Opinion
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June 19, 2024
Rare Fire Rainbow Over Beach Haven
I thought I would share this photo I took from Stratford Avenue in Beach Haven last Wednesday, June 12 at 11:20 a.m. I never have seen anything like this. Once I got home I Googled it to find out…
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June 19, 2024
Shoddy Work
I was thoroughly excited to go kayaking for the first time in my many trips to Ship Bottom over the years, using the beautiful launching area by the dock on Central Ave. Imagine my consternation in…
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•June 16, 2024
Life With Father on a Cuban Sugar Cane Plantation
My family is from Cuba, where they owned a sugar cane plantation that later was taken over by Castro as part of his new communist regime. In 1959, at 19 years old and having just finished high…
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June 12, 2024
Significance of D-Day
As I reflected on the 80th anniversary of D-Day, I was profoundly moved by the immense courage and sacrifices made by the soldiers who landed on the beaches of Normandy, France in the face of great…
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June 12, 2024
Slow Going
Voting in Ship Bottom was an adventure last week, a rather frustrating one.
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•June 12, 2024
Message of a Robin Rescue: Thankfulness Then and Now
An abnormally large number of human-caused distractions have consumed most of our waking hours and attention during the past few months. College demonstrations, military initiatives, the Trump trial…
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June 12, 2024
Takes a Village
Thank you, Mayor Huelsenbeck, for being right on point about the LBI School in last week’s SandPaper (“Ship Bottom Mayor Addresses Borough Stance on LBI School”). Taxpayers needed to hear the facts.
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June 12, 2024
Morrison’s in 1960s
L J. Wallace Jr.’s article “Surviving ‘The Hole’ in the Middle of Summer” (5/22) brought back many memories of the years I worked at Morrison’s Restaurant in Beach Haven. Pete and Peg Morrison were…
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June 6, 2024
No. 1 Concern Is Offshore Wind Impact on Ocean
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection held a hearing at Central Regional High School May 28 to collect public feedback on permit applications for proposed landfall sites for cables…
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June 6, 2024
Better Safe Than …
Kudos to the Beach Haven Borough Council for adopting an ordinance to abolish teen night. With other towns experiencing unsafe behavior from crowds of rowdy and drunken teens, why should the Beach…
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June 6, 2024
Emergency Medical Services Need Essential Redesignation
I read with interest – and disappointment – the article “Murphy’s Proclamation Honors EMS Personnel Throughout New Jersey” in last week’s edition. While Gov. Murphy and Mark Dudeck, president of the…
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June 5, 2024
Alarming Lack of Info
As a long-term LBI resident who was impacted by the destruction caused by Superstorm Sandy, I am concerned about new predictions that the country will have an increase this year in more powerful…
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June 5, 2024
Carving His Role
Malcolm Robinson, a decoy carver from Little Egg Harbor who lives in the Sunrise Bay community, deserves congratulations after receiving an Ocean County Lifetime Achievement Award. He was nominated…
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•June 5, 2024
Overweight? Forgetful? Tired of TV Drug Commercials!?
I want to begin by saying I have no medical training whatsoever. The only thing I know about medicine is taking it when prescribed and applying Band Aids when needed.
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June 5, 2024
Shared Stories
Recently I had the privilege to listen to two amazing American stories. My soon to be 100-year-old Aunt Mary reluctantly moved from her house of over 30 years to assisted living recently. Aunt Mary…
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June 5, 2024
Wrong Impression
Regarding your May 23 article “Temporary Relief for Outdoor Dining Approved in Surf City,” I fear readers were left with the impression that earlier in the year the land use board denied the Surf…
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May 29, 2024
Culture Shock
A while back there was a movie called “Groundhog Day” where Bill Murray experiences the same day over and over. Memorial Day ushers in LBI’s groundhog year.
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May 29, 2024
Why Must LBI Be Wind’s Guinea Pig?
Memorial Day weekend has officially opened the summer season at our beloved Long Beach Island, so it seems an appropriate time to express some concerns about our future. Whether a longtime resident…
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May 29, 2024
Enough Is Enough
I have always thought of Beach Haven as a family-oriented town for people to visit, enjoy and feel safe. When I attended the council meeting and listened to council members and residents speak about…
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•May 29, 2024
Generation Gap Shrinks When Stephen Moves In
It was late August when our grandson innocently asked, “If I got a job down here next summer could I live here with you and Pop Pop?”
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May 29, 2024
Senior Thanks
Hail to the king and queen of the Stafford 2024 Senior Prom, Joe Murphy and Minnie Ciao. Both were selected by the recreation staff and are residents of Perry’s Lake. The prom was held at the…
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May 29, 2024
Invaluable Asset
In 2012 during Superstorm Sandy, Joe Valyo walked into the borough to volunteer to help. His background as a fire marshal and in emergency services soon became noticed.
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May 29, 2024
Much to Be Lost
Think of the words to the Pledge of Allegiance, then think of the mess our nation is in. Consider the following words in the pledge…
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May 29, 2024
Controversial Tenure
I feel the need to respond to William Fenimore’s “Time for Change” letter (5/22). As some may know, he is running for Ship Bottom Council. Mr. Fenimore seems to have misrepresented his role in the…
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•May 23, 2024
Surviving ‘The Hole’ in the Middle of Summer
It was six years since the Lucy Evelyn caught fire and burned. The Bee Gees’ songs were tops on the pop charts. Folks thronged to theaters to see “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” and “Laverne…
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May 22, 2024
Proactive Program
The Beach Haven Neighborhood Watch Program will start on June 7 and run through September.
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May 22, 2024
Ask the Experts
Why is nobody going to the experts in hurricane technology concerning the proposed wind farms 10 miles off the LBI shoreline?
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May 22, 2024
Special Delivery
Joe and Nancy Ferrante will count Sunday, April 7 in Sunrise Bay, Little Egg Harbor, as one of the most important in their lives. At 12:30 p.m., they received a call from the transplant team at NYU…
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May 22, 2024
Time for Change
My name is William (Bill) Fenimore and I am running in the primary for a position on the Ship Bottom Council. I decided to run for council because I believe it is time for a change and time for…
