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•May 14, 2020
‘Jersey Shorecast’ Cites Need to Get Tourism Season on the Road
The outlook for the summer of 2020 at the Jersey Shore will depend on how quickly businesses can open, what guidelines and restrictions are in place when they do, and how well the hospitality and…
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•May 12, 2020
Beach Haven Beaches Now Open to All
People will no longer need emergency placards to access the beach in Beach Haven, according to an executive order announced by the mayor and council Friday.
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•May 11, 2020
LBI on Flight Path of Air Fighter Wing Flyover Tuesday
The New Jersey Air National Guard will conduct a state flyover to honor COVID-19 frontline workers on Tuesday, May 12 (weather date May 13).
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•May 9, 2020
Answering a Need, Former Surf City Nurse Signs Up for NYC COVID Duty
Nurses have been compared to firefighters; they rush into the conflagration. A talk with former Surf City resident and grandmother Lydia Oliver explains why a registered nurse originally from…
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•May 9, 2020
Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey Continues Spring Activities
In the midst of this pandemic, “wild” life goes on for Ben Wurst, local project manager for Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey. His office stretches to include the salt marsh, woods and…
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•May 7, 2020
Beer Naked Ladies: Three Sisters Strive to Open Brewery, Meet Township Resistance
Amid the bleakness of a pandemic-stricken Jersey Shore, which has closed down all nonessential gathering venues, three local sisters of the millennial generation look forward to the day when they can…
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•May 7, 2020
100th COVID-19 Patient Released From SOMC
In the late afternoon on Monday, May 4, Southern Ocean Medical Center staff gathered in the main lobby of the hospital for a milestone occasion: the discharge of the 100th COVID-19-positive patient.…
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•May 7, 2020
County Parks in Barnegat, Tuckerton Added to Open List
Ocean County reopened three more of its county parks on Thursday, May 7: Cloverdale County Park, Barnegat Township; Tip Seaman County Park, Tuckerton; and Cattus Island County Park, Toms River…
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•May 7, 2020
Beach Patrols Await Further Guidance So Swim Tests Can Occur
Beach patrols on Long Beach Island already have begun discussing varying plans to address potential social distancing measures and how lifeguards might perform rescues with masks on their faces. But…
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•May 7, 2020
Pets Are People, Too, at Least When It Comes to COVID-19
It is bad enough that you have to worry about your spouses, children, parents, grandparents, grandchildren and siblings during the COVID-19 crisis.
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•May 7, 2020
Three Island Towns Open Beaches to Everyone
Beaches are now open to everyone in Harvey Cedars, Long Beach Township and Ship Bottom, ending the temporary and controversial system of allowing only property owners and residents in those towns to…
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•May 7, 2020
Kim Named to Select House Committee to Oversee Federal COVID-19 Response
Congressman Andy Kim, the Democrat who represents New Jersey’s 3rd Congressional District, which includes 36 municipalities in Burlington County and 17 municipalities in Ocean County including half…
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•May 7, 2020
Remember Who Your Business Buddies Are; Beach Accident Ends Up a Miracle of Miracles
THE NEW ESSENTIAL: The entire COVID-19 essentiality-picking process put extraordinarily little emphasis on the also-ran: the nonessential. As tens of millions know, the nonessential boot to the ass…
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•May 7, 2020
Local Inventor Has a New Twist on Sanitizers
More than 10 years ago, Barnegat Township resident Will Jimroglou developed a patented Twist N Fill Dispensing unit. It was a one-gallon dispenser intended for parents to use for their children. They…
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•May 4, 2020
DOT Eyes Memorial Day Weekend to Wrap Up Parker Island Project
Dredging work in the area of Parker Island off Beach Haven is expected to be completed by Memorial Day weekend, according to the N.J. Department of Transportation, the agency in charge of the project.
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•May 2, 2020
Two Teens Struck by Lifeguard Truck on Beach
Two teenage girls were airlifted, in separate helicopters, from the field at the Ethel A. Jacobsen Elementary School after being struck by a beach patrol vehicle on the 26th Street beach in Ship…
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•May 2, 2020
Artists Make Glass Image of Mythic Creature to Aid Healing
Call it pandemic art, but the coronavirus has a couple of local glass artisans creating work that inspires hope in this time of crisis.
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•May 1, 2020
COVID-19 Impact on Ship Bottom Municipal Budget Unclear
A year ago at this time, Ship Bottom coffers included more than $70,000 in beach badge sales ahead of the summer season. That figure is down by $55,000 this year with the borough collecting $15,000…
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•April 30, 2020
Longing for the Day When We’re all 60-Percenters; Resurrecting Protest Times by Boycotting the Beach
PRESENTING AS PERCENTAGES: Are you a 60-percenter? No, that is not a gang member … or maybe it is. It’s the exposure percentage science now deems necessary to indicate ’rona is on the run, at least…
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•April 30, 2020
LBI Grade School Student Busy With Mask-Making Charity
Macy Deakyne, like all of the other children in New Jersey, has been out of school since the middle of March. The third-grader at the Long Beach Island Grade School doesn’t know if she and her…
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•April 30, 2020
Stafford Mayor Announces Availability of Food Crisis Kits for Residents in Need
Last week, Stafford Township Mayor Greg Myhre made a special trip to Neptune on behalf of the township recreation department.
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•April 30, 2020
Local Teen Performs Online for David’s Dream and Believe
Local up-and-coming pop star Owen DiNapoli just celebrated his 13th birthday in quarantine, but despite missing out on social interaction and live performances, the driven young artist has remained…
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•April 30, 2020
The Month Time Stood Still (Numbers to Prove It)
I want to start this week by stating that Ship Bottom has opened its beaches. Well, sort of …
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•April 30, 2020
Second Offshore Wind Farm Starts Surveys
A second offshore windfarm, Atlantic Shores, is starting to conduct marine surveys of its Outer Continental Shelf lease, 180,000 acres that stretches 9 to 20 miles off Atlantic City and Barnegat…
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•April 27, 2020
COVID Cases See a ‘Significant’ Decline at Southern Ocean Medical Center
The number of patients with the coronavirus currently at Southern Ocean Medical Center is less than half what it was at its peak, according to the Manahawkin hospital’s chief executive officer…
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•April 26, 2020
Offshore Wind Farm One Step Closer to Reality
Ørsted, the Danish company that is developing New Jersey’s first offshore wind farm, has completed another step toward realizing its plan to plant between 92 and 99 giant wind turbines 15 miles off…
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•April 25, 2020
Ship Bottom Beaches Reopen for Property Owners, Residents with Placards
Beginning at 6 p.m., April 24, Ship Bottom beaches are open to property owners and residents in possession of a disaster re-entry placard, officials announced late Friday afternoon. Surf fishing will…
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•April 24, 2020
Surflight Considering at Least Three Reopening Options for 2020 Season
Perhaps no industry in the U.S. other than cruise lines has been shut down as totally because of the COVID-19 crisis as live theater.
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•April 24, 2020
It’s Two Pandemics in One; Onward to a Soft Reopening
I’m here to encourage an enhanced sympathy for the suffering pandemic masses. Oddly, I am not referencing that awful COVID creature. I’m seeking sympathy for those showing symptoms of the rapidly…
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•April 23, 2020
Proposed Beach Haven Hotel Apparently Hits Roadblock
Developer Christopher Vernon’s plan to build a 102-room hotel on the vacant site of Morrison’s Restaurant in Beach Haven appears to be on shaky ground, according to borough officials.
