Opinion
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•March 10, 2021
Love, Food and Holy Water: A Mother’s Legacy
My mother passed away on Jan. 23, 2020. She lived a full, beautiful life and left us peacefully just before the world as we know it began to spiral and change forever.
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March 10, 2021
Promises Kept
A letter writer in the Feb. 24 SandPaper berates a column by Marsia Mason in the Feb. 3 SandPaper (“In Search of Unity, Complete This Questionnaire”).
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March 4, 2021
Unsightly Turbines
The conversation regarding wind turbines off Long Beach’s Island shores has hardly begun and should not begin until we, the business owners and homeowners, know the facts.
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March 3, 2021
Vaccine Heroes
I want to publicly thank you three amazing people who helped my husband and other seniors get a COVID vaccine appointment. I won’t mention your names; you know who you are! You dedicated your own…
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•March 3, 2021
Natural Breezes, ‘Progress’ and Unintended Consequences
As a long-time resident of LBI, and someone who has spent the last 62 summers on the Island, I would like to share some of the “progress” our Island has made. And as a mechanical engineer who has…
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March 3, 2021
‘Tough’ Love
On behalf of the Tough Cookies and Low Cut Connie, thanks so much for shining a light on our Valentine card drive to Southern Ocean Medical Center, and featuring this joint effort with your community…
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•March 3, 2021
Wondrous Winter Walks in the Woods
I’m checking my gear before heading outdoors. Sorting essential items into different pockets that will allow easy access as needed. Car keys and ID, check. Cellphone and snack bar, check. Lip balm…
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March 3, 2021
Valiant Warriors
During these extraordinary times, there are extraordinary people stepping up to the plate. They are warriors fighting to save our lives without regard to their own personal safety and that of their…
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March 3, 2021
Weight Disparities
I live on Los Angeles Drive, where the Little Egg Harbor Township Committee passed ordinances allowing a heavier industrial boat truck to be parked and services of the truck to be sold out of the…
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March 3, 2021
Grave Considerations
Responding to Val Henken’s ire with the COVID-19 vaccine distribution (One Word Describes Efforts to Get a Vaccine – Mishegas,” 2/24), I would like to add these grave considerations beyond the red…
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March 3, 2021
Exercise in Frustration
Like many seniors, my wife and I log on to the internet each day multiple times to drugstores, hospitals and health center sites in attempts to secure a time slot to receive the COVID vaccine. This…
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•February 25, 2021
One Word Describes Efforts to Get a Vaccine – Mishegas
Signing up for a COVID-19 vaccination that you are eligible for should be relatively easy, right? Wrong! At least not if you live in Ocean County, N.J. What is this process like? I’m going to share…
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•February 24, 2021
Fifty Years of Fun and Friendship With Margaret
Fifty years of anything is a long time. Fifty years with our friend Margaret was total joy.
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February 24, 2021
Sad Evasion
In her SpeakEasy column (“In Search of Unity, Complete This Questionnaire,” 2/3), Marsia Mason attempts a humorous slant on the idea of unifying the country. Ms. Mason should know that in the wake of…
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February 24, 2021
Key Decisions
I want to begin my letter with a full disclosure – while I have been a summer resident for almost a decade, I have only lived here on Long Beach Island on full-time basis for the past year. That…
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February 24, 2021
Unused Stations
On Tuesday, Feb. 9, we went for our COVID shots. The room was three-quarters empty. I counted 18 nurses stations and only four were being used for the entire half hour we were there.
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February 24, 2021
Scam Defense
This is a note on scams (“Scams Exploit Quarantine, Thrived in 2020,” 2/17). If these messages are not personal, then you should ignore and delete them. We get phone calls and emails that do not…
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February 24, 2021
Repurpose LBI School
Since the board of education voted on closing the LBI Grade School building and moving all students to the E.J. building, there is a lot to think about on what to do with this building. The…
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February 24, 2021
Revaluation Query
Recently the value of my property in Long Beach Township was revaluated, with a result that the new assessment rose 26%. Since this revaluation is used to determine property tax, my question to…
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February 18, 2021
Ball’s in Council’s Court
The building of nine new pickleball courts at the Nelson Avenue park continues to be debated at Beach Haven council meetings. The six existing courts are unsafe, and more courts are needed to support…
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•February 18, 2021
Can Sad Saga of LBI School Still Have a Happy Ending?
As a former member of the LBI Board of Education, I can shed some light on events surrounding the attempts to sell the LBI Grade School.
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February 17, 2021
Remember Plastic?
What will we think of plastic 50 years from now? It will certainly depend on decisions we make now because once it is made, plastic does not go away. Will single-use plastic still be the norm? Will…
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February 17, 2021
Compelling Case
There is nothing worse than investing your tax dollars and then not seeing them properly used. I feel confident that the pickleball project in Beach Haven will be used.
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February 17, 2021
Vaccine Failure
In response to Mr. Giannantonio’s letter (“Go Figure,” 2/10), wherein he claims the man being impeached (“the man who gets important things done”) could have solved the vaccine supply issues, I quote…
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February 17, 2021
Tent Supporters
In explaining his caucus’ decision not to remove Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) from her committee positions in the House of Representatives, Senate Minority Leader Keven McCarthy…
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•February 17, 2021
From Manhattan Back to My Childhood Bedroom
When I graduated from college in 2016, I heard the same thing over and over: “The world is your oyster.” I had a shiny, new degree, limitless potential and the promise of exciting adventures ahead. I…
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February 17, 2021
Fighting for Vaccines
What are Barnegat leaders doing to get the vaccine to Barnegat? The committee and I are working nearly daily to make the vaccine more accessible to Barnegat residents.
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February 11, 2021
Work Appreciated
The Little Egg Harbor Society of Friends would like to thank the leaders and members of Little Egg Harbor Sea Scout Ship 117 for their generous donation of time and labor recently when they spent a…
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February 11, 2021
LBI School Board Action Circumvents Will of the People
The LBI Board of Education action to ignore the will of the majority in approving the sale of the LBI Grade School and the expansion of the E.J. School, going around the expressed desire of the…
