Letters
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March 25, 2015
Pinelands Politicking
There was a proposal before the Pinelands Commission to run a natural gas pipeline through our Pinelands to refit the B.L. England coal-fired plant in Beesley’s Point, Cape May County, to natural gas…
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March 25, 2015
Sleep Disturbed
If you live along the bay in Surf City, Ship Bottom, Beach Haven West or Mud City, your night-time sleep is not what it used to be before bridge construction began.
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March 18, 2015
Get the Meat Out
After a month of persistent and crippling snowstorms, I do look forward to spring weather, green grass and flowers in bloom.
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March 18, 2015
Courage, Commitment
To the Stafford Township Police Department, Fire Department, Emergency Medical Service, Red Cross and all other first responders…
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March 18, 2015
Let’s Play Ball
Senior softball players are looking forward for another great softball year at the Doc Cramer Sports Complex. So we are extending an invitation to all seniors ages 55 and over to join us and come…
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March 18, 2015
Lifesaving Procedure
We are fortunate to live in an age where a painless, routine procedure can save lives. March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and I urge our residents to talk to their doctors about a…
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March 18, 2015
Welcome Sight
In November I retired to a location in Pennsylvania after 22 years on LBI. Before that, I went to church in Tuckerton and always looked for the flags on the cranes next to the Causeway Bridge on…
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March 18, 2015
Erosion of Equity
Little Egg Harbor Township Administrator Garrett Loesch, responding to a question on the results of the township’s reassessment, stated that since the real estate market deflation in 2008 the…
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March 18, 2015
Bay Needs Help
I hope residents living in areas of the bay which ecologists have defined as sensitive to the health of the bay will take heed of their request to reduce the use of pesticides or ideally to…
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March 18, 2015
Capitol Hill Honor
I wanted to thank you for your story about my participation in the art contest at RareArtist.org (“After Brain Surgery Little Egg Teen Enters Art Contest,” 1/21). I had 13,715 votes for my “Therapy…
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March 18, 2015
Above and Beyond
Kudos and love to my neighbor Joe Mangino for traveling to Iowa to raise awareness for Sandy survivors, most of whom are still waiting to get back into their homes.
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March 12, 2015
Irish Ayes
Thank you for your splendid coverage of the Sixth Annual Irish Arts Festival. Your dynamic press alerted and attracted our largest crowd ever. We are grateful to the community at large for their…
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March 11, 2015
Keep Footlights Burning
Artistic services to our communityat Surflight Theatre have been suspended with the theater’s bankruptcy filing. We are about to lose a 65-year-old friend. If we do not stand up and defend this…
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March 11, 2015
Respect for Netanyahu
Can anyone seriously deny Benjamin Netanyahu’s talents as a speaker? One has to be honest to admit what a refreshing and heartwarming speech he made.
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March 11, 2015
Column Critique
With the embarrassing exceptions of splitting an infinitive (“learning how to properly complete a sentence”) and ending a sentence/phrase with a preposition (“if this crew whom I bore witness to”)…
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March 11, 2015
Shows Must Go On
The residents of Long Beach Island, all visitors and guests that enjoy the Island and all those actors who might have the opportunity to be on the stage of Surflight Theatre should be putting their…
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March 11, 2015
Virtual Weapon
Automatic weapons on LBI? No permit needed, no background check, you don’t even have to buy ammunition – it’s free! OK, gun enthusiasts, don’t get all excited here. I’m talking about a machine that…
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March 11, 2015
Pushing the Envelope
In reading Rick Mellerup’s preview of Bellarine Theatre Company’s upcoming production of “Songs for a New World,” I was dismayed by the slant he chose to take.
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March 11, 2015
Daylight Annoying Time
I don’t know about everyone else, but I find this whole business of moving the time backward and forward for Daylight Saving Time very annoying, not to mention the drudgery of resetting the time on…
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March 5, 2015
Active Auxiliary
The Ladies Auxiliary VFW is one of the nation’s oldest veterans’ service organizations. Our members are the relatives of those who served in overseas combat. We have 475,000 members representing all…
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March 4, 2015
Build Better Dunes
There seems to be some general misunderstanding about the two different types of dunes found on Long Beach Island.
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March 4, 2015
Never Forget
Some 70 years ago this month U.S. Marines, with support from the Navy and Army, defeated the Japanese defenders and captured the strategic Pacific island of Iwo Jima.
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March 4, 2015
High Court Questions
John Imperiale’s “It’s High Time for a Review of the Highest Court” (2/25), in referring to justice selection, states, “There must be a better way.” Why … and how? From my point of view it would seem…
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March 4, 2015
Diabolical Gun Control
In 2013, author, attorney and prominent Second Amendment scholar Stephen Halbrook released a book that documents with painstaking detail the most diabolical gun control effort of the 20th century.…
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March 4, 2015
Show Biz Know-how
Steve Steiner can save Surflight Theatre, even at this late date. He understands the Island and lives here and ran Surflight for years. He still runs area shows here and in other places. He knows the…
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February 25, 2015
Shine On, Surflight
Kudos to Ginnie Gottshall and her letter about the ailing Surflight “Summer” Theatre (“Surflight Solution,” 2/18).
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February 25, 2015
Whole Holiday Hog
Groundhog Day, eagerly awaited by all and nationally celebrated by the media, should be a national holiday.
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February 25, 2015
Evacuee’s Plight
I am writing to you with the sincere hope that someone can help me correct an injustice I’ve been unable to rectify on my own for the past year.
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February 25, 2015
‘Snow Angel’
The day after our last snowstorm my driveway on Long Beach Boulevard was clear for me to go out to my scheduled appointments. So at 11:30, after three snowplows had passed, I left. Returning at 3:30…
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February 25, 2015
Surflight Goes Out
On behalf of the Board of Trustees, I regret to advise our loyal patrons, donors and volunteers that due to continuing difficult financial circumstances, Surflight Theatre is forced to cease…