Opinion
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August 17, 2016
Poetic Fiction
I’d like to thank Victoria Ford and The SandPaper for including my mystery Poetic Justice in her review “Beach Reads Trio With Local Tie-Ins to Finish Summer” (8/10). There is one understandable…
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August 17, 2016
Not a Cat Problem
I would like to address the problem outlined in “Cats Efforts Thwarted” (8/3). I have been involved in TNR (trap-neuter-return) since 2001. At that time, I became educated about feral cats because…
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August 17, 2016
Unite for Surflight
I have been coming to LBI for 22-plus years and have owned a home in Haven Beach since 1998. Over the past few years, I’ve been keeping a close eye on the efforts to save our beloved Surflight…
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August 17, 2016
Inaccessible Holgate
After enjoying the beach in Holgate for the entire season for more than 20 years, we are no longer able to do so. Our access to the beach is at Beck Avenue. We always had a significant but manageable…
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•August 17, 2016
Was the Pinnacle of Rock Reached All of 50 Years Ago This Month?
I was alone, I surfed the web, I didn’t know what I would find there. Another site, where maybe I could see another kind of mind there? Oooh -then I suddenly see something that makes me think I…
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August 17, 2016
LEH Dysfunction
As personally witnessed at the most recent Little Egg Harbor Township meetings, the finger pointing involving breached duties in serving our citizens is unacceptable. The failures by our elected…
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•August 17, 2016
Gold Star Politicking
This is for Bill Green (“Appalled by Trump – a Veteran’s View,” 8/10) and others who don’t like Donald Trump. Let me first say, I, too, am an old (disabled) veteran, having served six years in the…
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August 17, 2016
Overworked Street
What do the beach replenishment folks have against those of us on 15th Street in North Beach Haven?
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•August 17, 2016
Let’s Toast LBI and Happy Endings
The dog days of summer are here, with Labor Day right around the corner. That means fall and winter are getting closer, and all I have to say about that is “yuck.” I don’t mind the fall, but I’m…
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August 15, 2016
Follow Up
Following up on Pat Rears’ letter (“Never Trump,” 8/3), Mr. Trump was a client of my friends’ Brooklyn, N.Y., travel agency.
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August 15, 2016
Forgotten Rule
As an old guy in his eighties, I occasionally evaluate my thoughts and decisions because of the rumors that we older folks lose brain power as we age, and I find that on occasion that this is true.
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August 15, 2016
Need for Change
After much consideration I have filed a petition to run for the Long Beach Island Consolidated School Board of Education representing Barnegat Light. I have attended many recent board of ed meetings…
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August 15, 2016
Guard Gratitude
I am writing at this time as I want to express my gratitude for the professionalism and incredible skill and expertise of the lifeguards in Ship Bottom at both the 18th and 19th street beaches.
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August 11, 2016
Vote Out the Bums
Happy post-July 4 America. We are still rich, fat, lazy and stupid. I should stick my head in the sand and be happy with local issues, and The SandPaper. I’m just loving the people, visitors…
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August 11, 2016
He Brought the Ocean Home That Day!
This is about being at the beach with mygreat-grandson.
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August 11, 2016
Corrupt Candidate
Those who have chosen to ignore the voters, who showed up in record numbers and voted for Donald Trump, are now faced with a small group of useless, lifelong politicians who do not appear to grasp…
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•August 10, 2016
Taste Test: Do You Remember the Foods You Hated as a Kid?
I didn’t always love Swiss cheese. We were more of an American cheese family growing up. White, not yellow. Yellow reminded us too much of the government cheese we got for lunch at school before we…
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August 10, 2016
Way Out of Line
Your letter (“Lifeguard Liabilities,” 8/3) was way out of line. These “David Hasselhoff wannabes” are all trained lifeguards, not “Surf City kids” as referred to by you. I have been coming to LBI…
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August 10, 2016
Unscooped Poop
As I walked into Beach Haven this morning, I needed to keep my head down as there were six large doggie poop landmines. Several already had footprints from folks stepping in it. And this was only on…
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August 10, 2016
Girlie Weekend
Twoweekends agowas my annual Girlie Weekend on LBI. My poor husband, Bert, is not allowed to stay at our beach house that weekend.
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August 10, 2016
Same Old Story
Here we go again. The same two schools are opening up for the upcoming school year (Ethel Jacobsen in Surf City and LBI Grade School in Ship Bottom) with about 175 children, plus some “choice”…
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August 10, 2016
Good Going
As a Tuckerton resident far too familiar with the worsening bottleneck at the Route 9-Green Street intersection, I was pleased to read in Aug. 3’s “Currents” that the situation is being uncorked at…
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August 10, 2016
Cat Management
I recently read a letter from a concerned Mystic Island resident concerning the homeless cats on Osborn Island not being fed.
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August 10, 2016
Ticket Trap
I have been coming to LBI for the past 20 years and have always enjoyed the experience until last year. One night we went out to dinner and I parked on the corner of Second Street and North Bay…
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August 10, 2016
Best Bites
The LBI Historical Association would like to announce that Crabby Paddy’s was the winner of Best Bite of the Night at our recent Porch Appetizer Party. It was a wonderful night, and we would like to…
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•August 10, 2016
Appalled By Trump – A Veteran’s View
Iam a Vietnam-era veteran and my political party is Independent and has been for over a decade. Since 1980 I have voted my conscience for Democrats, Republicans and Independents. My preferred…
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August 10, 2016
Young Love on LBI
Young love – wow, how exciting! I look at my girl and it instantly brings a smile to my face. I see her pulling up in the car, I give her that little nod and I know instantly where my heart is. The…
