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•June 24, 2021
Pinelands Regional Food Director and His Team Stepped Up to the Plate During Pandemic
There’s a little bit of Herbert Hoover in Michael Simoncini.
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•June 24, 2021
Daina Dale Is Municipal Clerk of the Year
When Daina Dale attended the recent Municipal Clerks’ Association of New Jersey conference, she had no idea of the honor about to bestowed upon her. The Harvey Cedars borough clerk was named the…
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•June 23, 2021
Taxpayers Group Launches New Fundraiser to Benefit Surf City Fire, EMS
While the COVID-19 public health emergency has ended, its impact lingers: namely, fundraising efforts for local organizations that had to get creative to meet their financial needs in order to meet…
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•June 23, 2021
Public Meetings Mostly In-Person Post COVID Pandemic
The signs of a return to pre-pandemic normalcy are all around in the nearly mask-free shoppers and diners, but the return to business as usual can also be seen in how municipal and other boards are…
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•June 23, 2021
Pinelands Regional School Board Loses Two Members to Resignation
The Pinelands Regional School District Board of Education is short two members following its June 15 meeting.
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•June 23, 2021
Mirage Women Donate to Local Charities
The Mirage Women’s Club in Barnegat Township recently celebrated its annual Caring by Sharing evening and distributed more than $13,000 to local charities as well as awarding two scholarships to…
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•June 23, 2021
Beach Haven Goes Online to Auction Off Boat Slips
Beach Haven recently auctioned off one-year lease agreements for seven boat slips with a total value of nearly $8,000 through an online auctioning company.
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•June 23, 2021
Tuckerton Just Says No to Cannabis Businesses
Two members of the public including a woman from Lacey Township thanked the Tuckerton governing body at its June 21 meeting for passing legislation to ban cannabis establishments, distribution or…
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•June 23, 2021
NJDEP Online Toolkit Helps Towns Integrate Climate Resilience Into Land Use
A climate resilience “toolkit” just launched online by the state Department of Environmental Protection will help municipal and county governments protect their communities through sustainable land…
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•June 23, 2021
Pandemic Challenges Didn’t Stop LBI District Students from Successful Year
The official start of the summer didn’t arrive until Monday, but for LBI Consolidated School District students and staff it began a few days earlier with the last day of school and graduation for…
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•June 23, 2021
Appreciative Seniors Leave Southern Regional With a Normal Graduation Ceremony
On the first day of his senior year way back in September, Hank Gallacher walked through the unusually quieter halls of Southern Regional High School with a mask over his nose and mouth, not sure…
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•June 22, 2021
Why the Turtle Crossed the Road, and Needs Help
Eastern diamondback terrapins can smell sand. Their instinct is that strong when seeking a place to lay their eggs.
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•June 17, 2021
Coast Guard Suspends Search for Downed Plane Off LBI Pending Further Developments
Hours after receiving a call about a possible downed aircraft that reportedly crashed in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Long Beach Island midmorning Thursday, June 17, the U.S. Coast Guard…
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•June 17, 2021
Pandemic Response Success Result of LBI, Ocean County Partnerships
When the unofficial start of summer arrived last month, it dawned with a little bit of 2020 mixed with some remnants of 2019 and a lot of fingers crossed that COVID-19 numbers were on the decline for…
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•June 17, 2021
U.S. Coast Guard Performs Rescue at Tuna Tournament
The U.S. Coast Guard and a good Samaritan rescued six boaters after their boat began taking on water approximately 34 miles east of Atlantic City on Thursday June 10, during the inaugural Beach Haven…
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•June 16, 2021
Multi-Phase Study Focuses on Wind Farm Impact on Mid-Atlantic Bight
Some opponents of a proposed wind farm off the coast of Long Beach Island cite the continued lack of available data specific to the Mid-Atlantic Bight and its impact to the commercial and…
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•June 16, 2021
Little Egg Harbor Chief of Police, Township Clerk, Others Retiring
Little Egg Harbor Chief of Police Richard Buzby tendered his resignation to the township committee by letter dated June 7. saying, “It has been my great honor to serve this community over the last…
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•June 16, 2021
Taste@Home a Creative Success As Fundraiser
About $28,000 to support area food pantries is the net result of the Taste@Home dinner and auction held June 8 by the Hunger Foundation of Southern Ocean. This year’s version of the annual “Taste”…
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•June 16, 2021
Go Fund Me Launched for Barnegat Accident Victims
A Barnegat Township family left reeling from a recent fatal car accident has started up GoFundMe pages to help cover a variety of costs.
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•June 16, 2021
BH First Aid Squad Excused From Ordinance
An ordinance that originally put the borough of Beach Haven in charge of conducting background checks for prospective members of the town volunteer fire company and the first aid squad now has the…
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•June 16, 2021
Beach Haven Students Connect With ‘Ah-Nold’
Early this month, the Beach Haven Elementary School received a congratulatory phone call from Gov. Phil Murphy on the school being able to stay in-house for the whole year.
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•June 16, 2021
Youngsters Show Gains in Reading Levels
While this school year may not have been traditional, Barnegat Township School District’s youngest learners at the Cecil S. Collins School and the Lillian M. Dunfee School have shown tremendous…
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•June 16, 2021
Coalition Formed to Battle Atlantic Shores
Beach Haven resident Bob Stern has taken a keen interest in the Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind proposal to construct a wind farm off the coast of Long Beach Island and parts south to Atlantic City.…
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•June 16, 2021
Long Beach Township’s Beach Patrol Housing a Win-Win for Community, Lifeguards
Each summer, the Long Beach Township Beach Patrol oversees 12 noncontiguous miles of ocean beach – the most, by quite a bit, of any Long Beach Island municipality. That means hiring nearly 200…
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•June 16, 2021
Long Beach Township Marks Promotion of Eight Police Officers
The Long Beach Township Police Department proudly promoted a number of officers last week, marked with a ceremony held in the Brant Beach municipal complex the afternoon of June 7. During the event…
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•June 16, 2021
Barnegat Bay Partnership Creates ‘Jersey-Friendly’ Pollinator Garden at Ocean County College
A grant from the science-based nonprofit Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation funded the installation last month of a “Jersey-Friendly” pollinator garden on the Ocean County College campus in…
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•June 16, 2021
Ocean County College Expands Cybersecurity Program
The cybersecurity curriculum at Ocean County College now includes two partner courses for the fall 2021 semester, each designed to prepare students for valuable industry certifications.
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•June 16, 2021
Local Police Officers Take Part in 2021 Special Olympics Torch Run
Stafford Township, Long Beach Township, Barnegat Township and Ocean Township police officers come together on Friday…
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•June 16, 2021
Offshore Wind Farm Opponents Escalate Concerns to U.S. Department of Interior
Leveraging federal law permitting the suspension of a renewable energy lease, the Long Beach Island Coalition for Wind Without Impact on June 5 submitted a request to the secretary of the Department…
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•June 11, 2021
Adaptable and Hopeful, Officers Led Southern’s Class of 2021 Through Rocky School Year
With just days until graduation, it’s likely that most members of Southern Regional High School’s Class of 2021 will begin to reflect on what the past four years have been for them, the highs and…
