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SandPaper
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    Pandemic Shuts Down LBI Free Thanksgiving Dinner

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    Artist, Free Spirit Emma Cotter Makes Her Mark

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    Ship Bottom Judge Orders Trial Over Dune Cutting


‘Unstoppable’ Rams Deliver One More Complete Team Effort to Win Section Final

By David Biggy | November 21, 2020

Artist, Free Spirit Emma Cotter Makes Her Mark

By Victoria Ford | November 21, 2020

Send Six-Pack Holders Packing; Bigger Wind Farms on LBI Horizon

By JAY MANN | November 20, 2020

As Band Show Goes on Despite Restrictions, Golden Rams Deliver

By DAVID BIGGY | November 19, 2020

COVID-19 Restrictions Cancel Annual Ship Bottom Christmas Parade

By Gina G. Scala | November 19, 2020

Windmills Off LBI Will Be More Visible Than Thought

By BOB STERN | November 19, 2020

Interfaith Health, Support Services Opens in Little Egg Harbor

By Pat Johnson | November 19, 2020

Southern Regional Boys Soccer Squad Secures First Division Title in 31 Years

By David Biggy | November 19, 2020

Surflight Celebrating Thanksgiving With Springsteen Tribute Concerts

By Rick Mellerup | November 19, 2020

Barnegat Schools Going to Five Days In-Person Learning

By Eric Englund | November 19, 2020

News

President Walter Jauch Resigns From Stafford Township Board of Education

By David Biggy | November 21, 2020

Retirement generally is supposed to be a stress-free time, or at least as stress-free as possible. But during the past couple of years as part of the Stafford Township Board of Education, Walter Jauch hasn’t been able to free himself of the stressors of being the board president, particularly during...

Drive-Thru COVID-19 Test Site at Ocean County College to Increase Hours

By Juliet Kaszas-Hoch | November 19, 2020

Citing an uptick in COVID-19 cases and growing interest in testing due to the approach of the holidays, Ocean County is increasing hours at the Ocean County College drive-thru site, which provides tests – by appointment only – for both symptomatic and asymptomatic county residents. During the week of Nov....

Pinelands Junior High Moving to Remote Instruction for Two Weeks Due to COVID

By Rick Mellerup | November 19, 2020

The Pinelands Regional School District closed its junior high school for face-to-face instruction for two weeks as of Wednesday, Nov. 18. “There have been two confirmed cases of COVID in the Junior High School within the past week,” Superintendent Melissa McCooley emailed the junior high school staff and families on...

COVID-19 Restrictions Cancel Annual Ship Bottom Christmas Parade

By Gina G. Scala | November 19, 2020

For the throngs of families and friends whose holiday traditions include attending the annual Ship Bottom Christmas Parade, 2020 will go down as the Grinch who stole Christmas.  “The borough is sad to report that considering Gov. Murphy’s latest restrictions, we must cancel the Christmas Parade,” borough officials said in a...

Interfaith Health, Support Services Opens in Little Egg Harbor

By Pat Johnson | November 19, 2020

Interfaith Health and Support Services of Southern Ocean County and the Ocean County Office of Senior Services have opened a satellite office in the Hackensack Meridian Health building at 279 Mathistown Rd. in Little Egg Harbor. Kathleen Cheeseman, director of Interfaith Health and Support, said the organization has been trying...

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  Daytime in LBI is fun in the sun and catching that beautiful golden tan. Everything is open, energy is high, and the traffic is running smoothly. Great. But once the sun goes down and the artificial lights come up, a different LBI emerges. Without the crowds and the commerce,...

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A&E

Artist, Free Spirit Emma Cotter Makes Her Mark

By Victoria Ford | November 21, 2020

Emma Cotter is a 20-year-old artist from Cedar Run with no particular agenda apart from making art that is accessible to everyone. In her approachable, minimalist style, she combines text and images to comment on the human condition. Whether by collage, drawing, or painting on...

As Band Show Goes on Despite Restrictions, Golden Rams Deliver

By DAVID BIGGY | November 19, 2020

Judging purely by the sight and sound, everything about the Southern Regional High School Golden Rams Marching Band’s halftime performance on a recent Friday night looked normal. Drum major Lucas Haberstroh kept time from atop his perch and directed with precision, even as he peered...

Surflight Celebrating Thanksgiving With Springsteen Tribute Concerts

By Rick Mellerup | November 19, 2020

Beach Haven’s Surflight Theatre is definitely celebrating Thanksgiving this fall despite a rapidly rising number of COVID-19 cases in New Jersey and Ocean County. The public is responding. Surflight will be hosting “Cookies & Cocoa with Santa” events at 1 p.m. on Nov. 27, 28...

