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SandPaper
July 21, 2021



Section 2
July 21, 2021


Popular Articles

  • 1

    Compassion Café’s National Coverage Prompts Surge in Support

  • 2

    Surflight Theatre, Cruisin’ Tikis LBI to Appear on ‘Good Morning America’

  • 3

    Tropical Storm Elsa Delivers Historic Swell; Do Certain Vacationers Need to Learn Some Respect?


One-Day, 200-Mile Bike Ride – Surf City to Barnegat Light, and Repeat – Raises Money for Cancer Research

By Juliet Kaszas-Hoch | July 22, 2021

NHL Rookie Brings Stanley Cup to LBI for Celebration

By Gina G. Scala | July 22, 2021

Volunteers Install Shell Bags Off Mordecai Island

By Eric Englund | July 22, 2021

Kolman, Rothstein Lead Way to Victory for Surf City Beach Patrol

By David Biggy | July 22, 2021

Atlantic Winds Offshore Wind Array Will Steer Clear of LBI for Now

By Pat Johnson | July 22, 2021

Recreational Boating Incidents Spiked as Public Sought Refuge From Pandemic

By Gina G. Scala | July 22, 2021

A Wonderful and Watery Goodbye; Realistic Hurricane Preparedness for Our Coast

By JON COEN | July 22, 2021

Constantine Maroulis and the Frequency

By Victoria Ford | July 22, 2021

‘Pirate Pictures’ Launched at Maritime Museum

By Eric Englund | July 22, 2021

New Type of Tree-Hugger Lands on Island; Eyes of Bay Scallops Launch a Lifestyle

By JAY MANN | July 22, 2021

News

One-Day, 200-Mile Bike Ride – Surf City to Barnegat Light, and Repeat – Raises Money for Cancer Research

By Juliet Kaszas-Hoch | July 22, 2021

At midnight on July 6, two days before his 71st birthday, Glenn Toner climbed onto his bike outside his Surf City home and pedaled north. For the next 17 hours and 20 minutes, he cycled back and forth between Surf City and Barnegat Light – stopping every 19 or so...

Emotions Run High as Surf City Square Dominates Council Meeting

By Gina G. Scala | July 22, 2021

The first in-person Surf City Borough Council meeting in more than a year was standing room only and spilled out of the meeting room into the hallway with emotions running high as officials and residents addressed plans to tear down Surf City Square for five single-family homes. The strip mall...

Volunteers Install Shell Bags Off Mordecai Island

By Eric Englund | July 22, 2021

Last weekend, volunteers with the Mordecai Land Trust and ReClam the Bay planted shell bags around the shoreline of Mordercai Island, off Beach Haven. “The shell bags will not only attenuate erosive wave forces on Mordecai’s shoreline, but they will form a living habitat of filter-feeding bivalves to remove excess...

Atlantic Winds Offshore Wind Array Will Steer Clear of LBI for Now

By Pat Johnson | July 22, 2021

Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind’s array of 111 turbines will be built in the southernmost portion of the company’s federal lease, 12 miles off Absecon Inlet, and probably will not be visible to Long Beach Island visitors during the summer tourist season. This was the upshot of a virtual open house...

Recreational Boating Incidents Spiked as Public Sought Refuge From Pandemic

By Gina G. Scala | July 22, 2021

The number of recreational boating accidents, injuries and deaths on the water across the country during the COVID-19 pandemic was significantly higher than in 2019, while there was a slight decline in the number of registered recreational vessels, according to a report released by the U.S. Coast Guard last month....

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Nightlife & Entertainment

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  Summer has begun on LBI, more music venues have opened and nightlife has become more abundant. Get out and experience our local watering holes to listen to your favorite tunes while supporting the local musicians. With the crowds and the commerce, the Island comes alive after dusk – it...

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A&E

NHL Rookie Brings Stanley Cup to LBI for Celebration

By Gina G. Scala | July 22, 2021

On July 7, the Tampa Bay Lightning became just the eighth team since 1926 to win as back-to-back Stanley Cup champions. Nine days later, on July 16, Hotel LBI in Ship Bottom became the first Island hotspot in recent memory to host the cup, the...

Constantine Maroulis and the Frequency

Section Two
On Tap

By Victoria Ford | July 22, 2021

HOME BASE: Wyckoff STYLE: Rock ’n’ roll FUN FACT: The actor-singer was the sixth-place finalist on season four of “American Idol,” and he was nominated for a Tony for his role in Broadway’s “Rock of Ages.” INSIDE TRACK: Until I’m Wanted, his new album of...

‘Pirate Pictures’ Launched at Maritime Museum

By Eric Englund | July 22, 2021

So you want to dress up like a pirate? You can do that at the latest attraction at the New Jersey Maritime Museum in Beach Haven. Nicole Whitcraft, niece of museum founder/president Deborah C. Whicraft, painted a “get your picture taken as a pirate” display, which...

