News
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•August 20, 2025
OCC Campus Safety and Security Earns International Accreditation
Ocean County College’s Department of Campus Safety and Security recently achieved accreditation from the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators, the leading authority for…
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•August 20, 2025
Stafford Residents Now Can Pay Taxes Online
Various Stafford Township municipal service departments have been busy this summer, as Mayor Robert Henken pointed out in his report during the Aug. 12 council meeting.
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•August 20, 2025
Pinelands Jr. High’s Wildcat Shack Busy as 2025-26 School Year Approaches
Pinelands Regional Junior High School’s “Wildcat Shack” has announced two new initiatives.
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•August 20, 2025
Tuckerton Addresses Discolored Water in Borough
At the regular meeting of the Tuckerton Borough Council on Monday, Aug. 18, Borough Clerk Jenny Gleghorn addressed concerns about the ongoing discoloration of water in homes throughout the borough.…
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August 20, 2025
RU Comes to LBI
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•August 20, 2025
Harvey Cedars Resolution Recognizes Lifeguards
At its Monday, Aug. 18 meeting, the Harvey Cedars Board of Commissioners adopted a resolution to give full recognition of the work of open water lifeguards as first responders and emergency response…
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•August 20, 2025
Barnegat Light Plans Labor Day Weekend Fête to Recognize Retirees and Look Ahead
An end-of-summer farewell and hats-off-to-retirees party is being planned for Friday, Aug. 29 at the Barnegat Light Pavilion, with a live concert by The Danksters, members of which hail from the…
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•August 18, 2025
Harvey Cedars Taxpayers to Have Yearly Meeting
The Harvey Cedars Taxpayers Association holds its annual membership meeting on Saturday, Aug. 23 at the High Point Firehouse. Breakfast items catered by the Neptune Market and Birdy’s Café will be…
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•August 18, 2025
Recruiters Break Down Coast Guard Journey
For more than four decades, the enlisted men and women who have served at Coast Guard Station Barnegat Light have all called the Jersey Shore home at least once before, less than 90 miles away in…
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•August 17, 2025
Stafford Township Police Officers Rescue Rhodesian Ridgeback From Lagoon
Stafford Township Community Policing Officer Anthony Vincent didn’t even have his uniform on yet as his workday began Friday, Aug. 8.
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•August 14, 2025
Local Veteran to Undertake NYC SEAL Swim This Saturday
Seven years ago, a group of 33 gathered for the very first New York City SEAL Swim, a multi-sport event that begins at the Empty Sky Memorial in New Jersey’s Liberty State Park and ends at the World…
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•August 14, 2025
Hand’s Store to Bring Hotel Proposal Before LBT Land Use Board
The owners of Hand’s General and Hardware Supply, at 1310 Long Beach Blvd. in North Beach Haven near the border of Beach Haven, have submitted two applications to the Long Beach Township Land Use…
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•August 14, 2025
Ditched Boats Pose Hazard in Barnegat Bay
Under new federal funding aimed at removing abandoned and derelict vessels from the nation’s waterways, the state of Maine will have five such vessels removed as part of a $758,500 grant. There are…
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•August 14, 2025
On This Street, Sunset Observed With ‘Taps’
When sunset descends on East 29th Street in the Beach Haven Gardens section of Long Beach Township, you can hear the sound of a bugle playing “Taps.”
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•August 13, 2025
Feds Fund ‘Abandoned Boats’ Program Nationwide
More than 300 abandoned and derelict boats across six states and two unincorporated terrorities are earmarked for removal from local waterways under funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…
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•August 13, 2025
CDC Says Childhood Vaccination Rates Fell for Fifth Straight Year
There was a spirited and sometimes angry debate about the safety of COVID-19 vaccinations, and that debate has now spread to childhood immunizations.
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•August 13, 2025
High-Potency Marijuana Becoming a Problem
Today’s marijuana isn’t your daddy’s and mommy’s pot. That’s the message the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey is attempting to spread.
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•August 13, 2025
Little Egg Harbor Planning Board Postpones Housing Project Hearing Due to Occupancy Limit
Over 150 people showed up to a highly anticipated Little Egg Harbor Township Planning Board meeting on Aug. 7 – during which the board was set to hear an application from Lennar Homes for a proposed…
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•August 13, 2025
Church Going ‘Parrothead’ at Service
Jimmy Buffett and theology – now, that’s an interesting combination.
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•August 13, 2025
Methodist Churches Planning to Merge
Two United Methodist churches on the south end of Long Beach Island will soon be merging into one house of worship.
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•August 13, 2025
Women’s Club Hard at Work to Aid Local Causes
The Venue at Lighthouse Station Women’s Club, located on Lighthouse Drive in Barnegat Township, has been hard at work planning special events for the local community.
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•August 13, 2025
Island Kids’ Lemonade Stand Benefits Pediatric Cancer Summer Camp
Every summer for the past five years, siblings Luisa and Enzo Villafranco, with help from their family, have set up a lemonade stand near their LBI home on East Nevada Avenue in Haven Beach. The…
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•August 13, 2025
Beach Haven Bids for EOC Work Under Review
Five companies have submitted bids for various repairs and renovations to the Beach Haven Emergency Operations Center located in the old Coast Guard station.
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•August 13, 2025
Four File for Barnegat Board Seats
Two incumbents and two newcomers recently filed for three seats on the Barnegat Township Board of Education. All terms are for three years.
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•August 13, 2025
Beach Haven Finalizes Outdoor Dining Measure
At its July 14 meeting, the Beach Haven Borough Council introduced an ordinance governing outdoor dining. While the borough already had such an ordinance on the books, a new one had to be drawn up to…
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•August 13, 2025
Ocean County Animal Facilities Trying to Clear Shelters in August, Early September
The Ocean County Health Department has announced it once again is participating in the Clear the Shelters National Pet Adoption campaign.
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•August 13, 2025
An Environmental Message From LBI Garden Club
At the Hooked on Fishing event in Harvey Cedars, the Garden Club of LBI handed out approximately 60 pencil cases to participants with environmentally friendly messages for children.
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•August 13, 2025
Save LBI Asks Feds to Cancel Atlantic Shores Projects
A local grassroots organization is using an old real estate adage “location, location, location” to formally petition federal authorities to pull the plug in perpetuity on two planned wind farms off…
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•August 13, 2025
Pickleballers Give Boost to Compassion Café
On Sunday, Aug. 10, the Nelson Avenue park in Beach Haven was the scene of an LBI Pickleball Friends fundraiser benefiting the Compassion Café.
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•August 13, 2025
Young Anglers Learn the Ropes in Harvey Cedars
On Aug. 9, the borough of Harvey Cedars, in partnership with the Long Beach Island Fishing Club, hosted its 26th annual “Hooked on Fishing, Not on Drugs” event, an engaging, family-friendly day…
