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•October 10, 2020
Weirdness 2020 Has Pompano, Pelicans Aplenty; No Country for Expired Flares
ONGOING WEIRDNESS 2020: Hookingly bizarre was Joe Handley’s huge pompano taken in Holgate on a tiny kingfish hook. They don’t belong here, at least not at the size this one arrived at: 3.24 pounds…
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•October 8, 2020
Long Beach Island Surf Fishing Classic Returns for 66th Season
Beginning this Saturday, Oct. 10, the 66th annual Long Beach Island Surf Fishing Classic returns for nine weeks of action.
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•October 8, 2020
Fully Functioning Traffic Signals Aid Annual LBI Kite Festival Accessibility
There are a few changes to this year’s LBI FLY International Kite Festival, perhaps none more surprising than fully functioning traffic lights in Ship Bottom and Long Beach Township.
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•October 8, 2020
Cluck’n Crabs Is Chowderfest 2020 Grand Champion
When all was sipped, said and done, John Costa was “a little shell-shocked” at being able to yell to his Cluck’n Crabs crew, “We won Chowderfest!”
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•October 8, 2020
Xiques’ Four Touchdown Passes Propel Barnegat Victory Over Pinelands
After transferring to Barnegat prior to last season, Matt Xiques was pegged as a possible starting quarterback for the football squad at some point. During the Bengals’ opener on Oct. 2, the senior…
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•October 8, 2020
Coast to Coast: Destinee Monroe Makes Waves
There is a new starlet making her way onto the scene in South Jersey, and on Saturday evening she serenaded the outdoor patio at Mystic Islands Casino in Little Egg Harbor. Her name is Destinee Raé…
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•October 8, 2020
Saying Goodbye to Surfer Mag; Fall Swells, October Love
Last week Liquid Lines was all about good news. This week, someone dropped a burning bag on the front porch, and we have to decide whether to step on it, knowing what kind of gross stuff might be…
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•October 8, 2020
Pulaski Monument Ceremony Oct. 11
The Affair at Egg Harbor Historical Society will host a public ceremony on Sunday, Oct. 11, at 2 p.m. at the Pulaski Monument in Little Egg Harbor honoring Count Casimir Pulaski’s troops who were…
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•October 8, 2020
Southern Boys Soccer Team Erases Last Season’s Pain with Comeback Wins Over Jackson Memorial
Several weeks ago, as the Southern Regional boys soccer team wrapped up one of its practices, senior Nico Leonard had quite a bit to say about the Rams opening up with Shore Conference Class A South…
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•October 3, 2020
Scientists Enhance Grassland, Pine Savanna, Broom Crowberry at Stafford Forge
The state Department of Environmental Protection Division of Fish and Wildlife has two projects currently underway in the 12,600-acre Stafford Forge Wildlife Management Area in West Creek to create…
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•October 2, 2020
New Jersey’s Lighthouse Challenge Going Hybrid
2020 has been the year of the hybrid, and we’re not talking about cars with both a gasoline engine and an electric motor, or designer dogs such as a Labradoodle.
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•October 1, 2020
Hotel LBI Liquor License Renewed With Restrictions
For only the second time in nearly three decades, Ship Bottom Mayor William Huelsenbeck cast a vote to break a stalemate at a borough council meeting. His deciding vote Sept. 22 granted approval of…
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•October 1, 2020
Ocean County Announces Vote-By-Mail Drop-Off Locations
If you’re a voter who doesn’t trust the beleaguered U.S. Postal Service to deliver your vote-by-mail ballot or don’t want to visit a polling place on Nov. 3 because of COVID-19 fears, fear not, you…
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•October 1, 2020
Ocean County COVID-19 Numbers Spike, But No Active Cases Among Islanders
Although Ocean County is seeing an upsurge in numbers of COVID-19 cases, there were no new coronavirus cases among Long Beach Island residents as of the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 29, according to the…
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•October 1, 2020
Epic Hurricane Teddy Swell and New Bag Ban Uplift for the Week
Hey, there’s good news to report! Bear in mind that good news in 2020 is fairly relative.
