of New Jersey for Kids, the first thing I saw was the photo at the beginning of the chapter “History Made Fun.” It was a picture of a bunch of children at the edge of…
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•August 23, 2012
A Hankerin’ for Holgate; Sharks Every Whichaway
No sooner do we put out one SandPaper than you folks expect another one. I should have gotten into a career of, say, statue building. “There. Done. Call me in a hundred years or so.”
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•August 23, 2012
Constitution Comes Out On Top
On Aug. 19, 1812, two ships in the waters of the North Atlantic were headed for a showdown. On board the HMS Guerriere, Capt. James A. Dacres tried to make out the identity of the mystery ship. He…
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•August 21, 2012
Life Under the Offshore Ocean
In his new book, Beneath the Garden State: Exploring Aquatic New Jersey, photographer Herb Segars takes us on a colorful journey that captures the marine life, artificial reefs and shipwrecks in the…
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•August 16, 2012
Hull Hurries to Face British
Following the USS Constitution‘s great escape from five British warships off the Jersey Shore in July 1812, her captain, Isaac Hull, had informed the secretary of the Navy on the 21st that he was…
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•August 16, 2012
Talking Summer Board Designs and Upcoming SEA NYC Paddle
The surfboard rack in a shop is like an enchanted forest. There’s something a little bit magical about all those new sticks lined up just waiting to be ridden, surrounded by images of perfect waves…
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•August 10, 2012
1992: Piney Music and Jazz; Boulevard Hazards; ‘18th Century Dunes
Twenty years ago The Beachcomber started off the season with a long story and lots of photos about Albert Hall in Waretown, and the fine Piney and folk musicians who played there. In July, the…
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•August 9, 2012
Mob Violence Turns Horrific
Although not as well-known as the storming of the Bastille in Paris, the attack on the Baltimore jail in July 1812 did have important consequences. Alexander Hanson, editor of the Federal Republican…
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•August 9, 2012
Shore Solutions Is ‘Your Concierge at the Beach’
When Shore Solutions provides the service, “your concierge at the beach,” the answered need can be as simple as a baby bed rental or as elaborate as a catered gourmet dinner.
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•August 9, 2012
Here a Rescue, There a Rescue; GinTack-Sharp Chinese Poachers
I want all y’all to stop what you’re doing and issue a big round of applause for the job our police departments, rescue squads, fire companies and first-responders are doing this summer.
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•August 3, 2012
1972: Frosty Ocean; Hospital Grand Opening
According to The Beachcomber of July 20, 1972, it was one of the coldest Julys on record. We reported, “Baffin Bay temperatures, loads of people on the beach but none braving the snow-white surf.…
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•August 2, 2012
Violence Against the Press
James Madison, Princeton class of 1771, is often called “the father of the Bill of Rights,” the keystone of which is today’s First Amendment, guaranteeing the freedom of speech, press and religion.…
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•August 2, 2012
Between the Sheets Recognized; Zumba ‘Exercise in Disguise’
A national purveyor of luxury linens is proud of its 15-year association with a local retailer and recentlywrote a letter saying so.
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•July 27, 2012
1972: Polarized on Politics, Land Use, Sharing the Road
Forty years ago, Long Beach Island was politically polarized, and that cultural divide was reflected in the pages of The Beachcomber. After one of our columnists wrote in support of George McGovern…
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•July 26, 2012
The Great Escape
July 17, 1812, had not dawned with promise for Capt. Isaac Hull and the frigate USS Constitution. Hull and the crew realized they were surrounded by a squadron of British warships, and there was no…
