Opinion
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November 10, 2022
Which Eyesore?
While approaching our Causeway recently, where we are treated to stunning views of marshes and the bay, a huge billboard appeared over the horizon. What was it but a savelbi.org billboard that…
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November 10, 2022
Keep It Up!
I have been attending the Harvey Cedars borough meetings and taxpayers association meetings for quite some time. I am impressed, yet not surprised, how one of my neighbors, Joe Gieger, as a private…
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November 10, 2022
Spooky Vibes
I enjoyed the ghost column by Beth Miller (“A-Hunting We Go for Ghosts on Long Beach Island,” 11/2). I’m sorry she didn’t visit the Beach Haven Historical Museum across the street from Surflight…
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•November 9, 2022
Congress Needs to Be Educated on Sane Energy
Having been in the middle of many debates on the practicality of a carbon tax and, beyond that, the efficacy of carbon capture technology, I believe that economist Paul Krugman got it right…
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November 9, 2022
Welcome View
The SandPaper has my admiration for publishing the high-profile commentary by Dan Fatton on Oct. 5, welcoming the proposed wind farm turbines 10 miles offshore. I’m sure you’ll get a garbage bag full…
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November 9, 2022
Confusion Reigns
When I attended the Oct. 18 Little Egg Harbor Board of Education meeting, I was awestruck and incensed to observe the chaos and confusion interjected into this public proceeding by the Cooper…
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November 9, 2022
Appropriate Reaction
In response to the “Inhumane Action” (10/5), I cannot understand how our president and the entire Democratic Party could support bringing illegal aliens by the millions into our border cities. They…
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•November 9, 2022
A Stormy Life – From ’35 Nor’easter to Today
Those of us living on Long Beach Island, trying to hang onto our homes against threatening storms, are well aware of the horrific damage of Hurricane Ian in Florida and the 10th anniversary of…
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November 9, 2022
Changing Story
I read with chagrin the Oct. 5 opinion article titled: “Turbines: A Welcome Sight Off LBI Coast.” But it showed clearly the changes that are taking place on the issue of the visual blight being…
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•November 3, 2022
A-Hunting We Go for Ghosts on Long Beach Island
The world’s fascination with ghost hunting is not a recent phenomenon. Queen Elizabeth I, who began her reign on Jan. 15, 1559, a date chosen by her astrologer, John Dee, adhered to the teachings of…
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November 3, 2022
Update Stafford Charter
At Stafford Township Council meetings on Oct. 4 and Oct. 25, I made motions requesting that Stafford Township by ordinance place a question to Stafford residents to create and select the members of a…
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November 3, 2022
Toll Hike Hurts
While seniors are struggling to survive the lingering economic impacts of the pandemic, inflation and possible recession, tolls on the Garden State Parkway will increase for the third time in four…
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November 3, 2022
Anti-Wind Plan Vote
If there is a red wave in New Jersey next week, Democrats could find themselves under water. The deciding issues for state voters are the economy, crime and the planned wind farm off the coast.
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November 2, 2022
Frustrating Forum
I was able to attend the “Meet the Candidates” forum on Oct. 26 at Surflight Theatre in Beach Haven. I left the event concerned and frustrated. Here’s why.
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November 2, 2022
Smart Choices?
I read with dismay the letter written by Arlene and Fred Schragger (“Champion of Fairness,” 10/26).
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November 2, 2022
Majestic No More
I enjoyed the Oct. 26 Commentary by Neal Roberts (“Monarch Butterfly Experience Yielding Diminishing Returns”) very much – not only because it was informative, but my wife and I have a long love for…
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November 2, 2022
Calling It Out
I am the author of the letter “Racism on LBI” (10/12). I am disturbed by the letter “Doubt It Happened” (10/26). I can assure you that it happened. Just because we do not want racism and hate to…
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November 2, 2022
Fewer Signs
This is in response to Marianne Clemente’s “Rights Eroding” (10/26). Because a candidate posted 600 campaign signs in Barnegat in the 2021 election, residents asked the town to do something about…
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November 2, 2022
Demeaning Response
“I highly doubt this incident ever happened” (“Doubt It Happened,” 10/26). This was the response to the writers of two previous letters (“Egregious Behavior,” 10/19, and “Racism on LBI,” 10/12). On…
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November 2, 2022
Great PD
Once again, Harvey Cedars rises as a special place of community. Last Thursday, the fifth of six Harvey Cedars police forums took place to a standing room audience. Commissioner John Imperiale, who…
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October 27, 2022
Rest of the Story
The Oct. 19 edition had letters to the editor to which, as a candidate for Surf City Borough Council, and on behalf of the other Republican candidates in Column B on the Nov. 8 ballot, Jackie…
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•October 27, 2022
Monarch Butterfly Experience Yielding Diminishing Returns
I think it was in this season 11 years ago that I was amused to read the following account by SandPaper Managing Editor Jay Mann, writing in his column “The Fish Story.” He was traveling south on…
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October 27, 2022
Rights Eroding
Barnegat residents, after a long absence, I once again find myself putting “pen to paper.”
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•October 27, 2022
Happy Hour Group Helped With Hard Sandy Times
Ten years ago, just five days after I submitted “It’s 5 O’Clock in Beach Haven,” the story of the idyllic existence of the Happy Hour Group of Beach Haven, to a local publication, dire warnings about…
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October 27, 2022
Champion of Fairness
To most of us in New Jersey the following statistics are shocking: 299 Republican candidates for the House, Senate and important state offices are election deniers and 174 of them are running in safe…
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October 27, 2022
Tax Correction
I feel I need to make corrections to statements I made in my previous letter to the editor. I misspoke about the taxes in Surf City. I stated that we had the lowest taxes, which is not true.
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October 26, 2022
How Rad!
The political season is here. The radical left and the radical right are key words that I see on television and other media and through the mail. Events I see such as shootings, war and hurricanes…
