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•April 17, 2025
Community Art to Champion Historic Preservation in Barnegat Light
Barnegat Light’s Wildflowers boutique and gallery owner Cricket Luker, advocate for the arts and animal rights, has a new idea for a community art project that would celebrate local historic…
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•April 17, 2025
Jason Alexander to Headline 2025 Lighthouse International Film Festival
The 2025 Lighthouse International Film Festival, which will be held June 4 through 8, will be keynoted by none other than Jason Alexander, best known as George Costanza in the NBC sitcom “Seinfeld.”
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•April 17, 2025
Celebrate Earth Day at Community Cleanups
As Earth Day, April 22, approaches, there are plenty of ways to honor and clean up the beaches, woods and waterways so many build their lives around in Southern Ocean County. If you’re looking for a…
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•April 17, 2025
Bodony, Reilly Lead County; Southern Repeats as Team Champion
Jackson Bodony had one of those “Why not?” moments as he walked up to the first hole at Charleston Springs Golf Course in Millstone on April 14.
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•April 14, 2025
LBI Residents Give Voice to Hands Off Movement
Against the backdrop of a misty Saturday in April and with a national stand against President Donald J. Trump and Elon Musk taking place across the country, more than 1,500 participants found their…
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•April 13, 2025
Ship Bottom to Highlight Its History All Year
From commemorative beach badges and lamppost signs to moving the borough council’s May meeting to the firehouse, Ship Bottom is going all out to celebrate its 100th year as Long Beach Island’s…
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•April 11, 2025
Experienced, Talented Southern Regional Sailors Could Make Another Run at National Regatta
Southern Regional sailing coach Steve Warren is a realist. He has a great team, perhaps one of the best under his tutelage. But he also knows sailing isn’t some cut-and-dried endeavor, despite the…
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•April 10, 2025
Gray Seal Pup Rescued in North Beach ‘Doing Well’
On March 26, the Marine Mammal Stranding Center received an urgent call about a gray seal pup entangled in fishing line in North Beach. Since his subsequent rescue by MMSC staff, the male seal has…
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•April 10, 2025
Decoy Carver Teaches Students at Tuckerton Elementary
Tuckerton Seaport offers a variety of educational programming, and is now bringing its efforts into the classroom with the launch of an in-school folk artist residency at Tuckerton Elementary School.…
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•April 10, 2025
NJ’s New Mapping Tool Bolsters Coastal Wetlands Resilience
Earlier this month the N.J. Department of Environmental Protection unveiled an informational website and mapping tool, at nj-tidal-wetland-monitoring-network-njdep.hub.arcgis.com, to help the public…
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•April 10, 2025
Save LBI Continues Push to Protect Right Whale
Months after first floating the idea of a safe migration corridor from Maine to Georgia for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, a local grassroots organization filed a 234-page…
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•April 10, 2025
April 12 Science Saturday: All About New Jersey Seafood
Dive into a discussion of the various types of seafood found in New Jersey – whether harvested by commercial and recreational fisheries or grown by aquaculture farmers – when Douglas Zemeckis from…
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•April 10, 2025
Spotted at Popcorn Park Animal Refuge: Bobcat Kittens
In January, the Popcorn Park Animal Refuge welcomed two new residents: Ricochet and Rebound, a young brother-and-sister pair of bobcats. Born on July 4, 2024, they arrived at the Forked River…
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•April 10, 2025
Expert Appraiser to Speak at LBI Library
You hear it almost every day, and it’s happening all across America. Your heirs can’t use or have no room for the things you’ve kept for them.
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•April 7, 2025
Soul Kitchen Welcomes Beach Haven Students
Beach Haven School’s sixth-graders recently visited the JBJ Soul Kitchen in Toms River, where the youngsters learned that the eatery and the Monmouth and Ocean County Food Pantry are part of the BEAT…
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•April 6, 2025
Native Wildflowers Highlight Median Strip Garden
With a keen interest in preserving natural habitats, 20 Island residents gathered to launch a native wildflower garden on March 27 in the North Beach section of Long Beach Township. Located on the…
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•April 5, 2025
Spring Tradition Soon Underway as Trout Season Opens April 5
More than 180,000 freshly stocked rainbow trout and larger broodstock – large, mature trout ranging in size from 14 to 26 in. and weighing up to 7 pounds – will be available to area anglers when…
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•April 4, 2025
Beach Project Begins in Harvey Cedars
Beach replenishment is officially underway in Harvey Cedars as the dredge arrived off the Hudson Avenue beach shortly after 11:30 p.m. Sunday. The renourishment project is designed to maintain the…
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•April 3, 2025
Ship Bottom Public Works Springs Forward With Heavy Workload
With the anticipated completion of the final phase of the Causeway project less than 90 days away, employees from the Ship Bottom Public Works Department have their job cut out for them getting the…
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•April 3, 2025
She’s Still Bowling at Age 100 … and Having a Ball
Holding the ball out in front of her thighs, slightly hunched forward, Betty Mantore eyed the 10 pins at the end of lane 14 inside Thunderbird Lanes in Manahawkin. Seconds later, she shuffled…
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•April 3, 2025
Pinelands Has the Hunger, Tools to Make Run at Shore Conference Crown
While the NJSIAA is just beginning to get its bearings and soon will make girls flag football a statewide, interscholastic sport, the Shore Conference has been at it for five years now. Of course…
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•April 3, 2025
Precarious Positions in the Between Seasons and Events Stacking Up
Well, it appears we made it out of March with only a few baby lions and a nice day with a pet lamb. And now it’s April, a month generally known for third winter and guarded optimism.
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•April 3, 2025
Calm Weather Gave Ospreys a Boost in 2024
Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey is happy to report last year was a favorable one for ospreys, the large raptors that are well-known in coastal areas, and that are about to begin another…
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•April 3, 2025
Soothing Buzz of Mechanical Bees Droning Over Crops
When it comes to developing robotic bugs, the beautiful minds at MIT can sometimes come off as a bit batty, if not downright flitty.
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•April 1, 2025
LBI Garden Club Springs Into Action
March 19 proved to be a busy day for the Garden Club of LBI as it reached out to both the younger and older members of the community.
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•March 31, 2025
LBI Job Fair at St. Francis Community Center April 5
The Long Beach Island Chamber of Commerce works diligently to attract visitors to LBI and, in addition, is always looking for ways to aid the local business community. Each spring, as part of that…
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•March 29, 2025
Recycle Old Wetsuits Through Rutgers University
Through May 30, the Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Ocean County, part of the university’s New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, is accepting old and used neoprene wetsuits at its Toms River…
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•March 28, 2025
Through Cupcakes, Stafford Twins Take Aim at Culinary Education Tour in Italy
Growing up within a Dominican household in the Bronx, N.Y., cooking became a passion early in the lives of Danna and Amy Jimenez.
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•March 27, 2025
Southern Ocean Drought Situation Improves
Recent rainfalls have taken Southern Ocean County out of the “extreme drought” category, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
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•March 27, 2025
New Eatery Proposed at Former HCH Realty Site
The owners of Azzurri Italian Cucina in Harvey Cedars are looking to expand their horizons by establishing a 132-seat restaurant at the old site of hch Realty, which closed its doors last fall. The…
