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•October 20, 2022
Chowder Champions Revealed at Fest
The chowder festival in Beach Haven Saturday, Oct. 15 celebrated standout shore soups whose tasters on the monthlong “Chowder Trail” voted as their favorites. Announcing those winners plus mingling…
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•October 20, 2022
LBI Grade School Alumni Open Time Capsule From 1972
Fifty years ago, a class of students at the Long Beach Island Grade School in Ship Bottom filled a wooden box with various objects, favorite possessions, photographs and hand-written musings to…
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•October 20, 2022
Falletta, DiPietro Lead the Way as Southern Takes Step Toward Possible Playoff Spot
With the football season only days away from the NJSIAA playoffs, Southern Regional made another push toward earning a spot in the Group V bracket on Oct. 14, when the Rams won a 16-7 contest on the…
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•October 20, 2022
Demolition Underway at Edwards School
By the end of the month, the Elizabeth Edwards School building in Barnegat Township should be only a memory.
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•October 20, 2022
Blood, Sweat and Cheers, Darlings: Jean Parker’s Christmas Spectacular Is Therapeutic Theater
Jean Parker’s Christmas Spectacular is both live stage show and livestreamed event, taking place at Albert Music Hall in Waretown on Sunday, Nov. 6 at 4 p.m. before a live, flesh-and-blood audience.
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•October 17, 2022
Poacher Busts Just Keep on Coming; A Bass Bonanza of All-Time Proportions
We are suffering through the latest the traffic signals have been left on in the fall. The big turn-off must await the rescheduled Chowderfest this weekend. Of course, suffering might be a bit much…
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•October 16, 2022
Lane Closure Expected to Cause Delays on Ninth Street in Ship Bottom
While the remaining fully cycling traffic lights on Long Beach Island return to flashing for the off-season Oct.17, traffic delays are expected this week as construction on Ninth Street in Ship…
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•October 16, 2022
Couple Goes Back to the Garden for 30th Anniversary
When two environmentalists and avid gardeners decide to marry, where should the wedding be? Indoors – or outside amid flowers and greenery of every kind?
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•October 15, 2022
Weather, Whales and Events Pick Us Up After Storm Punch
Sometimes I don’t know how we get through the day without positivity quote memes on Instagram.
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•October 14, 2022
All Safe in Barnegat After ‘Swatting’ Incident
The Barnegat Township School District was one of seven in the state that were victims of a “swatting” hoax on Friday, Oct. 13. In Ocean County, the Toms River and Jackson Township districts were also…
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•October 14, 2022
Ring the Bell: Ship Bottom Fire Co. Celebrates 100 Years of Volunteerism
Come one, come all for the parade of the century as the Ship Bottom Volunteer Fire Co. celebrates its 100th anniversary Oct. 15. The parade kicks off at noon followed by a block party with food, live…
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•October 13, 2022
Harvey Cedars Beaches Felt Wrath of Ian’s Remnants
Remnants of Hurricane Ian that struck the area for five days beginning two weekends ago resulted in battered beaches in Harvey Cedars, with many beach entrances in shambles.
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•October 13, 2022
First-Timer, Montclair Man Literally Wins Long Beach Island 18 Mile Run By a Mile
Roughly five minutes after the Long Beach Commemorative 18 Mile Run field took off from the starting line in Holgate on Oct. 9, Bill Fitzpatrick pulled the trigger to start the undercard race to this…
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•October 13, 2022
Stockton Researches Whether Oysters Can Help Eelgrass Take Root in Barnegat Bay
Last year, Elizabeth Lacey, associate professor of marine science at Stockton University, commenced a research project to determine if a berm of oysters could block current from disrupting eelgrass…
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•October 13, 2022
New CAFRA Violations Cited at Hotel LBI as NJDEP Considers Modified Permit
For the second time since opening its doors in the spring of 2019, the owner and operator of Hotel LBI in Ship Bottom has been issued a notice of violations by the N.J. Department of Environmental…
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•October 13, 2022
Looking Up Toward an Oct. 29 Lighthouse Relighting
Barnegat Lighthouse’s beacon will be relit on Saturday evening, Oct. 29, as part of an observance of the 10th anniversary of Superstorm Sandy.
