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•March 27, 2025
Old Brewster Sisters Aren’t as Innocent as They Seem
The Little Egg Theatre Company will perform the classic dark comedy “Arsenic and Old Lace” at the Little Egg Harbor Township Community Center in Mystic Island this coming weekend.
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•March 27, 2025
Speaker Focuses on N.J. Maritime History
New Jersey’s sweeping coastline has always been inviting and treacherous to sailors. An estimated 3,000 ships met their doom near its shores.
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•March 27, 2025
Southern Regional, Barnegat Return Many Experienced Players, Potent Offenses
Experience matters in varsity athletics. There’s no hiding this fact. Fortunately, the Southern Regional boys lacrosse squad has plenty of it.
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•March 27, 2025
Learn About the LBT Field Station at March 29 Science Saturday
Log onto Zoom on March 29 for a Science Saturday presentation detailing Long Beach Township’s “hidden gem in Holgate” – the LBT Field Station, on the bay on Osborn Avenue. Angela Andersen, who…
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•March 25, 2025
LBI Donors Help Purchase Ambulance for Troops in Ukraine
At the Lighthouse International Film Society’s January screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary “Porcelain War” at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences in Loveladies, and in…
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•March 24, 2025
Southern Regional Air Force Junior ROTC Drill Team Scores Big at Nationals
The bar has been raised to a new level within the Southern Regional High School Junior ROTC program. Its drill team scored big at the Air Force JROTC Open Drill Nationals this past weekend.
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•March 23, 2025
Not Just Swimming: A Summer Team Can Help Grow a Child in Unique Ways
Every August, the atmosphere surrounding the Long Beach Island Swim Club Championships is electric. But it’s more than a big swim meet with championship ramifications and ribbons to give away.
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•March 22, 2025
Business Owners Blaze Another Trail as Volunteer Firefighters
When Peter Maschal’s wife, Laura, rescheduled her husband’s chiropractic patients and left a note on the door just before Christmas, everyone understood.
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•March 21, 2025
Feds Pull Plug on Atlantic Shores’ Environmental Permit
A federal environmental appeals court judge dealt New Jersey’s offshore wind program another blow last week after she remanded a Clean Air Act permit for what is expected to be the state’s first wind…
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•March 20, 2025
Bill in New Jersey Assembly Could Mean No Badges Needed for Surfers and Fishermen
It’s possible that by this summer, if one member of a family renting a house in Harvey Cedars wants to go surfing with friends in Beach Haven, he or she will not need to worry about a Beach Haven…
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•March 20, 2025
Electricity Demand Sparks Nuclear Energy Debate
A New Jersey congressman with the largest district in the state said nuclear energy should be part of a multi-faceted response to the nation’s energy crisis as questions about offshore development…
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•March 20, 2025
‘Thinking Late Winter’ Instead of ‘Thinking Spring’ as the Atlantic Finally Comes Alive to Mixed Results
It feels like it’s been a very long time since there was good swell to report. Writing a surf column without surf is about as fun as playing pickleball alone (see … I know my audience).
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•March 20, 2025
$35.5 Million in Additional LBI Beachfill Funding Sought
Congressman Jeff Van Drew is asking the appropriate federal authority to prioritize an additional $35.5 million to fund beach replenishment on Long Beach Island. A resolution from Surf City officials…
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•March 20, 2025
Christina Hoglander’s Paintings Have Fantastical Flair, Her Pottery Whimsy
Although she is known as a pottery instructor and studio technician, Christina Hoglander always finds herself coming back to painting. Since she doesn’t share them often, she explained, she took the…
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•March 20, 2025
State Urges Wildfire Awareness, Water Conservation as Drought Conditions Persist
The Murphy administration is urging the public to continue exercising wildfire awareness and practicing water conservation as drought conditions persist in the state – particularly as springtime is…
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•March 17, 2025
Tuckerton Library 150 Years Old as County System Celebrates Centennial
While the Ocean County Library System celebrates its centennial this September, the system’s Tuckerton branch celebrates its sesquicentennial on May 3.