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Sports

Kolman, Rothstein Lead Way to Victory for Surf City Beach Patrol

Long Beach Township Beach Patrol Women’s Invitational

By David Biggy | July 22, 2021

Perhaps for next year, the Long Beach Township Beach Patrol should consider renaming its Women’s Invitational Tournament the “Pepper and Julia Show.” After all, when they’re competing, it almost seems Surf City has a bulletproof vest attached to its collective self. “They’re always really positive...

Little Time Left to Register for Barnegat Light Ocean Mile Swim

By David Biggy | July 21, 2021

Every year, the Barnegat Light Ocean Mile Swim presents a challenge to first-timers and veterans alike. And with just about a week left before it begins, time is winding down to register for this year’s competition, hosted by the Barnegat Light Beach Patrol and slated...

Coquina Jam Returns to Brant Beach

Among Biggest Annual Surf Events in New Jersey

By Jon Coen | July 20, 2021

The 2020 Jetty Coquina Jam was strange. Masks on the beach was just the start. From the sanitizing of jerseys between heats to the strange layout of the sponsors, it was a surf contest like no one had ever seen, and one of the only...

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Business News

Vendor Village Part of Bayfront Festival Ending ChowderMonth

By Maria Scandale | July 21, 2021

ChowderMonth this year crests with a free Bayfront Festival on Oct. 2 and 3, topping off a previous month of self-guided tasting and voting at...

Christmas in July at the Terrace Aids a Sheriff’s Officer

By Maria Scandale | July 21, 2021

On the beach calendar, “the season” means summer, but at the Terrace Tavern, ’tis the season for Christmas in July on the 25th, for good...

Tom’s Tiki Boat Tours: Safest Spot in the Sea

Clammer Rescued in Barnegat Bay

By Monique M. Demopoulos | July 21, 2021

Six women were celebrating a 50th birthday in style aboard a tiki boat in Barnegat Bay recently when they heard cries of distress. A man...

Opinion

Sounding the Alarm About Bodysurfing Danger

SpeakEasy

By MICHAEL KANE | July 21, 2021

A few weeks ago, I had a visit from my old friend Nick, who was my college roommate. Nick and his family arrived here on Long Beach Island in the midst of a long road trip. We had lunch and began to catch up a bit, and then gathered towels and water bottles and headed...

Not a Terrible Price

Letters

. | July 21, 2021

To the Editor: There have been many different perspectives shared about the wind power projects off the New Jersey coast. I would like to echo John Hailperin’s comments (“Lost Tourism Claims – Hysteria, Not Fact,” 7/14) and add one more viewpoint to consider before making up your mind. For the past 100 years our country...

Supporting Details Lacking for Atlantic Shores Wind Project

Feedback

. | July 21, 2021

To the Editor: I have been reading with interest the articles on the planned Atlantic Shores offshore wind project, which plans to build 111 13.6-megawatt, 853-foot-tall wind turbines as close as 9½ miles off LBI and which will include red flashing light beacons. This project is by far the biggest and closest to the shore...

Weekly Artoon


Columns

A Wonderful and Watery Goodbye; Realistic Hurricane Preparedness for Our Coast


“Patrick’s passing has brought all of us great sadness. But take comfort, each of you here and all who knew...

New Type of Tree-Hugger Lands on Island; Eyes of Bay Scallops Launch a Lifestyle


THE ISLAND WELCOMES TREE-HUGGERS: For many moons, wildlife of a canid kind has been heavily discussed on LBI. Discussion has...

Bounty From the Francis Wreck


On May 8, 1897, the three-masted wooden clipper ship Francis was 111 days out from San Francisco, bound for New...

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Last night, Tampa Bay Lightning player Ross Colton Last night, Tampa Bay Lightning player Ross Colton brought the Stanley Cup to the Hotel LBI rooftop. Following an NHL tradition, Colton (and every player on the winning team) gets to spend a day with the championship trophy. 📸 by @ryanmorrillphotography
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After MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhl’s story on Bea After MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhl’s story on Beach Haven’s @compassioncafe_lbi reached TV and online audiences July 2nd, a viewer was inspired to anonymously donate $10,000 to the project. Then Mike Bloomberg saw it, and Bloomberg Philanthropies donated $25,000… 

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At Barnegat Inlet on Sunday, this fluke, though ni At Barnegat Inlet on Sunday, this fluke, though nice, pales in comparison to some ‘doormats’ hauled lately. 📸 Jack Reynolds
Can you believe this was a little over a week ago? Can you believe this was a little over a week ago? Lines of cars were backed up both ways on Route 72, Monday, July 5th following the busy holiday weekend on LBI. 📸 by @reynoldsphoto
Saved by the fence! 🐢 A female diamondback terr Saved by the fence! 🐢 A female diamondback terrapin looking for a nesting place found a barrier to her progress across Route 72 from Cedar Bonnet Island. Good thing! Causeway traffic would have been curtains for her and her progeny. 📸 by @ryanmorrillphotography
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