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•November 6, 2024
Van Drew Seeks Solutions in AC Electric Meeting
Congressman Jeff Van Drew (R-2nd District) fully expects a planned meeting with regional leaders of Atlantic City Electric to reveal a comprehensive look at how the company will relieve financial…
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•November 6, 2024
Beach Haven Bonds for Various Improvements
At a recent agenda meeting, the Beach Haven Borough Council introduced a $1.6 million bond ordinance for various improvements and projects.
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•November 6, 2024
Barnegat Art Students Adorn ‘Igloo’ Receptacles
The Barnegat High School Art Department has partnered with the Ocean County Department of Solid Waste Management to create vibrant murals on two recycling “Igloo” receptacles, which will be placed at…
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•November 6, 2024
Host of Charges Against Former Greenbriar Employee
Late last month, Ocean County First Assistant Prosecutor Michael T. Nolan Jr. announced that Alicia Campbell, 37, of Mays Landing was charged with tampering with public records or information…
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November 6, 2024
Lambert Is AAUW Woman of the Year
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•November 6, 2024
Barnegat Man Lands in Prison on Drug, Weapons Charges
Clifford Holland, 48, of Barnegat Township was recently sentenced in Ocean County Superior Court to three years in New Jersey State Prison in connection with his previously entered guilty plea to…
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•November 6, 2024
Veterans Display Grows at Waretown Library
A year ago, a small photo array in the Ocean County Library’s Waretown branch honored several former military members in recognition of Veterans Day. Today, thanks to community members who have added…
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•November 6, 2024
Long Beach Township Sails Through State’s Best Practices Checklist
Gov. Phil Murphy recently issued the New Jersey 2024 Best Practices Checklist to all municipalities in the state. The annual questionnaire sets standards for local governments to assess municipal…
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•November 6, 2024
Southern Regional Marching Band Captures Eighth Atlantic Coast Title
Luke Piszar clutched the huge plaque, as big as his torso, as he stepped off the bus and gazed at the crowd assembled near the exterior entrance to the band room at the northeast end of the 9/10…
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•November 6, 2024
Senate Passes 9th District Bill to Create Offense of Elderly Financial Exploitation
At the end of last month, the New Jersey Senate unanimously passed legislation S-1887, introduced by Sen. Carmen Amato (R-9th) and Sen. Troy Singleton (D-7th), that would create a new theft offense…
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•November 6, 2024
BoatUS Invites Public to Share Ideas for Abandoned Vessel Database
In an effort to clean up the nation’s coasts by ridding our shores of abandoned and derelict vessels, the nonprofit BoatUS Foundation for Boating Safety and Clean Water is creating a new national ADV…
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•November 6, 2024
Feds Expand Passive Acoustic Monitoring for Offshore Wind
The Regional Wildlife Science Collaborative for Offshore Wind and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are teaming up with the federal government to implement its passive acoustic…
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•November 6, 2024
Henken Cruises to Stafford Township Mayoral Victory to Lead Republican Council Sweep
Things will remain just about the same with the Stafford Township governing body come January, as the Republican ticket for mayor and council swept its way to victory for all the seats available on…
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•November 6, 2024
‘Hometown Team’ Slate Wins in Beach Haven
Incumbents Colleen Lambert and Michael McCaffrey and newcomer Lori Anderson, who ran as “Your Hometown Team,” won three seats on the Beach Haven Borough Council Tuesday night.
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•November 5, 2024
Southern Regional’s Golden Rams Show the Range, Depth of Our Dreams
Twisty loops. Crazy corkscrews. Wild dips and dives. Our dreams sometimes are like a roller coaster, often carrying us through a whole range of emotions, inner turmoil and ecstatic elation. And then…
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•November 4, 2024
‘Alternatives to Violence Project’ Sows Skills for Civility, Goodwill
Facilitating “a little taste” of the peace-fostering Alternatives to Violence Project on Sunday afternoon at the Barnegat Friends Meeting House were state coordinator Eleanor Novek and volunteer Chad…
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•November 3, 2024
Ship Bottom’s Remembrance Park Could Be Paved in 2025
Ship Bottom is slated to ask Ocean County to pave the parking area at Remembrance Park on Fourth Street sometime next year after a brief discussion about its 2025 Schedule C projects with the county…
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•November 1, 2024
Southern Regional French Club Hosts Exchange Students for First Time
Marin Levigoureux got to experience track and field as a spectator during this summer’s Paris Olympics, but more recently he’s experiencing a lot more, farther from his home city in France.
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•October 31, 2024
Forest Fire Service Urges Caution During Prolonged Dry Conditions
As extremely dry conditions persist throughout New Jersey, the state Department of Environmental Protection and the Forest Fire Service are urging the public to heed the Stage 3 fire restrictions put…
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•October 31, 2024
Ship Bottom Eyes Funding to Replace Problem Bulkhead
Ship Bottom officials are continuing their more than decade-old work to address flood mitigation from storms as well as nuisance flooding in some of the most problematic areas, which has already…
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•October 31, 2024
Tuckerton Borough Appoints Deputy Clerk
Tuckerton Borough Council appointed Savannah Boyer as deputy clerk and deputy registrar at its regular meeting on Oct. 21.
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•October 31, 2024
‘Sons’ Raise Funds for Cancer Foundation
On Oct. 4, the Ocean County Chapter of The Friendly Sons of the Shillelagh held a night of “Finally Friday Trivia” in support of David’s Dream and Believe Cancer Foundation, a nonprofit that provides…
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•October 31, 2024
Mancini Challenges NJDEP on Resiliency Rule Change
While Long Beach Township supports reasonable climate adaptation policies, it believes the N.J. Department of Environmental Protection should take a common-sense, measured approach to enacting…
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•October 30, 2024
EPA Awards $250 Million to Electrify I-95 Freight Corridor With Green Technology
A landmark grant award of nearly a quarter of a billion dollars from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to the Clean Corridor Coalition will fund electric vehicle charging infrastructure for…
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•October 30, 2024
Save LBI, Feds on Opposite Sides of NEPA Intent
A local grassroots organization condemned an arm of the federal government for spurning the National Environmental Policy Act as it completed its final review to assess potential offshore wind…
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•October 30, 2024
Five Candidates Running for Three Seats on Pinelands Regional Board of Education
There are only two contested local elections in Eagleswood, Little Egg Harbor and Tuckerton this fall. No Democrats decided to run in the governmental races in all three municipalities, and there are…
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•October 30, 2024
Southern Regional Student Council President Goes Bigger, Takes on State Executive Board Role
Transferring from the Barnegat School District to Southern Regional as a freshman was a harrowing experience for Cameron Minnick. He was a bit introverted, didn’t have any friends at the high school…
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•October 30, 2024
Little Egg Harbor Granted $4 Million for Stormwater Improvements
Little Egg Harbor Township’s Mystic Island residents, many of whom live at exactly sea level, will begin to see improvements in the way of stormwater infrastructure, thanks to a fourth round of…
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•October 30, 2024
Harvey Cedars Quickly Gets New Crosswalk
Local elected officials are pretty accustomed to the wheels of government turning slowly, which is why Harvey Cedars was pleasantly surprised when a crew from the Ocean County Engineering Department…
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•October 30, 2024
Barnegat Facility to House Animals While Manahawkin Shelter Is Renovated
The Southern Ocean County Animal Facility in Manahawkin will temporarily close for renovations beginning next Monday, Nov. 4, but all shelter services, including adoptions, will remain available at…