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•March 16, 2025
Life Through Sean Connelly’s Lens
Photographer and videographer Sean Connelly has “always been captivated by the beauty of our planet,” and he loves sharing his resultant artwork with others, he said.
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•March 15, 2025
LBI Kids Help Tap Trees for Stockton University’s Growing Maple Syrup Project
Five years after its start, more than 12,000 gallons of sap have been collected, and more than 150 gallons of maple syrup created, as part of Stockton University’s Maple Project – proving “Vermont…
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•March 14, 2025
Sea Tow Captain, Crew Recognized for ‘Efforts Above and Beyond’
All was quiet at Key Harbor Marina in Waretown on Sept. 20, 2024 until Capt. Walt Bohn, general manager of Sea Tow Central New Jersey, heard a report of a missing boater 2 miles offshore come across…
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•March 13, 2025
Gesicki Re-Signs with Cincinnati, Receives Three-Year Deal Worth $25.5 Million
Mike Gesicki wanted to stay in Cincinnati, to remain one of Joe Burrow’s pass-game targets with an offense he enjoys and help try to win a Super Bowl. He received his wish over the weekend.
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•March 13, 2025
Bay Plunge Fulfills Maritime Museum Promise
Late last year, the New Jersey Maritime Museum in Beach Haven launched a fund drive to make infrastructure repairs to the Dock Road building. And to make it a little more interesting, if the target…
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•March 13, 2025
In an Extreme Crunch, Dining on Bunker Bait Might Not Be So Bad
A quick but deserved and timely rant. This biannual time switch thing has gotta go, one way or the other. It’s either sunny side up or over easy, spoken like a former breakfast cook (Noller’s in…
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•March 13, 2025
Sci-Fi Novelist Returns to His Barnegat Roots
Barnegat native Brian Seidel, a former TV producer for networks including HGTV, Magnolia and Animal Planet, recently published a sci-fi book for young readers and couldn’t wait to share it with…
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•March 13, 2025
Local Women Making Moves in Music
In the spirit of Women’s History Month, singer-songwriter and event organizer Amy Elizabeth Mclain will emcee her Creative Local Ladies Showcase on Friday, March 21 at the Lizzie Rose Music Room. The…
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•March 13, 2025
Born for Greatness, Stout Climbs to Where the Southern Elites Reside
Southern Regional assistant wrestling coach Luke Lanno has a picture on his phone that dates back to his high school years, and in that photo he was happily holding a newborn Wyatt Stout.
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•March 11, 2025
Riders on the Storm Brave Harshest LBI Weather
The winter season has now been fully thrust upon us with intense storms, high winds and plunging temperatures replete with ice and snow. Real winter living on the Island allows us to experience and…
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•March 10, 2025
HCPD Raffle Ticket Leads to a Proposal in Tropical Paradise
Sometimes, fate has a way of bringing people together in the most unexpected and beautiful ways. That’s exactly what happened for Danny Maurus and Abigail Lohrmann, a Harvey Cedars couple whose love…
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•March 9, 2025
Southern Regional’s Stout Finds Way to Snag Crown in Grueling Championship Clash
As the Boardwalk Hall crowd roared its excitement, Wyatt Stout lay on the mat, momentarily staring at the ceiling. Exhaustion had set in, and not just because he had spent 8½ minutes grappling with…
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•March 7, 2025
Island Mayors Push NJBPU to Pull Plug on Offshore Wind Farm Off LBI
All six Island mayors are among signatories urging the N.J. Board of Public Utilities to vacate the 2021 offshore wind renewable energy credits it awarded to Atlantic Shores for its project 1 and…
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•March 6, 2025
Red-Banded Osprey From Long Beach Island Rescued in Trinidad
Through Project RedBand, young ospreys on Barnegat Bay are affixed with red auxiliary field-readable bands to enable future tracking. According to Ben Wurst, senior wildlife biologist with Conserve…
