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•August 8, 2024
Dog Safety Begins at Other End of Leash
Every year, there is a summer-long discussion about traffic safety and how motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists need to share the road on Long Beach Island. But with dogs accounting for more than…
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•August 7, 2024
Barnegat Rotary Looks Back at a Successful Year
As its fiscal year came to a close, the Barnegat Rotary Club announced it had donated $30,000 to local community causes, covering more than 20 entities.
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•August 7, 2024
Harvey Cedars Auto Is Bidding Adieu
Friday, Aug. 16, will mark the end of a long era in Harvey Cedars, as that will be the final curtain call for Harvey Cedars Auto.
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•August 7, 2024
Education Key to Reducing Garbage, Recycling Violations
In baseball, it’s one, two, three strikes and you’re out. When it comes to garbage and recycling violations in Ship Bottom, the sentiment is similar, but instead of being tossed out, borough Code…
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•August 7, 2024
Conserve Wildlife: Promising Results of Forest Bird Surveys at Joint Base
Throughout the year, Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey teams up with partners from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s state field office and Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst’s natural…
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•August 7, 2024
Southern Regional FCCLA Students Have Success at National Conference
Success at the national level of anything is a greatly positive thing, especially for high school students. For the Southern Regional Family, Career and Community Leaders of America program, it’s now…
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•August 7, 2024
Area 2024 School Board Candidates Announced
In the past few years school board elections have been hotly contested in many of the municipalities of Southern Ocean County.
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•August 7, 2024
Progress Made on Beach Haven Parks/Rec Projects
Earlier this year, the Beach Haven Parks and Recreation Committee presented recommendations to improve parks, beach and bay in the borough, based on a widely-distributed community survey. In strong…
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•August 2, 2024
Ship Bottom Greenlights LBI School Redevelopment Plan
Following more than an hour of public comment, the Ship Bottom Borough Council on July 23 unanimously approved a site-specific redevelopment plan for the LBI Grade School property. In doing so, it…
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•August 1, 2024
Citizens Police Academy Registration in Barnegat
The Barnegat Township Police Department is signing up participants for its Citizens Police Academy, a 10-week interactive program that begins on Tuesday, Sept. 11 at 6 p.m. at police headquarters…
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•August 1, 2024
Garden of Giving Fosters Love, Kindness and Cucumbers
Bursting with pigments and an air of generosity, Joe and Lorri D’Orsi’s house on Sixth Street in Ship Bottom sticks out like a green thumb.
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•August 1, 2024
New Jersey to Receive $72 Million for Climate Resilience Projects
The U.S. Department of Commerce and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have recommended $72.5 million for projects that will help facilitate resiliency to climate change and other…
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•August 1, 2024
100 Waves Challenge Wraps Up With Community Surf and Fun for Addiction Recovery
100 Waves. It takes a lot of effort to ride 100 waves. There are surfers on the Island this summer who have ridden 100 waves without even thinking about it. And there are others who have done it with…
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•August 1, 2024
Start Time, Location for Next LBI Beach Nourishment Unknown
Bids for the next periodic Long Beach Island beach replenishment project were received in May and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been working with the presumed contractor on requirements for…
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•July 31, 2024
Ship Bottom, Surf City Differ on Drone Technology
A new ordinance regulating drone use in Ship Bottom clips its wings after borough officials grew concerned the unmanned aircraft had become a sea gull-like nuisance to beachgoers, according to the…
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•July 31, 2024
Eagleswood Plans Town’s 150th Birthday Celebration, Playground Upgrades
Eagleswood Township is 150 years old this year. At its regular meeting of July 22, the governing body discussed plans for a birthday observance for later this year.
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•July 31, 2024
Stafford Police Make Arrests Following Separate Investigations
The Stafford Township Police Department on July 24 announced arrests in connection with two separate investigations, one involving drugs and the other involving iPhone thefts.
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•July 31, 2024
Ship Bottom Expects to Name New Council Member in August
By this time next month, the Ship Bottom Borough Council will have a new member in its ranks following the resignation of Councilman Peter Rossi earlier this month.
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•July 31, 2024
Little Egg Harbor Reviews School Bullying Issue
The major topic of conversation at the July meeting of the Little Egg Harbor Board of Education was bullying. That’s because Director of Personnel, Planning and Evaluation Jacqueline Truzzoline gave…
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•July 31, 2024
Local Inventor Solves a Sticky Situation
When wrapping presents or shipping a box, a common struggle and aggravation is finding the end of a roll of packing tape once it has been used.
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•July 31, 2024
Harvey Cedars Seeks Applicants for Patrol Officer
The Harvey Cedars Police Department is seeking applicants for the position of full-time patrol officer.
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•July 31, 2024
Beach Haven Council Election Petitions Available
Prospective candidates for the Beach Haven Borough Council election in November can pick up petitions in the borough clerk’s office, located in the municipal building on Bay Avenue.
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•July 31, 2024
Southern Ocean Medical Center Expanding Surgical Suite
Hackensack Meridian Health’s Southern Ocean Medical Center in Manahawkin continues to grow.
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•July 31, 2024
Transient Occupancy Tax Approved
At its July 25 agenda meeting, the Beach Haven Borough Council adopted an ordinance that would implement a 3% transient accommodation occupancy tax conveyed by any online marketplaces.
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•July 31, 2024
Little Egg Harbor Man Earns Top Sailor Award at Navy Boot Camp
When you launch a career it is nice to get off to a good start. Little Egg Harbor’s Justin Lagonegro has checked off that box.
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•July 31, 2024
State Currently Issuing Senior Freeze Checks
Senior Freeze checks are on their way to mailboxes throughout New Jersey. The state Department of the Treasury’s Division of Taxation began issuing the property tax reimbursements mid-July, with the…
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•July 31, 2024
Meals On Wheels Funding May Be Imperiled
Both houses of Congress will be in recess from Aug. 3 through Sept. 8. Then they’ll be out from Sept. 28 through Nov. 12.
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•July 30, 2024
LBI Board of Ed Reduces Purchase Price of School
The final bell at the Long Beach Island Grade School doesn’t toll until next June, but the future of the 4-acre property took two giant strides forward last week as Ship Bottom borough officials and…
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•July 29, 2024
Surf City Church Celebrates 90 Years of Faith, Community
A 90-year-old, black iron bell rang out 10 times, beckoning the community to the United Church of Surf City for a day decades in the making. Inside, locals laughed and reconnected as they filed into…
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•July 28, 2024
Longtime Bagpiper Talks ‘Special Dedication’ to Play ‘Unique Instrument’
Playing the bagpipes is not easy, musically or physically – which is why Geoffrey Knudson practices daily, in addition to attending band practice twice a week. The Manahawkin resident, 72, has played…
