News
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•August 31, 2023
LBT Officials Develop New Rendering Showing More Turbine Visibility
Using a photograph of the Holgate skyline and beach as well as data from the Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind plan, a Maryland-based multimedia company created a three-dimensional model of what wind…
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•August 31, 2023
Recreational Boat Sinks After Coast Guard Rescues Mariners, Dog
A crew from Coast Guard Station Barnegat Light rescued four people and a dog moments before the 30-foot recreational vessel they were on capsized in bay waters near Forked River Aug. 27. No injuries…
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•August 31, 2023
Love and Lemonade for Lowe Family
The Lowe family of Little Egg Harbor has suffered a devastating turn of events this summer, beginning with Dan Lowe’s right cerebellum stroke on July 18.
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•August 30, 2023
Local Church Offers Back-to-School Backpacks, Blessings
St. Stephen’s, a vibrant Episcopal church in Waretown, takes helping others very seriously all year long. But as the new school year approaches, efforts shift to supporting local children with new…
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•August 30, 2023
Residents Turn Spotlight on ‘Bad Neighbor’ Sheltered Cove Marina
During Tuckerton borough’s Aug. 21 council meeting, a handful of Anchor Avenue residents spoke during public forum to express their agitation with Sheltered Cove Marina. Tony Kite presented council…
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•August 30, 2023
Dockside Café Owners Given Proclamation for Service to Community
On Aug.24, the Tuckerton Historical Society together with the Borough of Tuckerton presented Dockside Café and Marina owners Dan and Gina Stromberg with an award to thank them for their endless…
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•August 30, 2023
OCHD Visiting Red Men Lodge to Distribute Narcan and Train How to Use It
A representative from the Ocean County Health Department will be visiting Tuckerton’s Red Men Lodge at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 12.
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•August 30, 2023
Lemonade Stand Connects Community, Benefits Waves of Strength
Luisa and Enzo Villafranco had a busy day earlier this month as the siblings – ages 6 and 3, respectively – staffed their annual lemonade stand near their family’s home on East Nevada Avenue in Haven…
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•August 30, 2023
Local Petitioner Decries Bad Drivers on the GSP
Five days a week, Barnegat Township resident James Symbouras commutes to his job in Matawan, and it’s far from being a pleasure trip on the Garden State Parkway. In fact, he feels the 55-minute jaunt…
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•August 30, 2023
Beach Haven Launches Parks and Recreation Survey
From time to time in Beach Haven, the future uses of parks and recreation facilities surface in the borough as a topic of discussion.
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•August 30, 2023
State Accepting Nominations for Governor’s Environmental Excellence Awards
New Jersey honors environmental protection leaders in a variety of categories each year as part of the Governor’s Environmental Excellence Awards Program. For 2023 – the 24th installment of the…
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•August 30, 2023
Battista, McCaffrey Seek Beach Haven Council Seat
Beach Haven Councilman Michael Battista last week filed for reelection in a special election on Nov. 7.
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•August 30, 2023
Barnegat Police Say Be Sure to Drive Sober
Through Labor Day, Sept. 4, the Barnegat Township Police Department will be cracking down on drunken drivers as part of the “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign.
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•August 30, 2023
Barnegat Dedicating Unbuildable Lots to Open Space Program
The Ocean County Board of Commissioners recently accepted a donation of 87 acres of land in Barnegat Township to be preserved through the Ocean County Natural Lands Trust Fund.
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•August 30, 2023
Pinelands Regional Lands Over $1 Million Federal Grant
Two big announcements were made at the Aug. 28 meeting of the Pinelands Regional Board of Education.
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•August 30, 2023
Busy Off-Season Planned for Island Voices Project
In an update last week on Island Voices, an oral history project for LBI, the Long Beach Island Historical Association reported that interviews are underway and a spring launch is planned.
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•August 30, 2023
Ship Bottom to Consider Electric Bike Regulations
As the summer season on Long Beach Island begins its annual winding down, there is mounting concern in Ship Bottom over bicycle and pedestrian safety, despite there being no serious accidents…
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•August 29, 2023
Mock Boat Accident Helps First Responders Prepare for Real Thing
A 10-year-old boy suffered internal injuries after the boat he was a passenger in struck a sandbar just off Barnegat Light on Aug. 16, also injuring his parents and grandparents. Or so went the…
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•August 27, 2023
Fantasy Island to Host September Fireworks Shows
At an agenda meeting last week, the Beach Haven Borough Council approved a fireworks show for Fantasy Island Amusement Park on Saturday, Sept. 2.
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•August 25, 2023
Gliding Squadrons: The Story of New Jersey’s Increasing Brown Pelican Numbers
If you were on an LBI beach some 10 or 20 years ago, and saw out of the corner of your eye a large bird of prey fly straight down, essentially dive bombing off the beach, you were likely a bit…
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•August 24, 2023
Community Shares Memories, Bids Farewell to Iconic Surf Shop
Surfers have a custom called a paddle-out, as a way to say goodbye when someone has passed. It’s a subcultural tradition many decades old in which friends and family paddle out into the ocean, a…
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•August 24, 2023
Celebrity Wedding Draws Swarm of Swifties to Beach Haven
While celebrity sightings are not unusual during the summer on Long Beach Island, the phenomenon was taken to a whole new level with last weekend’s appearance of pop megastar Taylor Swift in Beach…
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•August 24, 2023
Offshore Wind Fight Headed to Next Legal Level
Two federal agencies and both wind energy companies with lease areas off the coast of the Jersey Shore want a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit looking to block offshore surveying in the New Jersey…
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•August 24, 2023
Alex’s Lemonade Stand Event Will Mark a Finale This Year
Matthew Stipicevic and Luke Pennisi were just 8 years old when they set up their Alex’s Lemonade Stand at the Surf City Fishery in Ship Bottom in 2014. They will be doing it again at the same…
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•August 23, 2023
Despite Many Critics, Little Egg Harbor School District Moving Ahead With a New Model for Sixth Grade
The Little Egg Harbor School District’s sixth-graders will have a classroom schedule in the 2023-24 school year that is quite different from that of the past.
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•August 23, 2023
With Several Projects Underway, Little Egg Harbor Continues Aim Toward Paving, Drainage, Recreation Improvements
During Little Egg Harbor’s Aug. 10 township committee meeting, a host of ordinances were introduced appropriating funds to a handful of projects to improve the township.
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•August 23, 2023
Next Round of ANCHOR Tax Relief Payments Is Automatic
The current filing season for New Jersey’s ANCHOR (Affordable Communities for Homeowners and Renters) property tax relief benefit is based on 2020 residency, income and age – but rather than take…
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•August 23, 2023
Conserve Wildlife Foundation Biologist Reflects on Year of Growth for Seabeach Amaranth
Once abundant in its native New Jersey, the small, prostrate seabeach amaranth (Amaranthus pumilus) disappeared from the state in 1913 – primarily due to habitat destruction – and was not seen in the…
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•August 23, 2023
Atlantic Shores Proposes Expansion of Offshore Wind Plans
Anyone taking the temperature of local support this summer for wind farms planned off the Long Beach Island coast would know it runs near frigid most days. Still, Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind…
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•August 23, 2023
State Offers 10-Day Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday
The start of the school year is just weeks away, and so begins the dash to stock up on the necessities: pencils, pens, notebooks, calculators, backpacks and more. Fortunately for those who haven’t…
