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•September 25, 2025
Project Terrapin Aims to Reduce Road Mortality for Turtles
As the weather warms each year, female northern diamondback terrapins emerge from brackish saltwater marshes, coastal bays and lagoons to seek spots to lay their eggs. “The search for nesting habitat…
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•September 25, 2025
Youth Carvers Prepare for Decoy Show
Decoy carving is a time-honored tradition throughout the Barnegat Bay and Pine Barrens regions. Seasoned artists have spent decades perfecting their craft and preserving the history behind the art…
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•September 25, 2025
Get Carried Away: Explore LBIF’s 10th Annual Plein Air Plus Exhibition
Tour the LBI region’s familiar landscapes and landmarks, vistas and vignettes through the eyes of the nearly 50 artists whose work is hanging inside the main gallery at the Long Beach Island…
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•September 23, 2025
Commercial Portion of Former K2 Property Up for Sale
A new listing has hit the real estate market on Long Beach Island: the 17,600-square-foot commercial lot at 8200 Long Beach Blvd. in Brighton Beach, which was formerly the site of Kubel’s Too, and is…
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•September 22, 2025
A Glimpse Into the Crab Island Fish Factory’s Past
A few miles out in the Great Bay, a steel skeleton, swallowed by tall grasses and poison ivy, rises from an island. Though it is now little more than a reminder of a bygone era, the decaying…
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•September 20, 2025
Surf City Badge Sales Near $1 Million; Costs Rising Next Year
Despite a change in time to ensure a quorum, regular attendees of Surf City Borough Council meetings turned out for the Sept. 10 morning session but did not offer any comment during a public hearing…
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•September 18, 2025
Van Drew Pushes New Funding Source for Beach Replenishment
While it remains unclear whether Surf City will benefit from beach replenishment in the near future, Congressman Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J. 2nd Dist.) has a long-term plan to ensure permanent and reliable…
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•September 18, 2025
McKinley Students Remember Those Lost on 9/11
Stafford Township Police Lt. John Morrin recalls Sept. 11, 2001 well. He was in the U.S. Marine Corps at the time, with a unit in New Jersey.
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•September 18, 2025
Four Newcomers to Chowder Contest Will Face Off Against Seasoned Competitors
Of the 12 restaurants signed up for this year’s Chowder Cook-Off, Oct. 5, four are brand-new to the competition: Dolce Liberta and Element, both in Manahawkin, Isola Italian Trattoria in Beach Haven…
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•September 18, 2025
Best Season for Free Finds, Surf Stays Consistent and Tropics May Kick On
It was a precarious moment, as we were sitting at a light on Saturday morning. A car making a left turn southbound on the Boulevard caused a commotion when the coffee tumbler inadvertently left on…
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•September 18, 2025
Pinelands Overcomes Mishaps to Oust Barnegat
It never fails. Whenever the Pinelands Regional and Barnegat girls volleyball teams get together for their first clash of the season, things get a little wonky.
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•September 18, 2025
Add Surflight’s ‘Calendar Girls’ to Your Calendar
Surflight Theatre’s current show, “Calendar Girls,” must be described as sweet, which Merriam-Webster describes as “pleasing to the mind or feelings: agreeable, gratifying.”
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•September 18, 2025
Save Barnegat Bay, Residents Address Planned Little Egg Harbor Development
At the Sept. 11 regular meeting of the Little Egg Harbor Township Committee, much of the public comment portion was dedicated to an ongoing topic of discussion in the township – Lennar Corp.’s…
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•September 16, 2025
Enhance Your Backyard Experience, Enjoy the Views With a Smart Bird Feeder
Prior to Christmas two years ago, Joe Mangino already enjoyed bird watching and conservation, with multiple feeders in his backyard. He often peeked out the window or took a glance from his detached…
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•September 15, 2025
Migrating to the Deep South (Speaking of the Holgate End)
I’ve successfully made my fall migration to the south, having temporarily flown with the plovers, pelicans and monarch butterflies, at least as far as Holgate, where I broke away.
