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•October 4, 2023
Forest Fire Service Sees $3M Budget Boost
With New Jersey facing increasing wildlife risks due to climate change, the Murphy administration is providing an additional $3 million to the state Forest Fire Service budget to enhance protection…
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•October 4, 2023
Harvey Cedars Looking to Lay in Donor Bricks at Sunset Park
The first phase of a beautification project at Sunset Park in Harvey Cedars has been completed, with the next stage involving laying in donor bricks. The project is a partnership with the borough and…
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•October 4, 2023
Ophelia Is Gone … So Are the Sandbars; Trying to Resume Local Summer After the Battering
Last week’s extended storm was a real kick in the teeth.
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•October 4, 2023
Feted Festival Names New Chowder Champs, Fights Hunger
They came. They chowed down. They voted.
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•October 2, 2023
Ophelia Prompts Kite Festival Move Back to Ship Bottom
It appears Mother Nature has her own ideas for the ninth annual LBI FLY International Kite Festival as Tropical Storm Ophelia’s wake, in the form of beach conditions at 68th Street in Long Beach…
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•September 29, 2023
Summertime Again: Plein Air Plus at LBIF
In judging the eighth annual Plein Air Plus Exhibition, art juror Kiko Aebi, curatorial assistant at New York City’s Modern Museum of Art, said she was “overwhelmed by the quality and diversity of…
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•September 28, 2023
Fall Love Letter Interrupted by Hate Mail to Tropical Storm Ophelia
I’m going to take the risk of sounding a bit sexist here, but my aim is not to be offensive.
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•September 28, 2023
Historic Cox House Revamping Underway
The first of two phases of extensive improvements and renovations to the historic Cox House in Barnegat Township has begun.
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•September 27, 2023
Still Some Time to Get Signed Up for Annual 18 Mile Run Event
For the 50th edition of the Long Beach Island Commemorative 18 Mile Run, race founder Bill Fitzpatrick chose not to walk the 18 miles, but rather took the shorter route to St. Francis Community…
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•September 27, 2023
Kline, Kobilynk Rise to Challenge, Help Keep Pinelands Undefeated
The target on the back of the Pinelands Regional football team continues to grow, and that’s OK.
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•September 27, 2023
A Time the Pinelands Almost Took Flight; Ophelia Lights Fire Under Marine Life
What the cyclonic Lady Ophelia lacked in arrival strength, she made up for in staying power, lasting for many windy days on end. She fattened up on beach sand before finally moseying off to the…
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•September 27, 2023
Veterans Unite to ‘Make It Right’ for Victimized Widow
Manahawkin native Amanda Simpson moved back to Ocean Acres from Lacey Township this summer after her husband, Scott Simpson, a Marine Corps veteran with PTSD, took his own life in their garage. At…
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•September 27, 2023
LBI Library Friends Get to the ‘Hearth’ of the Matter
Amy Hill Hearth, Peabody Award winner and internationally published author, was the featured speaker at a Friends of the Island Library Author Luncheon held at daddy O in Brant Beach on Wednesday…
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•September 27, 2023
Free Surf Fishing Seminar Oct. 7 at Ship Bottom Firehouse
Novice and experienced anglers alike are encouraged to join “Bayside Dave” Etelman and Fisherman’s Headquarters’ Greg Cudnik at this year’s “opening day” surf fishing seminar – held annually at the…
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•September 27, 2023
Beach Haven Takes Local Brunt of Ophelia
Although it was preceded by various warnings and advisories, Tropical Storm Ophelia did nothing extraordinary on Long Beach Island, according to various town officials.
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•September 27, 2023
Look Up: Ninth LBI Fly International Kite Festival Oct. 6-8
Since the first year of the LBI Fly International Kite Festival, in 2015, area residents and visitors alike have to come to know, and eagerly anticipate, that early fall means a weekend full of…
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•September 27, 2023
2025 Is New End Date for Causeway Project
Completion of the state’s multi-year, federally funded $312 million Causeway expansion and rehabilitation project has been pushed back from late 2024 to early 2025.
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•September 26, 2023
Red Men Lodge Thrilled By Visit From County Health Department
Tuckerton’s Red Men Lodge was visited by three representatives of the Ocean County Health Department last Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 12.
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•September 25, 2023
Albert Music Hall Dedicates Day to Pinelands Culture
Under the auspices of the Pinelands Cultural Society, the Albert Music Hall in Waretown for decades has been the go-to place for Saturday evening concerts featuring mostly country and bluegrass…
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•September 24, 2023
Surf City Undertakes Water Tower Project
The scaffolding that envelopes the water tower behind Surf City Borough Hall is easy enough to see from ground level, but as the eyes move up it becomes slightly more difficult to take the whole…
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•September 23, 2023
Harvey Cedars Gets Update on Beach Conditions
At the Sept. 18 meeting of the Harvey Cedars Board of Commissioners, Kimberly McKenna, interim director of the Stockton University Coastal Research Center, made a presentation regarding beach erosion…
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•September 22, 2023
Werner and Aji Take 2023 Jetty Clam Jam Title; Hurricane Lee Played Starring Role
Dave Werner and Brian Aji are names that have been mentioned many times in the history of the Jetty Clam Jam. Werner, 44, has surfed all 17 Clam Jams to date. Brian Aji, 26, has surfed it since he…
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•September 21, 2023
Surf City Badge Checkers Successful Despite Pushback From Some Beachgoers
Even as badge checkers were lauded for their part in the borough’s nearly $53,000 increase in beach revenue over 2022, there was discussion about how to ensure they remain safe during interactions…
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•September 21, 2023
Southern Regional Unbeaten Through First Four Games of Season
For as disappointed as his Southern Regional High School boys soccer team might have been following its tie with Toms River South on Sept. 13, head coach Robert Muñoz had to remind his squad that it…
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•September 21, 2023
Lightship Barnegat May See Restoration in Camden
Its days on the high seas behind it, the rusted Barnegat lightship now mired in mud at a Camden marina may get at least partially repaired now that Camden County is turning the marina into a park and…
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•September 21, 2023
Photography Show at Pine Shores Offers an Artist’s-Eye View
The works of art currently on display in the Manahawkin gallery of the Pine Shores Art Association are photographs offering a glimpse of the creative vantage points of the people behind the cameras.
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•September 21, 2023
Fruit Flies Tackle Closed-Head Traumatic Brain Injuries; It’s a Fine Time to Ponder Small Modular Reactors
Watching any football lately? For aficionados, there’s little doubt that the game has never been played at such brain-rattling levels. Now, coming to the rescue of players’ white matter comes … the…
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•September 21, 2023
While Workers Go on Strike, the Ocean Does Not; Notes From a Scorching Tropical Surf Season
It almost seemed like the tropics were on strike earlier this season. Thankfully they decided to come back in full force.
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•September 19, 2023
With Swimming in Their Blood, Molettiere Sisters Work Hard to Make Waves in the Pool
One starts practice at 5:30 a.m. some days, while the other starts a bit later in the morning. One prefers sprints, but the other likes distance. One enjoys pasta with red sauce and venison sausage…
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•September 18, 2023
Environmental Alliance Challenges Accepted Offshore Sonar Levels
Saying protective distances adopted by the National Marine Fisheries Service for incidental harassment authorizations related to offshore wind sonar work is having the opposite effect, Save the Right…