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•October 13, 2022
Edgar Allan Poe Visits Tuckerton Tearoom
On Oct. 7, Lady Magpie’s Tea & Curiosities – situated inside the Captain’s House at the Tuckerton Seaport and Baymen’s Museum – celebrated macabre poet Edgar Allan Poe, who died 172 years ago to the…
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•October 11, 2022
Sea Shell Seeks Anglers for Striped Bass Derby
The Sea Shell Resort and Beach Club in Beach Haven is taking sign-ups for its 25th annual Striped Bass Derby, running Friday through Sunday, Oct. 28 to 30.
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•October 9, 2022
2022 Lighthouse Challenge Honors Towering Role of the Keeper
Legendary dedication is behind this year’s theme of the Lighthouse Challenge of New Jersey: “The Year of the Keeper.”
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•October 6, 2022
Traffic Lights on LBI to Remain Fully Cycling Until Oct. 17
Remnants of Hurricane Ian didn’t just give a lashing to the Long Beach Island region in terms of heavy flooding from excessive rain and high winds. It did the unthinkable, pushing back the annual…
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•October 6, 2022
Transplanted Locals Feel Ian’s Wrath
Aerial photos of Fort Myers Beach following Hurricane Ian’s destructive path made it look like the Florida west coast community got leveled by a nuclear explosion. Where thousands of homes stood are…
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•October 6, 2022
Kimmy’s Safe Haven Rescue Gives Animals a Second Chance
As a youngster in Manahawkin, Kim Brown looked after cats, dogs, rabbits, ducks, even squirrels, including one that fell out of a tree as a baby and broke his front teeth. Brown fed him and cared for…
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•October 6, 2022
New Oyster Shell Recycling Program Truck Makes the Rounds
Every Monday and Friday, Long Beach Township’s Oyster Recycling Program truck – now with a new vehicle wrap designed by the Jetty Rock Foundation – visits local restaurants to pick up oyster shells…
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•October 6, 2022
A Breakdown of Nor’Ian’s Worst Possible Storm Track; Cantore Blowing in the Wind
Is it me, or are we all pretty much quietly wishing to see Jim Cantore get washed away during a live broadcast?
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•October 6, 2022
Ian Morphs Into a Nor’easter Storm Thing; You, Too, Might Be a Born Asparagus Reader
It goes without saying – yet I shall – Ian the Demon was as bad as a ’cane comes … and then some. The then some was the totally unnecessary ass kicking it planted on us, for days on end. Ian has…
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•October 4, 2022
Long Beach Township Awarded Bay Islands Restoration Grant
Long Beach Township has been awarded a National Fish and Wildlife Foundation community resiliency grant in the amount of $87,065.68, to fund the restoration of five bay islands located in the waters…
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•October 3, 2022
Lizzie Rose to Return Indoors, Requests Support Through Transition
The rumors are true and the time has come at last for world-class acts to return to the intimate space that is the Lizzie Rose Music Room – yes, inside the building located at 217 East Main St. in…
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•September 28, 2022
Acupuncture for Damaged Plugging Shoulders; Tapping Into the Meyer’s Hole Menagerie Pack
I’m sort of short-winded this week. Yes, I of over-verbalness – more than once cited by the word police for offering columns exceeding the posted limits – am running on empty, which tangentially begs…
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•September 28, 2022
Places Enjoyed by Many May Now Belong to Few; Rocky Fling With Fiona, Mess of Hurricane Ian
It would seem that an awful lot of folks on Long Beach Island, and even those for whom this is a part-time home, are pretty upset at the news of the Long Beach Island Grade School being sold to a…
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•September 28, 2022
Furlong Is First Southern Junior ROTC Cadet to Become a Pilot
Before retiring from the Southern Regional School District in June, at the end of the last school year, Col. Joseph Potts brought Junior ROTC cadet Chloe Furlong into the sky in a plane, mostly to…
