The Fish Story
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•June 29, 2025
Having a Hot Time Works for Tourists, But Not for Bees
For some reason, I feel compelled to write about heat this week, possibly due to its being unseasonably torrid, hotter than a witch’s … wait, that doesn’t work, does it?
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•June 18, 2025
King for a Day: Why Not Give Royalty a Go?
There was a nod-worthy showing for Saturday’s “No Kings” rally in Ship Bottom.
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•June 11, 2025
Throwing a UV Beam in Hopes of Finding Hidden Luminosities
I’m planning some black ops. No awful intent, mind you. I’m simply going deeply nocturnal, seeking secretive glows within forests – and quarries. I’ll explain.
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•June 4, 2025
Someone’s at Fault: Sneaky Seismic Crack Looms Off the Coast
When a local speaks of the “The Big One” hitting LBI, our Island-centric minds default to a weather event of monumental, even 500-year, proportions. Sandy is now considered a 100-year storm; you do…
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•May 28, 2025
Taking Account of the Weekend It Was Up There With the Biggest
There’s not a ton of ways to accurately tabulate how many humans put themselves upon LBI during a holiday weekend, but I can confidently say this Memorial Day weekend saw a high-viz tonload of…
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•May 27, 2025
Summer’s Dog Days Invite Registering of American Favorites; Why Seedy Weddings Are Uncalled For
Memorial Day: a prime steppingstone toward summer. More importantly, it’s a time to remember those who gave everything so we’d be able to enjoy holiday weekends.
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•May 14, 2025
Talk of the Walk: Circle Traffic Flow Falling Into Place
Last weekend was as ideal as LBI and nature can offer. To greet the weatherly wonderfulness, I opted to travel to the mysterious north, speaking of Barnegat Light – beyond which one falls off the…
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•May 10, 2025
Merciless Gnats Arising: Hatch of No-See-Ums Will Bug Bayside Flukers
You likely heard a second arrest has been made in the Jones Road wildfire. It made all the national news broadcasts, with one station claiming the wildfire was still burning – as if N.J. allows…
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•May 1, 2025
That Wild and Wooly Wildfire Might Make the Top 10 List
The Jones Road wildfire was as flameful an inferno as our Pinelands have ever experienced. The Greenwood Forest flames were California grade.
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•April 23, 2025
Nightmare Before Easter: The Time Coconut Eggs Destroyed My Vacation
First, a sad but fond farewell to our rock star Pope Francis. Here’s hoping his grassroots holiness and dedication to equality carry over to his successor – announced when white smoke next arises…
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•April 16, 2025
Tog Bait of Choice: Sand Crabs Shining
Sand crabs are possibly the most iconic of all beach critters, after factoring in the childhood rite of passage gained by digging them for the first time – and all too often bucketing a bunch to take…
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•April 9, 2025
Tariff Trickledown Could Loom Large for Anglers, Diners
Spring is having one helluva time freeing itself from the cobwebs of winter.
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•April 3, 2025
Soothing Buzz of Mechanical Bees Droning Over Crops
When it comes to developing robotic bugs, the beautiful minds at MIT can sometimes come off as a bit batty, if not downright flitty.
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•March 26, 2025
How the Dark Web Might Unloose Ruin on State’s Tree Frogs
I recently did an informative delve-about within the Dark Web, which I’ll use to also cover the Deep Web.
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•March 19, 2025
The Oddest Airport Bust: A Bulge in Man’s Pants Leads to Concealed Pet
My mind remains boggled over news stories regarding surely one of the weirdest smuggling busts ever seen at any airport, anywhere. It played out at Newark Liberty International Airport, where…
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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 5, 2025
Crustacean Spirits: Making Green Crabs Fit for Connoisseurs
GREEN CRABS ON THE ROCKS: To help control New England’s invasion by European green crabs, the House of Tamworth distillery in New Hampshire is testing whiskey waters never before explored. Pubs…
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•February 27, 2025
Maybe a Warning: Bay Does a Limbo, Hits All-Time Low
Anyone remember the Limbo craze? How low can you go? It helped foster modern chiropractic medicine.
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•February 20, 2025
Lures as Geniuses: Intellectual Plugs Ready to Launch; Command of Executive Orders Is a Must
A shoutout to the wind for proving it’s always a prime player in our coastal weather game. Sunday evening saw local gusts over 70 mph. I took an unofficial 72 mph reading. By Monday, a solid showing…
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•February 18, 2025
And EO Times Begin: Donald Does the Gulf, Orders Americanizing
On the surface, those wouldn’t seem like fighting words … unless being aggressively bandied about by a White Housed world leader inclined to readily stir the international pot.
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•February 6, 2025
Dismissing the Drones Can’t Bring Full Closure
The midwinter thaw didn’t arrive a minute too soon for me and the lifelong thin skin I sport.
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•January 29, 2025
Cow Gallstone Cartels Find Gold Within Bile; Tons of Chemical Fallout From Turbines
To show what lengths I’ll go to for winter column fodder, I’ve turned to gallstones as both subject matter and a last gasp retirement plan. I speak not of human “stones,” made of bad cholesterol, but…
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•January 26, 2025
Obsolete Munitions Arise Within Wind Turbine Sands
Excuse me while I bemoan this deplorable stint of indooredness being forced upon me, compliments of the Arctic. Frostbite potential notwithstanding, I will likely venture out to do some heavily…
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•January 16, 2025
Drone Enigma Solved: They’re Just Not Real
Let’s give a warm Jersey welcome to the visiting polar vortices. That, of course, smacks of insincerity since there’s nothing warm about these frigid spin-off swirls as they uninvitingly drop down…
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•January 14, 2025
When Manahawkin Bay Ice Consumed a Model-A Ford
Somehow or other, it’s suddenly 2025. Must be global warming.
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•December 19, 2024
Drones Just Keep Showing, Uncle Sam Keeps Denying
I remain inextricably fascinated by the whole sky-high drone affair, which has shown brightly within social media, sparking a back and forth frenzy between those who have seen (and believe) and those…
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•December 12, 2024
The Skies Come Alive With Mystery Drones
I have to drone on from the get-go this week, based on a skyload of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) sightings seen across the state – a pinch worth spotted in our Southern Ocean County skies. I’m in…
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•December 5, 2024
In Search of Stress-Free Sashimi, the Japanese Getting Inventive
In my never-ending, worldwide hunt for the weirdest of column fodder, I can count on the Japanese to be fully foddersome. In fact, those fine Rising Sun folks recently reached a rare level of…
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•November 27, 2024
It’s All About Poli-Sci As Donald Time Sets In; Those Fat Cells Have Minds of Their Own
There’s a quiet rumble on the horizon, winter thunder of sorts, sensed more than heard. Its source is a genre of which I know squatola … big-time politics.
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•November 21, 2024
Fussing Over Nonevent That Can Eat a Car; Tog Poachers Try to Escape Getting Hooked
I got out of the weather business quite some time back, after years of helping the National Weather Service devise a rip current warning and advisory system for the Jersey Shore. However, this…
