Opinion
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December 9, 2015
Issues of Concern
I was in attendance at the Long Beach Island Board of Education presentation on Dec. 2, dedicated to clarifying the board position regarding the sale of the LBI School property. As a board member and…
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December 9, 2015
Say Something
Could the San Bernardino attacks have been prevented if more people saw something and said something?
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December 9, 2015
Productive Meetings
I would like to thank the residents of LBI who came to the last two board of education meetings regarding our LBI Consolidated School District consolidation school plan. It was great to see all the…
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December 9, 2015
Stoop Stories
With regard to “The Stoop Revisited” letter (10/28), I, too, have many stoop memories from my childhood in the Bronx. Those were the days of person-to-person conversations, eye-to-eye contact and…
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December 7, 2015
Ill-Advised, Petulant
Your pie chart “Trump Supporters: Who Are They?!” (12/2) is as ill-advised and petulant as your cartoons, run during summer months, that insult tourists. It is also missing a key demographic: the…
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•December 2, 2015
There Goes the Neighborhood
As a young child, I felt sad as the tide or an enthusiastic toddler demolished a sand castle that stood at the edge of the ocean. Today’s regret doesn’t begin to describe the feeling that sweeps over…
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•December 2, 2015
Why You Should Care About Inversion
This is a story about corporate citizenship and our tax codes. Warning: Reading this could make your head hurt. Writing it is, I admit it, no fun, either. Few things are more mind-numbing than a…
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December 2, 2015
Postal Disservice
08008 is a very interesting number that has many Long Beach Island residents confused, most second property owners confounded and the poor renters thoroughly in the dark. It is the postal ZIP code of…
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December 2, 2015
Careful Cutting
Is cutting a police department in Little Egg Harbor, especially in these times, an effective way to cut costs?
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December 2, 2015
Position Explained
The Long Beach Island Board of Education will present the most current consolidation plan at a public meeting on Dec. 2. This may be the culmination of a process that began in 2011.
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November 25, 2015
Eye-Opening Film
Living on an island, we are closer to the water than most people. The Beach Haven Library showed a most informative (and scary) film, “Bag It, on Monday, Nov. 9.
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•November 25, 2015
Talking Turkey … and a Raccoon Named Rebecca
Thanksgiving Day is not called “turkey day” for nothing. Since the Pilgrims’ and Wampanoag Indians’ first 1621 Thanksgiving celebration, turkey has been featured as a main course. Legend has it that…
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•November 25, 2015
Thanksgiving Misgivings
As fall rolled into November, I started thinking about Thanksgiving. Even an amateur athlete understands the need to prepare for upcoming events. Thanksgiving is no exception. For a start, I began…
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•November 25, 2015
Confessions of a Christmas Music Lover
I voluntarily chose to put on the Christmas music channel last week while getting ready for work. Yes, you read that right – I chose to listen to Christmas music a week before Thanksgiving.
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November 25, 2015
Help Less Fortunate
The Secular Franciscan Order of St. Francis Parish has been collecting toiletries and cold weather accessories for homeless women in NYC for over 30 years. The agency partner is the Dwelling Place…
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November 25, 2015
Personal Opinion
In June 2013, I submitted a letter to The SandPaper. The letter was signed by me, Allyn Kain. The letter I submitted to the newspaper did not identify me as a member of the Long Beach Island Board of…
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November 25, 2015
Charitable Uncle
Thank you to Uncle Will’s Grill in Beach Haven for holding the successful “Flavor Unleashed” fundraiser to benefit the Friends of Southern Ocean County Animal Shelter. The dining room was filled with…
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November 25, 2015
Ill-Conceived Plan
It’s time to go back to school on Dec. 2. Meanwhile, you can also call your Long Beach Island Board of Education member and askwhat his or her position is on the closing of the LBI Grade School. You…
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November 23, 2015
Skip the Turkey
While President Obama is pardoning two turkeys for Thanksgiving, every one of us can exercise that same presidential power by choosing a nonviolent Thanksgiving observance that spares a turkey’s life.
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November 18, 2015
LEH Mandate
Thank you to the voters in Little Egg Harbor Township. You have given me a mandate, and I will work hard toward achieving transparency andbringing Little Egg back to the kind of communityeveryone…
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•November 18, 2015
Questioning Faith in Evolution
As a part-time teacher, I occasionally get a chance to explain a “Fact or Opinion” lesson to elementary school children. The idea, of course, is to help them distinguish one from the other.
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November 18, 2015
If You Have to Ask
There was a point in my life when my three children were all at home and I felt like a very competent mother and housewife. One of my neighbors called me one day and asked me how to make mashed…
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November 18, 2015
Nailing Greenheads
I realize that it is late (well past the summer season), but I wanted to share this comment I received from one of our good friends regarding the greenhead flies that occupy LBI from time to time…
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November 18, 2015
Seniors Count
“I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant” is a quotation by Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto regarding the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. This quote could be applied to the Republican party of Little…
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November 18, 2015
Carson’s Lies
The SandPaper has published Eddie Schwind’s latest predictably hyperbolic screed. (This paper publishes his missives with such frequency that it should consider adding his name to the masthead.) This…
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•November 18, 2015
Her Answer Was Blowin’ in the Wind
My brother Christopher Ciccarelli wanted to propose to his girlfriend, Michele Malone, at their favorite place: LBI. Little did he know that it was going to be a good story to tell (at least we think…
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November 16, 2015
Shore Challenges
Coastal flooding has become a fact of life for many residents of the Jersey Shore, and not just during extreme weather events. From nor’easters to seasonal high tides, property owners are seeing an…
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November 11, 2015
Thank You, Vets
Veterans Day takes on a special significance this year as we mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II and the 40th anniversary of the conclusion of the Vietnam War.
