News
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•July 7, 2021
Barnegat Police Go Under the Microscope Monday
Barnegat Township Police Chief Chief Keith Germain has announced that on Monday, July 12, a team of assessors from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies will begin an…
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•July 5, 2021
Proposed Police Shooting Range Open for Discussion at Public Workshop July 29
The Stafford Township Police Department needs a shooting range; the question is where to put it. The public is invited to weigh in on the proposed location at a presentation/workshop to be held…
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•July 3, 2021
Surf City Business Owners: Decisions Impact Every Aspect of Community
A quick search for information about Long Beach Island brings a multitude of definitions from a beach lover’s paradise to barrier island and resort region along the Atlantic Ocean. What is missing…
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•July 2, 2021
Final Phase of Causeway Project Could Begin This Fall in Ship Bottom
Road work on Ninth Street in Ship Bottom intended to stop for the summer a few weeks ago was allowed to continue after officials learned it would be fully completed this month, allowing the state…
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•July 2, 2021
State Board of Public Utilities Awards Projects to Both Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind and Orsted
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities today awarded projects that will provide a combined 2,658 megawatts of offshore wind capacity to EDF/Shell’s Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, off Long Beach…
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•July 1, 2021
Beach Haven Westers Still Battling for Boat Slips
The mystery of the Jennifer Lane boat slips continues in Stafford Township as Gary and Diane Mazzacca of Beach Haven West persist in their mission to prove ownership – although, according to Township…
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•July 1, 2021
Car Stolen on LBI; One Alleged Thief Caught in Stafford
Early last Thursday morning, June 24, Stafford Township police had a multi-vehicle, multi-jurisdictional auto theft investigation on their hands.
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•July 1, 2021
ReClam the Bay Leads Field Trip to Rutgers Aquaculture Innovation Center
ReClam the Bay, a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the filter feeder shellfish to clean the waters of Barnegat Bay and to increase awareness of bay ecology through public education…
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•July 1, 2021
Sandy Island Burglary Under Investigation
The New Jersey State Police is seeking the public’s assistance identifying three men who earlier this month allegedly burglarized a hunting club located on a remote island in Barnegat Bay off Harvey…
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•July 1, 2021
Shore Avenue Traffic Pattern to Remain the Same
The Ship Bottom Borough Council unanimously denied an ordinance to limit access to and from Shore Avenue after nearly an hour of public comment June 22 that overwhelmingly opposed the proposed…
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•June 30, 2021
Driver in LEH Crash That Killed Teen Indicted on Aggravated Manslaughter, Vehicular Homicide
The driver who caused a two-car crash in Little Egg Harbor on Jan. 30 that killed Gianna Palmieri, 16, and seriously injured Kaitlyn Edwards, 18, has been indicted, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D.…
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•June 30, 2021
Dredging of Atlantis Lagoons Brings Questions
During the public hearing on the ordinance to bond $1,525,000 to dredge lagoons and inlet areas in the Atlantis waterfront section of Little Egg Harbor Township, a resident questioned the mayor and…
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•June 30, 2021
Community Outreach Carrying Past COVID Into Future
The Festival of the Sea at St. Francis Parish in Brant Beach is expanding into a more community-involved event than ever in this summer in which the impactful pandemic has greatly ebbed. An important…
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•June 30, 2021
Robotic-Assisted Surgery Is Coming to Southern Ocean Medical Center
Robotic-assisted surgery is coming to Southern Ocean Medical Center.
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•June 30, 2021
JCTA Went to Bat for COVID Workers
While the Joint Council of LBI Taxpayers Associations hopes the area is seeing the light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel and looking at a return-to-normal summer on the Island, its board of…
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•June 30, 2021
Stafford to Offer Workshops, Address Airbnb Complaint
At the June 22 meeting of the Stafford Township governing body, Mayor Greg Myhre announced a few upcoming free public workshops throughout town. Two are rain barrel workshops with Save Barnegat Bay…
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•June 30, 2021
New Jersey Releases Guidance for September School Openings
The state of New Jersey wants all of its schools opened for full-time in-person instruction during the 2021-22 school year, and it released a new set of guidelines on Monday to help make that happen.
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•June 30, 2021
Charter Fishing Group Lauded by Beach Haven Mayor
The Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association’s Junior Mates program kicked off its summer classes by receiving a proclamation from Mayor Colleen Lambert.
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•June 30, 2021
Reminder: Not All Island Towns’ Recycling Yards Accept the Same Items
Long Beach Township’s recycling center, at the municipality’s Department of Public Works yard in Beach Haven Crest, has seen an uptick recently in items the site does not accept – including wood…
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•June 30, 2021
First Sober Fourth of July? 10 Tips for Getting Through It
With its backyard barbecues, family reunions and fireworks displays, the 4th of July brings plenty of fun and relaxation. But for the newly sober, it can also bring stress – because Independence Day…
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•June 30, 2021
Signups Begin July 1 for St. Francis Back to School Project
Area kids in kindergarten through 12th grade are eligible for the St. Francis Community Center Human Concerns Department’s annual Back to School Project, which provides essential supplies for the…
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•June 30, 2021
BHTA Interviews Local Offshore Wind Energy Expert
As a follow-up to the Beach Haven Taxpayers Association’s recent offshore wind energy forum via Zoom, the group’s board last month interviewed Karen Conover, a borough resident knowledgeable in…
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•June 30, 2021
Appointments No Longer Required at St. Francis Food Pantry
An increasing number of people in the country are facing hunger. The St. Francis Human Concerns Food Pantry, at the St. Francis Community Center in Brant Beach, is a resource for those in the…
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•June 30, 2021
Germain Gets Leadership Role With Chief’s Association
Barnegat Township Police Chief Keith A. Germain has been elected fourth vice president of the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police.
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•June 30, 2021
Resilient LBI Project Gets Underway With Community Workshop
Members of the Long Beach Island community gathered at a workshop the evening of June 17 as part of Resilient LBI, an offshoot of the Resilient NJ initiative, designed “to solidify a shared vision…
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•June 30, 2021
Proposed Offshore Wind Projects Could Cost NJ Tourism Billions, Says LBI Rental Business Owner
Citing a University of North Carolina study, the founder of Vacation Rentals LBI said the economic impact of proposed offshore wind farms to be located off the coast of Long Beach Island would be in…
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•June 24, 2021
Army Corps to Dredge Barnegat Inlet This Summer
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is expected to dredge the Barnegat Inlet navigation channel this summer with the sand being placed in the nearshore area off Harvey Cedars in the vicinity of Hudson…
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•June 24, 2021
Surf City Strip Mall to Be Torn Down for Single-Family Homes
Maybe Ray Kinsella, Kevin Costner’s character in “Field of Dreams,” was right: If you build it, they will come. That certainly seems to be true of Surf City Square, a strip mall situated in the…
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•June 24, 2021
Impact of Offshore Wind on Commercial Fishing Industry Discussed
Four-decade scallop fisherman and Viking Village fleet owner Jim Gutowski laid out the scope in size of one offshore wind farm turbine as a backdrop to his talk on “The Impact of Offshore Wind Farms…
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•June 24, 2021
Last Spent Nuclear Fuel Assemblies Removed from Oyster Creek Reactor
The shuttered Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Lacey Township is on track to become the fastest decommissioning nuclear power plant in the nation now that the last multi-purpose canister of…
