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•August 27, 2024
LBT’s Angela Andersen Named to NJ Coastal Resilience Collaborative Leadership
The New Jersey Coastal Resilience Collaborative – a network of more than 75 diverse partners established to foster sustainable and resilient coastal communities and ecosystems – recently approved a…
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•August 26, 2024
Haven Beach Club Edges St. Francis to Score Third Straight Island Title
Among the Long Beach Island swim clubs each year, older swimmers age out and move onto other things in life during their summers. Some take jobs or return to their clubs as coaches, but the…
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•August 24, 2024
Barnegat Light Council Divided on Future Hotels, Motels
The Barnegat Light municipal meeting room overflowed into the hallway with residents concerned about preserving the borough’s character by preventing future hotels or motels from being built. But the…
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•August 23, 2024
Former College Runner Finally Grabs Top Spot in Dog Day Race
Sam Fowler has been climbing the ladder of High Point Volunteer Fire Co.’s Dog Day Road Race for nearly 10 years, first trekking through the streets of Harvey Cedars in 2016, when he was 14 years old.
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•August 22, 2024
Surf City Fighting for Beach Nourishment Inclusion
If the federal government needs any more convincing that Surf City beaches belong in the next periodic nourishment project, perhaps it isn’t the problem areas they should consider but the number of…
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•August 22, 2024
Team Effort Saves Anglers Trapped By Rising Waters in Barnegat Inlet
With a full moon tide and hurricane swells of up to 8 feet, Barnegat Inlet was the scene of a daring rescue on Sunday evening, Aug. 18, of two fishermen stranded on a Coast Guard structure marking…
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•August 22, 2024
Wildflowers Dog Show Fetches Funds for Animal Shelter
The 23rd annual Wildflowers Too Dog Show at Bay Breeze Park in Barnegat Light was held Tuesday, July 23, and a record-breaking number of spectators packed the pavilion.
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•August 22, 2024
55th Annual Beach Haven White Marlin Invitational Winner Got the ‘Fever’
Fishin’ Fever was the big winner of last week’s 55th annual White Marlin Invitational, held by the Beach Haven Marlin and Tuna Club…
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•August 22, 2024
Audience Favorites Mike Marino and Edwards Twins Returning to Surflight
Some familiar faces will appear at Surflight Theatre this coming week.
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•August 22, 2024
Wetlands Wildlife Is Photographer’s Focus
Anthony Ferraina is a Tuckerton-based wildlife photographer, writer and naturalist who has participated in shows and events on Long Beach Island since 2016 – Beach Haven Art Walk, Harvey Cedars Art…
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•August 20, 2024
How Kangaroo Rats Stopped a Highway; Public Trust Doctrine Shines in NJ
It’s hard to say with certainty that the trickle-down effects of once-Hurricane Debby knocked some seasonal sense into the Island’s ocean water temps, but there has been a welcome influx of warmer…
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•August 18, 2024
Lost Wedding Band Uncovers Connections
Last Wednesday, Aug. 7, Connor Murphy was sitting on a blanket on the Coral Street beach in Beach Haven when he overheard a person saying that someone had lost his wedding band on the beach.
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•August 17, 2024
Body Recovered Near Barnegat Lighthouse Thursday
Barnegat Lighthouse State Park is the site of an active investigation after a lifeless human body was spotted in Barnegat Inlet, just off the western shoreline of the park, shortly before 2 p.m. on…
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•August 15, 2024
High-Quality Indoor Pickleball Venue Slated for Stafford Township
Tom Neale walked into Lighthouse Deli in Surf City one Saturday, simply making a bagel run for his family.
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•August 15, 2024
LBI Beach Replenishment Work to Begin Later This Year
An Illinois-based company with a long history of conducting beach nourishment projects on Long Beach Island was awarded a $54.4 million contract to complete periodic replenishment on the LBI…
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•August 15, 2024
Debby Doesn’t Do Southern Ocean
Early last week, New Jersey weather forecasters were keeping a close eye on Hurricane Debby.
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•August 15, 2024
From Tragedy to Triumph: 3D-Printed Arm Brace Changes Lives
Hours after a routine research meeting about a breakthrough scientific innovation, Janelle Lenzo-Werner learned her colleague and best friend of 22 years, Gina Freeman, had died in a car accident on…
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•August 15, 2024
The Race to Enjoy Shortened Summer; After Debby, Possible Coming Hurricane Swell
Exactly this week last year, I wrote in Liquid Lines about how summer’s days were numbered and we should all be making the most of them. To quote that column: “Just go surf; doesn’t matter how good…
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•August 15, 2024
Beach Haven Teacher No. 1 in Ocean County
Jill Falletta, first-grade teacher at the Beach Haven School, was named Ocean County 2024-25 Teacher of the Year at a ceremony last week in Ewing.
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•August 15, 2024
Soul Project Returns With Brand New ‘Live From Norway’ Record
About once every summer, the Lizzie Rose Music Room opens its doors to a rip-roaring New Orleans act, the Soul Project NOLA, and this summer is no exception. The five-piece funk sensation is set to…
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•August 15, 2024
Melges 15 Dominates as Weather Works Out for Down Bay Regatta
Just a few days removed from the sprawling operation of the C420 U.S. National Championship, Little Egg Harbor Yacht Club shifted gears for its annual Down Bay Invitational Regatta, for which 152…
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•August 11, 2024
Finding Solace and Stories on ‘A Walk Along the Jersey Shore’
The coast elicits curiosity, contentment, maybe even awe in most all of us. As Jacques Cousteau observed, “The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” For author and…
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•August 10, 2024
Dolphins Depicted on Latest Giant Clam
On Monday, Aug. 12 at 10 a.m., ReClam the Bay will dedicate the latest “giant clam” outside the organization’s upweller station in Beach Haven. It is located by the emergency operations center at the…
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•August 9, 2024
Fisherman Statue Takes New Seat in Barnegat Light
For roughly nine years, the fisherman without a name sat on a barrel at various locations within the Zweier family home in Stafford Township, the latest of which was the dining room.
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•August 8, 2024
Harvey Cedars Dynasty Adds Ninth Straight Island Championship
No controversies. No complaints. No lengthy interruptions or arguments to disrupt the flow of events. For a change, the Island Lifeguard Championship tournament cruised through two evenings of…
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•August 8, 2024
Ocean County Judge Rules for Boatyard in DEP Legal Actions
An Ocean County Superior Court judge earlier this year ruled in favor of the owner of The Boatyard on several environmental matters, preventing the N.J. Department of Environmental Protection from…
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•August 8, 2024
LBI Artist Studio Tour Preview, Part Two
Editor’s Note: Of the five artists who are newcomers to the 2024 LBI Artist Studio Tour, two, Cortney Sabarese and Anna Salibello, were profiled in last week’s ArtBeat, along with Kevin Coogan, this…
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•August 8, 2024
Back From L.A. Stint, Danksters Crush It at the Shell
On Friday night, the Sea Shell Resort and Beach Club in Beach Haven provided the perfect environment for the creation of a symbiotic relationship between a band and its audience.
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•August 8, 2024
Sunrise Bay Resident Wrapped in Quilt of Valor
Sunrise Bay resident Frank McArdle was recognized for his courageous service with a Quilt of Valor during a ceremony held for him in his community clubhouse on July 27.
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•August 8, 2024
Wind, Water, Waves Feeling Like Endless Bummer; What Will Tropical Storm Debby Do?
My family came here for our a week vacation. We spent a lot of money on a shore house and the water was soooo cold!
