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•May 26, 2025
Marking a WWII-Era Tragedy Over the Shore
March in Holgate is a quiet time of year. But 80 years ago, the skies would have been full of Navy aircraft on training missions. The throaty roar of 18-cylinder, 46-liter engines – that’s nearly…
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•May 25, 2025
What Constitutes a Great Summer as We Usher In Coming Season
Well, that new traffic pattern at the Ship Bottom Circle is going to give us all plenty to talk about at the big backyard gatherings and dock bars. Whether you’re local or summer folk, whether you’re…
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•May 24, 2025
Harvey Cedars Land Use Board Approves Scaled-Down Restaurant Plan
In a 6-1 vote last week, the Harvey Cedars Land Use Board approved an application by the owners of Azzurri Italian Cucina to expand their horizons by establishing a restaurant, Harvey Cedars House…
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•May 23, 2025
Memorial Day Parades, Services Scheduled as Area Pays Tribute to the Fallen
While Memorial Day weekend is celebrated as the unofficial start of summer, its beginning was solemn and a time to honor those who paid the ultimate sacrifice in the Civil War as their graves were…
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•May 22, 2025
A Century of Memories: Charlotte Irene Griffin Turns 100
On Sunday, March 30, Charlotte Irene Griffin, who found home on both shores of Barnegat Bay, celebrated her 100th birthday.
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•May 22, 2025
Beach Replenishment Done in Harvey Cedars
After a series of delays getting started and some interruptions once it was operational, the Harvey Cedars beach replenishment has been successfully completed, with refurbished beaches stretching…
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•May 22, 2025
Southern Regional Field Renovation Pushed Back a Year
Hold the phone. The arrival of Southern Regional High School’s new turf field inside Goldberger Memorial Stadium is going to be delayed.
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•May 22, 2025
Stafford Police Ride in Unity to Honor the Fallen
Since the Police Unity Tour began in 1997, it has grown from a humble 18-cyclist ride to one that now consists of nine chapters of some 2,500 participants, and the Stafford Township Police Department…
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•May 22, 2025
What Will Become of White’s Market?
On the topic of saving White’s Market, a summer fixture for 60 years, the Barnegat Light Taxpayers’ Association will hold a public meeting on Sunday, May 25 at 2 p.m. at the Bay Breeze Pavilion. Upon…
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•May 22, 2025
Quilts of Valor Wrap Father and Son in Special Ceremony
In just a year since its inception, the Jersey Shore Chapter of Quilts of Valor has blanketed Southern Ocean County with warmth and gratitude, reassuring active duty military that they are not alone…
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•May 22, 2025
2025 LIFF’s Closing Film, ‘American Sweatshop,’ Is a Drama-Thriller
The 2025 Lighthouse International Film Festival has announced its closing film: “American Sweatshop,” a 100-minute drama making its East Coast premiere.
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•May 22, 2025
An Artist for All Seasons Explores Concepts of Identity, Home
At 24, Nataliia Shtybel has already had six years of collegiate fine art training, a job as a preschool teacher, and the life-changing experience of moving to the United States from Ukraine after…
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•May 19, 2025
LBI Grade School Students Create Upcycled Tote Bags
Kids attending the Long Beach Island Grade School have a unique childhood, having grown up surrounded by water and the beautiful natural ecosystems on Long Beach Island. Fifth grade English Language…
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•May 18, 2025
Slide Show Features Old Barnegat City Photos
The Beach Haven Public Library will host a slide talk by historian and author Margaret Thomas Buchholz on Wednesday, May 21 at 1 p.m.
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•May 17, 2025
Scallops to Sand Dollars: Stories Behind LBI’s Shells
According to a modern Hawaiian legend, the goddess Pele will follow anyone who pockets a shell, a rock or even a pinch of sand from the Pacific archipelago with a lifetime of bad luck. Fortunately…
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•May 16, 2025
Southern Sailors Qualify for National Regatta Again
After qualifying for the Mallory National Fleet Race Championship last spring, the Southern Regional sailing squad gave a repeat performance May 10 and 11.
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•May 15, 2025
Surf City Beach Perfect Place to Kick Off Summer Tourism Season
Against the backdrop of a cloudless sky, rolling waves, beachgoers and surf fishermen, the unofficial start of the summer season arrived a little early this year in Surf City as members of the Ocean…
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•May 15, 2025
New North-South Traffic Patterns in Ship Bottom Take Shape
With the unofficial start of the summer season less than two weeks away, the traffic shift at the former Causeway Circle in Ship Bottom has some motorists shaking their heads at the configuration and…
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•May 15, 2025
Rotary Club of LBI Marks 75 Years of ‘Service Above Self’
The Rotary Club of Long Beach Island was formed 75 years ago in the spring of 1950 by 22 men dedicated to nurturing their community through relationships, partnerships and financial support. Its…
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•May 15, 2025
The Real ID Dilemma as We Can Finally Call This Spring
I figure this week I would go and get my Real ID, specifically since we were supposed to have it by last week. I’ve been putting it off. I guess technically, I’ve been putting it off since it was…
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•May 15, 2025
Beachy, Rustic, Original: Painter Nita Shapiro Celebrates 20 Years of Art, Decor at Surf City
“Whoever comes to us is not looking for mainstream,” gallery owner and artist Nita Shapiro explained, talking about her shop, Art & Décor at Surf City.
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•May 15, 2025
Fringe Performer Teaches Harmonica Through Interactive Theater
Anyone who identifies as a performer or a creative in any sense has probably been challenged by the older generation to do something more “legitimate” with their time, faced with the question “What…
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•May 13, 2025
Surfrider Files Lawsuits to Stop New Offshore Oil Drilling
The Surfrider Foundation is taking legal action to prevent the federal government from approving new offshore drilling off the nation’s coasts following President Trump’s executive order revoking a…
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•May 12, 2025
New Stafford Library on Pace for Completion During Coming Months
It seems with each week that passes, the new Stafford Township branch of the Ocean County Library system is close to opening. Well, it’s getting closer, for sure.
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•May 10, 2025
Merciless Gnats Arising: Hatch of No-See-Ums Will Bug Bayside Flukers
You likely heard a second arrest has been made in the Jones Road wildfire. It made all the national news broadcasts, with one station claiming the wildfire was still burning – as if N.J. allows…
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•May 9, 2025
Dancing Life Into Her Years, Lois Allen Marks 70-Year Milestone
Lois Allen was 18 years old in 1955 when she opened her first dance studio, the Lois Allen School of the Dance in Clark, followed the same year by two more, in Newark and Edison. On Friday, May 2…
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•May 8, 2025
Al Fresco Dining Measure Proposed in Ship Bottom
Five years after a global pandemic dictated an outside-the-box approach to dining out, a return of Gov. Phil Murphy’s regulations is here, but not without local complications.
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•May 8, 2025
Surf City EMS Welcomes New Ambulance to Its Fleet
A custom-built ambulance arrived in Surf City last week, destination the firehouse between Seventh and Eighth streets. Its purpose is twofold: replace its nearly three-decade old predecessor and…
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•May 8, 2025
Southern Boys Tennis Team Clinches Tie for Division Crown
After losing most of his lineup following last season’s championship season, Southern Regional boys tennis coach Evan Brosniak must be pleased his Rams aren’t merely in contention for the Shore…
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•May 8, 2025
Southern Ocean Medical Center Raises Safety to A-Rating
Manahawkin’s Southern Ocean Medical Center recently received very good news. The latest Leapfrog Group Hospital Safety report card gave SOMC an A grade when it came to preventing hospital errors…
