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•April 1, 2020
Nonprofits Also Want Slice of COVID-19 Relief Pie
While part of the COVID-19 stimulus bill is aimed at giving relief to taxpayers and businesses, small nonprofit groups appear be getting left behind.
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•April 1, 2020
Peter Toth Makes Barnegat High School History on Way to West Point
It was a predicament Peter Toth never expected to be in. After applying to the U.S. Air Force Academy, the U.S. Naval Academy and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the Barnegat High School…
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•April 1, 2020
Fire Destroys Fantasy Island Ice Cream Parlor
The Ocean County fire marshal is investigating the cause of a Sunday night fire that severely damaged the ice cream parlor at Fantasy Island Amusement Park in Beach Haven.
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•April 1, 2020
Ring a Bell to Bring Synchronized Support
Uniting in ringing a bell at 7 p.m. every Wednesday, Ocean County people would be supporting each other during COVID-19. That is one woman’s plan. The call to action has become regionally viral…
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•March 31, 2020
COVID-19 Cases in Ocean County Exceed 5,000
As New Jersey continues to expand testing for the novel coronavirus, the number of confirmed cases is – as expected – increasing. On Friday, April 24, the state reported 99,989 positive cases and…
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•March 31, 2020
First Responders, Healthcare Workers and Public Tested as OCC COVID-19 Site Opens
With the peak of COVID-19 expected in the next week or so, more than a hundred county qualified residents were tested Monday for the novel coronavirus at the Ocean County College testing site.
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•March 30, 2020
LBI School Board Cancels April Meetings
The Long Beach Island Consolidated Board of Education has canceled its regular April meeting as well as a meeting of its strategic planning committee due to the continued social distancing directive…
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•March 30, 2020
LBI Sewing Brigade Organizes Face Mask-Making Efforts From Home
The LBI Sewing Brigade – online at facebook.com/lbisewingbrigade – is currently at work producing and dispersing masks for area healthcare workers, and the group welcomes any assistance from others…
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•March 28, 2020
AC Electric Warns: Scammers Using Pandemic to Gain Info
Atlantic City Electric warns customers there has been an increase in scam attempts with scammers using the COVID-19 pandemic health crisis to take advantage of energy customers throughout the U.S.…
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•March 28, 2020
Postal Offices Deliver Health and Safety Info for COVID-19
With reports of people worried about contracting COVID-19 through the mail and leaving letters and packages in their garages for three days, the U.S. Postal Service has attempted to relieve these…
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•March 28, 2020
Registration Open for COVID-19 Testing at OCC
With more than 300 applicants, registration for COVID-19 testing at Ocean County College in Toms River is closed for Monday, March 30 – the day the site opens – and county officials are taking…
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•March 26, 2020
Area Residents Stepping Up as Blood Supplies Are Falling Down
The American Red Cross routinely warns the public of blood shortages during certain points in the year, but the COVID-19 crisis is leading the organization to put out an urgent cry for donations.
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•March 26, 2020
COVID-19 Test Facility at OCC Opens March 30
The COVID-19 testing facility at Ocean County College will open for preregistered and other qualified residents at 9 a.m., Monday, March 30. Residents must have a doctor’s prescription for the test.
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•March 26, 2020
Two Women Dead; LBI Health Officials Link Spread of COVID-19 to Birthday Party
Two Long Beach Island women have died after attending a birthday party earlier this month in Barnegat Light where one of the organizers was exposed to COVID-19 while working on assignment in…
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•March 26, 2020
Some Local Towns Temporarily Prohibiting Short-Term Residential Rentals
Long Beach Township, Ship Bottom, Beach Haven, Barnegat Light and Stafford Township have all executed orders prohibiting short-term rentals (21 days or less) of residential properties in an effort to…
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•March 26, 2020
Ship Bottom Family Battles Coronavirus, Demands Testing
Little did reporter Alice Stockton-Rossini know when she began covering the coronovirus outbreak in New York that she would unwittingly bring the germs home to Ship Bottom and infect members of her…
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•March 26, 2020
Positive Cases of COVID-19 Increasing on Long Beach Island, Mainland
On March 18, the Long Beach Island Health Department announced the first positive case of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, on LBI. Joseph Lattanzi, a doctor at Southern Ocean Medical Center, in…
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•March 26, 2020
Officials Declare LBI Local Disaster Area Ahead of COVID-19 Peak
Long Beach Island has been proclaimed a local disaster area/emergency amid the COVID-19 pandemic as officials prepare for the peak period of the novel coronavirus, expected to come in the next few…
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•March 26, 2020
Barnegat Woman Making Masks for EMTS
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a severe shortage of protective masks, not just in Ocean County but all over the world.
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•March 26, 2020
Emergency Medical Supplies and Volunteer Shortage Part of Local COVID-19 Concerns
As the number of COVID-19 cases increases across New Jersey, two items are in short supply: N-95 surgical masks and, in some communities, qualified personnel to man the volunteer emergency response…
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•March 26, 2020
Southern, Stafford Teachers Make Adjustments During First Week of Remote Learning
Dan Dreher claims to have some “odd things” in his home, among them a greenscreen and backlight lamps for the purpose of doing video game streaming. Turns out those “odd” pieces of equipment helped…
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•March 25, 2020
Tuckerton Couple Open Little Free Library
Trish and Albert O’Neill have been renovating their home at 213 South Green St. this past year, and the very last touch was one of Trish’s dreams, a Little Free Library where residents can walk up…
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•March 25, 2020
Sheriff: Strict Requirements in Place for COVID-19 Test Facility at OCC
The planned COVID-19 testing site at Ocean County College has an expected capacity for testing 180 preregistered and otherwise qualified county residents a day.
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•March 25, 2020
Cash Toll Collections Suspended on Parkway, Turnpike
The New Jersey Turnpike Authority has suspended cash collections at all toll locations on the Garden State Parkway and the New Jersey Turnpike as a precaution against the spread of COVID-19. All…
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•March 25, 2020
Ocean County College to Remain Remote Through Spring Semester
Due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, Ocean County College has made the decision to continue online-only instruction and remote business practices through the spring 2020 semester, the college…
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•March 25, 2020
Bass River School Board Stalls Sending/Receiving Deal With Little Egg Harbor
To use a football analogy, it’s late in the fourth quarter for the Bass River Township School District. At its March 19 meeting, the district’s five board of education members heard both…
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•March 25, 2020
Pinelands Regional School District’s 2020-21 Preliminary Budget Up Online
COVID-19 may have completely upset the apple cart as far as day-to-day life in the United States and much of the world, but some things, such as school taxes, carry on as usual. The Pinelands…
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•March 25, 2020
Barbers, Hair Salons Faced Earliest Statewide Closures By Mandate
Barber Mario DiCesare of Mario’s Barber Shop on East Bay Avenue in Manahawkin got the news at 12:31 p.m. Thursday that Gov. Phil Murphy had ordered all in the personal care businesses in New Jersey…
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•March 25, 2020
Outdoor Church Outreach an Answer Amid Social Distancing
Drive-in church from the social distancing safety of listeners’ cars was the unique service in the face of coronavirus Sunday outside Grace Calvary Church in Ship Bottom.
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•March 25, 2020
Ocean County Delivers Nature and Education to Homes Via Facebook Live
The Ocean County Department of Parks and Recreation hosted its first Facebook Live educational program, on box turtles, last week, and has the video posted on its page, facebook.com/OceanCountyParks…
