News
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•January 31, 2024
Stafford Township Police Department Promotes Smith to Sergeant
Stafford Township doesn’t yet have a new mayor, but there is a new sergeant in town.
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•January 31, 2024
Pallone, Environmentalists Want Shipping Speeding Rules Enforced
Is the sonar activity related to offshore wind farms leading to whale deaths? The debate rages on.
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•January 31, 2024
Weigh in on Proposed Wharton State Forest Visiting Vehicle Use Map
The state Department of Environmental Protection is accepting online comments from the public until March 9 for the proposed Wharton State Forest Visiting Vehicle Use Map, which designates legal…
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•January 31, 2024
Pinelands Regional Board of Ed Meeting Features Accomplishments and Explanations
The January meeting of the Pinelands Regional Board of Education was over two hours long, filled with good news, a rather thorough explanation of the district’s Use of Facilities policy, a musical…
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•January 31, 2024
Businesses Help Donate Barnegat High School Scholarships
More than a dozen businesses and organizations from cultural clubs to medical practices attended Barnegat Township School District’s recent annual Scholarship Donor Breakfast information session on…
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•January 31, 2024
Amato, Rumpf and Myhre Get Legislative Committee Assignments
Members of the 9th District legislative team, who represent all of Southern Ocean County in Trenton, have received their committee assignments for the 2024-25 legislative session.
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•January 27, 2024
Heavy Surf Brings Training Opportunity for Coast Guard
On a dry, sunny January morning, there are few individuals thinking about the thunderous winter storms, like the one earlier this month, that blow across Long Beach Island, bringing winds, tidal…
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•January 25, 2024
Accumulating Snow: What a Concept
With winter precipitation limited to a few dustings last year, snow shovels and snowplows were able to stay in hibernation. But that all changed last week, with fresh white stuff falling on Tuesday…
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•January 25, 2024
E.J. School Expansion Expected to Begin Next Year
“The Way Forward” is more than three words marking a subpage of the Long Beach Island Consolidated School District’s website. Those words represent the district’s future, and school officials have…
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•January 25, 2024
New Bayside Pastor Rose From the Depths of Despair
On New Year’s Eve, the Rev. Ken Carlson became the new lead pastor at Bayside Chapel in Barnegat Township. And to mark that occasion, the retiring lead pastor, the Rev. Dave Ridder, literally passed…
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•January 25, 2024
N.J.’s Bald Eagles Continued to Thrive in 2023
According to a report from Conserve Wildlife Foundation and N.J. Fish and Wildlife’s Endangered and Nongame Species Program, the state’s bald eagles logged a successful 2023. Larissa Smith, senior…
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•January 25, 2024
District Officials Refute Call for LBI School Condemnation Investigation
Long Beach Island Consolidated School District officials are pushing back against an effort by Ship Bottom’s governing body to designate the LBI Grade School property as an area in need of…
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•January 24, 2024
Van Drew Demands BPU Suspend Offshore Wind Approvals, Meetings
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities is expected to consider applications for the state’s third offshore wind solicitation at a special meeting this week, drawing the ire of Congressman Jeff Van…
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•January 24, 2024
Little Egg Harbor School Board Busy Searching for Superintendent
At the Jan. 16 meeting of the Little Egg Harbor Board of Education, Board President Christine S. Snyder laid out the timeline for the search for a new permanent superintendent of schools.
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•January 24, 2024
Tuckerton Accepting Community Development Grant Requests
Community Block Development Grant applications are now open to the public and can be picked up from the municipal building, Tuckerton Borough Clerk Jenny Gleghorn said, opening the Jan. 6 regular…
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•January 24, 2024
Holy Innocents’ Playground in the Works
This off-season, Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Church in Beach Haven will be hard at work to replace a playground in time for late spring or summer.
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•January 24, 2024
New Jersey Establishes Nonprofit Parks and Open Space Foundation
A foundation newly established within the N.J. Department of Environmental Protection will be incorporated as a nonprofit responsible for raising funds for the maintenance and development of state…
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•January 24, 2024
Imperiale Named Secretary of Mayors Group
At the regular monthly meeting of the Ocean County Mayors Association on Jan. 17, Harvey Cedars Mayor John Imperiale was nominated and appointed to serve on the organization’s executive committee as…
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•January 24, 2024
Harvey Cedars Unveils ‘Mission and Values’
Respect: Every employee shall show proper respect to other employees and to every resident, visitor, and business at all times.
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•January 24, 2024
New 9th District Delegation Pledges Commitment to Constituent Services
The 9th Legislative District has a new assemblage for 2024, with Sen. Carmen Amato Jr. and Assemblyman Greg Myhre replacing Sen. Christopher J. Connors and Assemblywoman DiAnne C. Gove alongside…
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•January 24, 2024
SandPaper Journalist Grateful for Community Support
The SandPaper is deeply saddened to announce that one of its own has recently been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer.
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•January 22, 2024
State Offers Tools to Help Protect Homebuyers from Increasing Flood Risks
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin, Environmental Protection Commissioner Shawn M. LaTourette, Community Affairs Acting Commissioner Jacquelyn A. Suárez and Consumer Affairs Acting…
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•January 19, 2024
Trio of Manahawkin Postal Workers Call It Quits After Many Decades of Service
Lenny Cona recalls his first day on the job with the U.S. Postal Service as if it were yesterday. In fact, it was a pretty good year for baseball fans in and around the Sheepshead Bay section of…
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•January 19, 2024
Mordecai Island Project Clears Major Hurdle
The Mordecai Land Trust in Beach Haven has officially announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recommended plan for the Mordecai Island Ecosystem Restoration Project has moved out of…
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•January 19, 2024
’Jedi Master’ Ytreboe Leaves Stafford District for New Challenge in Plumsted
While Han Solo was his childhood hero, Dave Ytreboe most identifies with Obi-wan Kenobi.
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•January 18, 2024
Land Use Board Grants Minor Subdivision Approval for Former Kubel’s Too Lot
Since the closure and demolition of Kubel’s Too a few years ago, the lot at 8200 Long Beach Blvd. in Brighton Beach has sat empty. A recent application approval by the Long Beach Township Land Use…
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•January 18, 2024
It’s Easy to Guess What the Top News Story of 2023 Was in Southern Ocean County
Ranking the past year’s top news stories in Southern Ocean County as reported in the pages of The SandPaper often feels like shampooing hair: lather, rinse, repeat. Some stories hang around for years…
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•January 18, 2024
Much Ado About Beach Boardwalks in Barnegat Light
The boardwalk pathways to the beach on multiple streets in Barnegat Light were the source of discord at the Jan. 10 borough council meeting, where residents expressed a desire to form a committee to…
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•January 18, 2024
Area Beaches Take a Battering From Recent Storm
Beaches up and down the Island took a beating Jan. 9 as a storm rolled through the Southern Ocean County area. Parts of Long Beach Boulevard from Ship Bottom to Beach Haven were impassable due to…
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•January 18, 2024
Suspect Arrested in Connection With Revolutionary Drive Fires
A Little Egg Harbor neighborhood was ablaze last week after three separate structures went up in flames in the middle of the night.
