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•November 25, 2021
Partners Collaborate to Protect Bay Islands
It is estimated that nearly 7%, or 3,000 acres, of bay island landmass in Ocean County and Atlantic County waters has been lost since 1977, and that should be a concern. The bay islands, though, are…
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•November 25, 2021
Surflight’s 2022 Main Stage Season Offers a Wide Variety of Shows
Surflight Theatre has announced its 2022 season, and its main stage lineup follows a pattern long set by producing artistic director Steve Steiner: a mixture of sure-fire hit musicals and other shows…
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•November 25, 2021
2022 LBI Beach Replenishment Project Could See Delay
With just 38 days until the new year, the expected 2022 timeframe for the next periodic beach replenishment project for Long Beach Island doesn’t seem as far away as it did when the U.S. Army Corps…
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•November 25, 2021
NJ-Specific Studies Confirm Climate Change Is Intensifying Rainfall
The N.J. Department of Environmental Protection has released two studies by the Northeast Regional Climate Center – a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration partner – confirming increases in…
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•November 25, 2021
Christmas Tree Lighting, Ye Olde Christmas in Tuckerton
After Thanksgiving dinner, line up along the boardwalk to observe Tuckerton’s annual tree lighting. Arrive at Stewart’s Root Beer at 6 p.m. to enjoy hot cocoa and Christmas carols sung in the style…
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•November 25, 2021
Enter LBI Surf Fishing Classic and Weigh in a Winner
Recent history has shown the next few weeks of the year yield the most fish weighed in for the annual Long Beach Island Surf Fishing Classic. According to the tournament committee’s Jim Hutchinson…
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•November 25, 2021
The Odd Affiliation of Gulf Auctions and Windmills; Autumnal Striped Bass Remain Big on the Three ‘B’s
When it comes to us Earthlings possibly allowing the planet to die during our watch, I’m genetically inclined to be upbeat, clinging to a live-long-and-prosper attitude. I vow that we, as a global…
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•November 23, 2021
Revenge Tourism Was Born on LBI; Stripers Making a Sudsy Comeback
VENGEANCE TAKES HOLIDAY: As we speak, travel revenge, also known as tourist revenge, is all the buzz.
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•November 22, 2021
Fisherman’s Cottage Will Make Holiday Debut for Tours
On Saturday, Nov. 27, the LBI Historical Association Museum in Beach Haven will feature a first-time public preview of its Fisherman’s Cottage from noon to 4 p.m.
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•November 20, 2021
Beach Haven Announces ‘Gator’ Service
Elderly and disabled people will have improved access to Beach Haven beaches as the borough has announced it will be offering Gator service beginning next summer.
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•November 19, 2021
NJ Piping Plover Breeding Population Sees Sharp Rise in 2021
According to Todd Pover, senior wildlife biologist with Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey, this year’s piping plover breeding season had both highs and lows.
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•November 19, 2021
Military Honor Wall at Pinelands Regional High School Unveiled
It’s been years in the making, percolating in the minds of Pinelands Regional High School principal Troy Henderson and science teacher Jim Ardoin. On Saturday, Nov. 13, the dream became a reality…
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•November 18, 2021
Former Cattle Rancher Living Dream to Sail Around the World
David Galdo, by definition, is restless. For two decades, he was in a constant state of activity and movement as he built not one but two businesses. A different sense of restlessness is what…
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•November 18, 2021
Harvey Cedars Has Perks for Lifeguards, Firefighters and First Aid Squad
Four restaurants that serve breakfast and lunch announced they will be giving a 10% discount to all members of the Harvey Cedars Beach Patrol throughout next summer.
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•November 17, 2021
Surf City Painter Gwenn Seemel Participates in Artists Sunday
The international campaign known as Artists Sunday, on Nov. 28, is sandwiched between Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday – right in the middle of the long weekend that heralds the annual…
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•November 17, 2021
Cancer Survivor the First to Go Perfect on Thunderbird’s Synthetic Lanes
If not for the many doctors, nurses, researchers and medical staff members at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and other facilities, Chuck Jackson may have been dead long before he tossed his…
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•November 17, 2021
Officer Weber’s Beat: School Halls in Barnegat
Deadly school shootings that started with Columbine in 1999 forever changed the way police officers across New Jersey, and America, safeguard our schoolchildren. Now, to help schoolchildren rebound…
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•November 16, 2021
Pole Removal on Stafford Avenue Underway
In the final week of October, Atlantic City Electric began proactively removing approximately 100 aging utility poles, wire and associated energy infrastructure from a defunct distribution line route…
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•November 15, 2021
Shopping the Shore for Good of LBI; Why We Have to Ferret Out Veterinarians
CLAUS FOR CONCERN: This entire hubbub over hellish gaps in the holiday supply chain of holiday goods has me, along with a boatload of others, detecting an all too convenient act of reaching early…
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•November 13, 2021
‘Daylight Complainings’ Time During a Great Month on LBI
Did you feel like Sunday night’s sunset was more than just another pretty sunset? It kind of felt like a peace offering.
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•November 10, 2021
Beach Haven Talks Business District’s Future
Determining the future of the main business district in Beach Haven has been a topic on and off the back burner for years, and at a meeting Monday night, Nov. 8, the borough council began what looks…
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•November 10, 2021
Barnegat Girls Volleyball Team Snags Second State Sectional Crown in School History
Inside the Barnegat High School gymnasium hangs the banner honoring the boys swim team for its state sectional championship from 2019. Heading into this week, it was the only sectional title in…
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•November 10, 2021
Local Towns, Veterans Groups to Hold Veterans Day Observances
President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued the first Veterans Day Proclamation in 1954, stating, “In order to insure proper and widespread observance of this anniversary, all veterans, all veterans’…
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•November 10, 2021
Crafting ‘Natural Cut Knives’ Is One Veteran’s Therapy
A hornet’s nest is a thing of beauty in the keen eyes of a craftsman, a military veteran who turns nature into keepsake knife handles in a knife-making process that serves to ease his post-traumatic…
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•November 10, 2021
Long Beach Township Prepares for Jan. 1 Start of Water Meter Usage
On Jan. 1, Long Beach Township will begin using the new water meters installed throughout the municipality over the past couple of years. The township had planned to set the residential water base…
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•November 10, 2021
Eagleswood Eyes Vacant Lot to Purchase, Preserve as Open Space
The N.J. Department of Environmental Protection’s Green Acres Program keeps a database of parcels called the Recreation and Open Space Inventory. Listed on that inventory is the small, privately…
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•November 10, 2021
Three Island Towns Agree to Share Services for Traffic Control Duty
Ship Bottom is getting a little help from its friends as part of a shared-services agreement that will see Harvey Cedars and, if necessary, Surf City, police officers back up off-duty borough law…
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•November 10, 2021
Dredging Companies Mobilize in Little Egg Harbor
The dredging of lagoons in Mystic Island Phase 1 and the Atlantis section of Little Egg Harbor Township will begin this month. The N.J. Department of Transportation contractor is already mobilizing…
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•November 10, 2021
Final Car Show of the Season on Nov. 13
Do you have a vintage automobile to show off? The Barnegat Township Recreation Department and the Sentimental Cruisers Car Club invite you to participate Saturday, Nov. 13, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at…
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•November 8, 2021
Holiday Badges on Sale in Beach Haven
Beach Haven’s special holiday beach badges, designed by Kalie Caravano, a fourth-grade student at Beach Haven Elementary School, are now on sale.
