News
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•February 4, 2021
Route 9 Work for New Electric Poles Means Detour From Milepost 60 South
For the past week, motorists traveling south on Route 9 from about mile post 60 have had to detour to Stage Road all the way to Bass River Township. The reason is Atlantic City Electric is in the…
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•February 4, 2021
Barnegat Board of Ed Appoints K-8 Student Assistance Counselor
It was 34 years ago last fall when Michele Cucinotta began her education career as a teacher at the Cecil Collins School in Barnegat Township. But as the years went on, Cucinotta found that perhaps…
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•February 4, 2021
Ship Bottom Mayor: Position on Sale of LBI School Unchanged
While the LBI Consolidated Board of Education prepares to sell the LBI Grade School in Ship Bottom, borough officials there said their position on keeping a two-school system for the district remains…
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•February 4, 2021
Crash on Radio Road Results in Aggravated Assault by Auto Charge
Michael Pillarella, 26, of Manahawkin was arrested Feb. 1 and charged with two counts of aggravated assault and two counts of assault by auto relative to a crash in Little Egg Harbor Township that…
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•February 3, 2021
Ocean County College Freezing Tuition and Fees for 2022
Tuition and fees for Ocean County College will not increase next year, making the institution the first community college in New Jersey to announce such a decision. Tuition will remain at $175 per…
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•February 3, 2021
NJ Senate Republicans Call Attention to Nursing Home Deaths
On Jan. 26, the 15 members of the N.J. Senate Republican caucus again called, in an open letter, for Senate President Sweeney to form a bipartisan investigative committee with subpoena power to…
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•February 3, 2021
Tuckerton Fugitive Captured in Atlantic City
Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer has announced that Donald Rutter, 61, of Tuckerton, a fugitive from justice who was charged on Jan. 6 with the attempted murder of Thomas Jarvis, 55, of…
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•February 3, 2021
Tuckerton Seaport’s Year-End Review
The Tuckerton Seaport, the re-created maritime village on 40 acres along Tuckerton Creek in Tuckerton, has had its share of setbacks in the 20 years of its existence. In an e-blast letter to the…
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•February 3, 2021
Busy Tuckerton Police Receive Thanks
The Tuckerton police received two compliments during the Feb. 1 municipal meeting. Councilman Ron Peterson said the police handled a situation where a vagrant was breaking into homes in Tuckerton…
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•February 3, 2021
Guilty Plea in Vehicular Homicide Announced
Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer announced that on Jan. 27, Jeydon Lowe, 24, of Barnegat pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide before Superior Court Judge Linda G. Baxter.
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•February 3, 2021
Third Phase of Walters Project on Hold Until Water Tower, Park Issue Resolved
It’s unusual to see many Stafford Township residents flood the council chamber inside the municipal complex for a planning board meeting, and on Jan. 27 they, of course, had to be separated into two…
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•February 3, 2021
Hotel Owners Request DEP Hearing Over CAFRA Violations
The owners of Hotel LBI submitted an adjudicatory hearing request stemming from a $1.49 million fine for continued non-compliance of the Coastal Area Facilities Review Act at the site of the luxury…
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•February 3, 2021
Prosecutor’s Office Announces ‘First Step’ in Program for Substance Abusers
Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer has announced a new program to combat substance use disorder in Ocean County.
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•January 31, 2021
Love of LBI Drives ‘American Chopper’ Alum’s Interest in Building Island Business
Family and community. Those are the words the eventual new tenants of the old bagel shop on the northeast corner of 18th Street and the Boulevard in Ship Bottom talked about when they made an…
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•January 30, 2021
Longtime Surf City GOP Chair Makes Bid for County Commissioner Seat
After more than three decades of active involvement behind the political scene, Lisa Hodgson Henson is throwing her hat into the ring for the Ocean County Board of Commissioners seat being vacated…
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•January 29, 2021
McKenna Announces Bid for Ocean County Commission Seat
Former Stafford Township Council President Sharon McKenna will seek the Ocean County Commission seat now held by Gerry Little, who announced his retirement from the panel this year.
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•January 28, 2021
Fisherman’s Cottage Restoration in Home Stretch
Volunteers of the LBI Historical Association Museum in Beach Haven have made major progress this winter in rehabilitating the interior of the Fisherman’s Cottage, a pet project for the association…
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•January 28, 2021
Scojo’s Fire Under Investigation
Andrew Clark was the second person to arrive at the scene of an early morning fire that damaged the top floor of the building that houses Scojo’s Eatery in Surf City. A borough police officer was…
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•January 28, 2021
Depth of Knowledge: Fishing Data Counting Into Big Decisions
Commercial fishermen, whose livelihoods depend on knowing the sea, are being consulted by government on projects ranging from ocean wind farms to the habits of 250 million-year-old sturgeon. Facts…
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•January 28, 2021
Nominate Big Trees for Ocean County’s Official List
The Ocean County Department of Parks and Recreation, in partnership with the Ocean County Shade Tree Commission, is asking residents to nominate large trees for a Big Tree Registry, a compilation of…
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•January 27, 2021
Tuckerton Helps New Taxi Company
Kristen Elgamal came before the Tuckerton borough mayor and council to see if they would reexamine the ordinance on taxis so she could operate on Tuckerton streets.
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•January 27, 2021
9th District Opposes Driver’s Licenses for Undocumented Immigrants
State Sen. Christopher J. Connors, Assemblyman Brian E. Rumpf and Assemblywoman DiAnne C. Gove released a statement Jan. 21, urging Gov. Murphy to shelve efforts to provide undocumented immigrants…
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•January 27, 2021
Harvey Cedars Police in Child Safety Restraint Program
The Harvey Cedars Police Department is participating in a grant program with the county to stress the importance of proper child safety restraints in automobiles.
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•January 27, 2021
Ex-Ocean County GOP Boss George Gilmore Receives Full Presidential Pardon
Former Ocean County GOP boss George Gilmore, 71, who in April 2019 was convicted and in January 2020 sentenced to 366 days in prison for failing to pay payroll taxes and falsifying a loan…
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•January 27, 2021
Community Events for 2021 Are ‘Go’ in Eagleswood
The Eagleswood Township Recreation Commission intends to hold all of its regularly scheduled events in the year ahead, with the exception of the town’s annual birthday celebration in March – a corned…
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•January 27, 2021
Library System Announces Online Health Workshops, NY Times Access
The Ocean County Library is partnering with the Ocean County Office of Senior Services and Meals on Wheels in free, interactive virtual health management workshops for individuals ages 60 and older…
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•January 27, 2021
Barnegat Schools Return to Classroom Instruction
On Monday, the Barnegat Township School District returned to in-class instruction after going virtual for two weeks due to the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on staffing.
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•January 27, 2021
Hotel LBI Temp CO Extended Again as Possible Required Site Changes Linger
Just five days after the state Department of Environmental Protection issued a $1.49 million fine for continued non-compliance of the Coastal Area Facilities Review Act at the site of Hotel LBI in…
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•January 27, 2021
National Cybersecurity Competition Open to High School Students
High school students have until March 8 to solve cybersecurity challenges and qualify for the National Cybersecurity Scholarship Competition.
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•January 27, 2021
Barnegat First Aid Squad Sees Uptick in Calls
The Barnegat Township First Aid Squad tallied a record number of calls in 2020, according to newly installed President James Goldstein.
