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•April 17, 2025
Beach Haven School Students Learn Compassion
Over the winter, the Beach Haven School launched the Compassion Kids Club, a new initiative designed to encourage students to cultivate kindness, empathy and compassion for others.
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•April 17, 2025
Community Art to Champion Historic Preservation in Barnegat Light
Barnegat Light’s Wildflowers boutique and gallery owner Cricket Luker, advocate for the arts and animal rights, has a new idea for a community art project that would celebrate local historic…
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•April 16, 2025
Barnegat School Employees Terminated Following Student Mistreatment Allegations
Five Barnegat Township School District employees have been fired and a department head was reassigned in the wake of recent allegations that an 8-year-old nonverbal autistic girl was taped to a chair…
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•April 16, 2025
Beach Haven Borough Budget at $16.2 Million
At its April 14 regular meeting, the Beach Haven Borough Council introduced a municipal budget of $16,208,149, approximately $772,000 more than last year’s spending plan.
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•April 16, 2025
As Budget Hearing Looms, Stafford School District Adds $1M
Prior to this year’s work on the 2025-26 school year budgets, the New Jersey Department of Education wasn’t too kind to the Stafford Township School District for the past seven years. In total, the…
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•April 16, 2025
Little Egg Harbor Residents Raise Concerns About School Budget
Little Egg Harbor Township residents expressed concerns about the impact of the school board’s proposed 2025-26 budget at the township committee meeting on April 10.
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•April 16, 2025
New Officer Joins Barnegat Police Department
On April 1. the Barnegat Township Police Department welcomed its newest officer, Ptl. Stephen Adams. He was officially sworn in by Mayor Alfonso Cirulli as friends, family and fellow officers watched.
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•April 16, 2025
Over 250 Pinelands Regional Seniors Attend Senior Interview Day
One of the first things a graduating high school student needs to do after earning a diploma is to prepare for job or internship interviews. The students of Pinelands Regional High School will have a…
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•April 16, 2025
Ship Bottom Fire Co. Offers Tips for Calling 911
While recognizing the invaluable contributions of emergency dispatchers during National Public Safety Telecommunications Week, the Ship Bottom Volunteer Fire Co. also acknowledged it can be stressful…
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•April 16, 2025
Archives Reveal Barnegat-Bat Masterson Connection
Throughout its history, Barnegat Township has been associated with seafarers and baymen, but gunslingers of the American Old West, not so much. However, there is a connection, and surprisingly, part…
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•April 16, 2025
Fay Is Beach Haven’s New Police Captain
Lisa Fay made Beach Haven history Monday when she was sworn into the position of police captain, the highest ranking ever for a female officer in the department.
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•April 16, 2025
Coast Guard, Salvage Company Rescue Overdue Clammer
A crew from Coast Guard Station Barnegat Light was among local law enforcement and a commercial salvage crew that rescued a 72-year-old man from a federal aids to navigation structure in the vicinity…
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•April 16, 2025
GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Plugs Nuclear Power at Ship Bottom Campaign Stop
Electric, by definition, is power generation or charged excitement. Both uses of the word were on display April 10, sparking a discussion about the state of New Jersey’s energy future.
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•April 14, 2025
LBI Residents Give Voice to Hands Off Movement
Against the backdrop of a misty Saturday in April and with a national stand against President Donald J. Trump and Elon Musk taking place across the country, more than 1,500 participants found their…
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•April 13, 2025
Ship Bottom to Highlight Its History All Year
From commemorative beach badges and lamppost signs to moving the borough council’s May meeting to the firehouse, Ship Bottom is going all out to celebrate its 100th year as Long Beach Island’s…
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•April 12, 2025
Stafford Township to Challenge State’s Affordable Housing Determination
For decades, the state has legally wielded the authority to set standards with regard to affordable housing within each municipality. Since the New Jersey Supreme Court decision in 1975, Stafford…
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•April 12, 2025
Griffin, Woodring Promoted to New Ranks Within Stafford Police Department
Russell Griffin apparently doesn’t mind immersing himself in thankless jobs, at least to some degree.
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•April 11, 2025
Practice Environmental Stewardship as a Barnegat Bay Volunteer Master Naturalist
A happy, healthy home begins with a happy, healthy community – which stems from a healthy local environment. Learn about, and become a steward for, our local environment as a Barnegat Bay Volunteer…
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•April 10, 2025
Gray Seal Pup Rescued in North Beach ‘Doing Well’
On March 26, the Marine Mammal Stranding Center received an urgent call about a gray seal pup entangled in fishing line in North Beach. Since his subsequent rescue by MMSC staff, the male seal has…
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•April 10, 2025
Decoy Carver Teaches Students at Tuckerton Elementary
Tuckerton Seaport offers a variety of educational programming, and is now bringing its efforts into the classroom with the launch of an in-school folk artist residency at Tuckerton Elementary School.…
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•April 10, 2025
NJ’s New Mapping Tool Bolsters Coastal Wetlands Resilience
Earlier this month the N.J. Department of Environmental Protection unveiled an informational website and mapping tool, at nj-tidal-wetland-monitoring-network-njdep.hub.arcgis.com, to help the public…
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•April 10, 2025
Save LBI Continues Push to Protect Right Whale
Months after first floating the idea of a safe migration corridor from Maine to Georgia for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, a local grassroots organization filed a 234-page…
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•April 10, 2025
Spotted at Popcorn Park Animal Refuge: Bobcat Kittens
In January, the Popcorn Park Animal Refuge welcomed two new residents: Ricochet and Rebound, a young brother-and-sister pair of bobcats. Born on July 4, 2024, they arrived at the Forked River…
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•April 9, 2025
Long Beach Township Swears in New Police Officers, Discusses Beach Umbrella Safety
Mayor Joseph Mancini led the swearing in for two new officers of the Long Beach Township Police Department at the start of the Monday, April 7 meeting of the board of commissioners in the…
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•April 9, 2025
Little Egg Harbor Taxpayers Could See a 32.6% Tax Increase for Elementary Schools
The Little Egg Harbor Board of Education proposed a new 2025-26 school year budget that would result in a 32.6% tax rate increase at its April 3 special meeting.
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•April 9, 2025
‘Fascinating’ Horseshoe Crabs Come Ashore in Spring
While New Jersey horseshoe crabs come ashore in May and June each year to lay eggs, they are also sometimes seen on beaches in great numbers in earlier spring – as they have been, mostly deceased, in…
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•April 9, 2025
Barnegat Signs Off on $35.7 Million Town Budget
At its April 1 meeting, the Barnegat Township Committee adopted a municipal budget of $35,708,658, approximately $966,000 higher than what was spent last year.
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•April 9, 2025
Barnegat Rent Leveling May Become History Again
One year after Barnegat Township brought back the rent leveling board, the panel that hears landlords’ requests for raising rents or handles disputes between tenant and landlord may be on the way out.
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•April 9, 2025
Beach Haven Aids in Arrest of Pennsylvania Man
An arrest last summer in Beach Haven has resulted in a Pennsylvania man being charged with numerous sex-related offenses.
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•April 9, 2025
Harvey Cedars and County Talk Boulevard Safety Issues
Harvey Cedars Mayor John Imperiale and Police Chief Robert Burnaford recently met with a contingency of Ocean County officials at the Ocean County Engineer’s office in Toms River. In attendance were…