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•October 1, 2020
Car Theft Ring Eyed in Two Police Pursuits on LBI
Four cars stolen from Surf City residences in a seven-day period earlier this month were all recovered in North Jersey, law enforcement officials said. Police believe the thefts are part of a larger…
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•October 1, 2020
‘Virtual’ Long Beach Island 18 Mile Run Kicks Off This Week
Get ready to “compete” in this year’s Long Beach Island Commemorative 18 Mile Run.
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•October 1, 2020
Whitcraft Is Just Tickled Pink After Fundraiser
Deborah C. Whitcraft and her husband, Jim Vogel, will be drawing their shares of stares and double takes this week. That’s easy to do when you sport a pink hairdo courtesy of the Lavish salon in…
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•October 1, 2020
Pinelands School Board Keeps Drug Test Policy
The Pinelands Regional Board of Education nixed an administration proposal to end the district’s random drug testing policy at its Sept. 23 meeting.
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•October 1, 2020
Lack of Substitutes Causes Staff Shortage at Tuckerton Elementary
Tuckerton Elementary’s hybrid program, in which students can either attend school two days a week in socially distanced and COVID-19-safe classrooms plus do virtual learning or stay out of school and…
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•September 28, 2020
Tuckerton Mystery Lady: Ghost in the Window
This is a rather mild ghost story – no screeching or howling at night, no rattling of chains or teacups – but the new owner of 162 East Main St. in Tuckerton, Elliot Garcia, thinks he may have…
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•September 27, 2020
Ethel A. Jacobsen Garden Gets Blue Ribbon Recognition
More than 500 contestants from throughout New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware submitted their gardens to the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society as part of the group’s 2020 online competition. Of…
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•September 24, 2020
Workers Medevaced After House Collapse in Brant Beach
Two men were airlifted from the Ethel A. Jacobsen Elementary School field in Ship Bottom the morning of Sept. 24 after the top floor and deck collapsed on the Brant Beach home where they were…
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•September 24, 2020
Judge’s Ruling on Use Variance Approval for Former CVS Site Expected This Year
A decision on whether the Ship Bottom Land Use Review Board should have granted a use variance for the shuttered CVS Pharmacy in April 2019, when the application for a family-style entertainment…
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•September 24, 2020
Volunteers Give Mordecai Island a Sprucing Up
On Sept. 13, the Mordecai Land Trust in Beach Haven held a cleanup on Mordecai Island with a team of 33 volunteers of all ages, including five volunteers from ReClam the Bay and five boat captains.
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•September 24, 2020
Time to Go Archaic With Hurricane Names; Mullet on Long Trip Home
It’s now Greek to everyone, speaking of the beyond-bizarre alphabetic twist 2020 has applied to even the Atlantic hurricane season. Never have there been so many named tropical cyclones arising so…
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•September 24, 2020
NJ Forest Fire Service Busier This Year With Western Wildfires
A series of ominously hazy sunsets last week gave New Jersey residents another indication of how dire the West Coast wildfires are. For six weeks and counting, members of the New Jersey Forest Fire…
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•September 24, 2020
Lure of the Tropics, Weeks of Waves and Other Ramblings
By the time The SandPaper hits the big yellow boxes, we’re going to know if it’s boom or bust. But as I’m writing this, I don’t. And it’s either been a boom of historic surf proportions or a bust…
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•September 24, 2020
Call to Action: Barnegat Light First Aid Squad Seeks Volunteers
COVID-19 has forced a combination of pressures further into a sensitive balance of dependence on active volunteers in the Barnegat Light First Aid Squad. After managing a suddenly hectic spring and…
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•September 24, 2020
Barnegat Police Get ‘Thank-You’ Gift Bags
Members of the Barnegat Police Department got quite a surprise Sept. 21 in the form of “thank-you” gift bags from residents of the Horizons at Barnegat community.