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•September 14, 2025
Long Beach Township Pays Tribute to Influential Islander on His 100th Birthday
The Long Beach Township Board of Commissioners meeting on Sept. 8 began on a celebratory note, as Mayor Joseph Mancini read a proclamation in honor of the 100th birthday – on Wednesday, Sept. 10 – of…
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•September 13, 2025
Ship Bottom Celebrates Family Fun at the Bay
Ship Bottom will continue to celebrate its centennial year at the annual Day at the Bay event Saturday, Sept. 13 at the boat ramp.
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•September 12, 2025
Friends Pull Together to Save Young Girl
A former Ship Bottom lifeguard and a critical care nurse were among a group of six friends having a nighttime picnic at the bay beach Friday when the sound of children playing nearby turned eerily…
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•September 11, 2025
LBI Music Legend Returning for Bay Village Reunion
As part of Bay Village’s 60th anniversary, the Beach Haven commercial landmark is hosting an employee reunion on Saturday, Sept. 13, beginning at 1 p.m. at the Capitano Italian Coastal Kitchen.
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•September 11, 2025
Southern Regional Defense Delivers Gem as Rams Improve to 2-0
Reality White transferred from Barnegat to Southern Regional shortly before the basketball season last year, so he didn’t play football for the Rams until two weeks ago. On Sept. 5, White didn’t just…
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•September 11, 2025
Friends Remember Ron Jon Founder, a Surf Industry Legend
Most of today’s shoppers at ‘The Original’ Ron Jon Surf Shop in Ship Bottom are too young to remember the enigmatic, visionary founder, who passed away Sept. 6 at the age of 88, and his complex…
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•September 11, 2025
Quiet Summer Afterglow With Waves and a Strange Absence of Tropical Activity
Boy, that got quiet. Tumbleweed Tuesday had come and gone, and one week after Labor Day Saturday – with temps still in the 80s, the ocean as warm as it gets, with abundant sunshine – the beaches and…
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•September 11, 2025
Little Egg Harbor Veteran Honored With Quilt of Valor
Jersey Shore Quilts of Valor Chapter 95426 honored Little Egg Harbor resident and U.S. Navy veteran Petty Officer 3rd Class Charles “Andy” Jackson with a quilt and heartfelt presentation on Tuesday…
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•September 11, 2025
Let’s Not Forget a Mosaic of Shore Memories
So ends another season at the Jersey Shore, and you may not be able to store all the memories in a photo album, but let’s not forget …
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•September 8, 2025
Late-Summer Chills Could Prevent Shot at Hottest-Ever Record
The flourish of cooler air that closed out an otherwise sizzling meteorological summer (June 1 to Aug. 31) might keep us out of the hottest-ever record books.
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•September 7, 2025
Bidding War Over Beloved Pig Helps Barnegat Light Auction Raise $50,000
When the gavel came down on White’s pig at $3,000, the crowd at the Barnegat Light Volunteer Fire Co. auxiliary’s 42nd annual auction knew they had witnessed something special. The fiberglass pig…
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•September 6, 2025
Wrapped in Memories of LBI With Custom T-Shirt Blanket
At the start of June, not long after she gave birth to her son, Christy Pitts was sorting through her closet and realized how many T-shirts she owned that featured Long Beach Island businesses. “I…
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•September 5, 2025
Central Avenue Redesign Collides With Traffic Safety Concerns
On the books, there is only one way by car off Long Beach Island: Eighth Street, also known as Route 72 West, in Ship Bottom. This summer, however, motorists increasingly seem to be taking different…
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•September 4, 2025
Sliding Joyfully Into the Best Time of Year
And as if someone yelled “last call,” the summertime revelers have packed up their e-bikes and weighted g-vests to head westward into the sunset. But anyone with any kind of ties to LBI can tell you…
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•September 4, 2025
Island Leaders Pay Tribute to Late Barnegat Light Mayor
The loss of Mayor Kirk O. Larson in Barnegat Light is a historic moment. Other Island mayors, officials and community members offered reactions and words of respect this week for the decades-long…