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Sports

‘Unstoppable’ Rams Deliver One More Complete Team Effort to Win Section Final

Southern Field Hockey Squad Goes Undefeated

By David Biggy | November 21, 2020

On what was an unseasonably warm afternoon, the Southern Regional field hockey players on Nov. 21 enjoyed every moment passing around the wooden-based trophy with a golden bowl affixed to it. Some took small-group photos with it, even mocked kissing it, a la the Stanley...

Wrestling Takes a Hit as NJSIAA Releases New Winter Athletics Schedule

By David Biggy | November 19, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic again has caused a big shift in the operation of high school athletics throughout the state. After the fall sports season was pushed back a month by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association earlier this year, the high school sports governing...

Southern Regional Boys Soccer Squad Secures First Division Title in 31 Years

By David Biggy | November 19, 2020

For the 14 seniors on the Southern Regional boys soccer team, this season could have been a disaster, going the way of the spring season when it was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, the Nov. 14 clash with Toms River North marked the...

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Business News

Chamber, Freeholder Promote ‘Shop Small’ and Other Initiatives

By Maria Scandale | November 18, 2020

The Southern Ocean County Chamber of Commerce held an in-person meeting Nov. 11 at The Mainland Holiday Inn, introducing holiday marketing plans and featuring a...

Aerospace Engineer Invents Medical Walker Docking Station

Loveladies Garage a Hotbed of Solutions

By Maria Scandale | November 18, 2020

For a retired aerospace engineer, the wheels keep turning. As his sixth patented invention, Loveladies resident Robert Bard has come up with a platform device...

Pepenella to Address NJ Tourism Conference

By Maria Scandale | November 18, 2020

Learning the status of tourism from the New Jersey Tourism Industry Association’s annual Conference on Tourism will be a virtual experience Dec. 2 and 3,...

Opinion

Windmills Off LBI Will Be More Visible Than Thought

Commentary

By BOB STERN | November 19, 2020

The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities Strategic Plan for Offshore Wind, mentioned in the Oct. 28 SandPaper, did not address the one problem that is likely to have the greatest impact on Long Beach Island, namely the visual impact from shore of the new, larger wind turbines to be used. The developer will be...

How We Feel

Letters

. | November 18, 2020

To the Editor: I just wanted to take a moment to express my appreciation for the SpeakEasy column penned by Marsia Mason (“Who I Am and Am Not – And Why I Choose Hope,” 11/11). Ms. Mason’s op-ed was respectful, thoughtful, but most importantly, articulated exactly how many Democratic-leaning people feel in this moment. It...

Day America Died

Letters

. | November 18, 2020

To the Editor: On Nov. 3 the great county of America died. It was killed by its own people – those who would have government provide rather than themselves and those who seek peace through weakness rather than strength, those who cannot nor will not think for themselves. China, North Korea, Iran and Russia now...

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Send Six-Pack Holders Packing; Bigger Wind Farms on LBI Horizon


The sky is the limit … and the limiter. For the manyith week in a row, huge stripers are awaiting...

Fighting Back Too Little, Too Late?


In September 1959, the Jersey Shore came under attack from a mysterious disease. From Toms River south to Atlantic City,...

Important News Buried in Wild Year, More Tropic Topics and Famous Boards Visit LBI


  Hey, New Jersey, we did it! (Light smattering of applause, some faint cheering through masks.) Our governor just signed...

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A happily dining humpback whale luxuriates in the A happily dining humpback whale luxuriates in the fine foraging off LBI. The species, while endangered, is making a slow comeback (though its 10,000-mile annual migration leaves it vulnerable to boat strikes, fishing gear entanglement and illegal hunting). 📸 by Craig Hotter
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Friends, a classic rock band, practiced in an empt Friends, a classic rock band, practiced in an empty lot in Ship Bottom recently to prepare for the 41st annual Christmas Parade (slated for Saturday, Dec. 5th). The Borough of Ship Bottom announced yesterday, however, that the annual event would be cancelled due to Governor Murphy’s latest COVID-related restrictions. Keep an eye out for the full article in this week's upcoming issue! 📸 by @ryanmorrillphotography
Fall beauty on Long Beach Island. What did everyon Fall beauty on Long Beach Island. What did everyone do on this beautiful day? 📸 by @ryanmorrillphotography
At first there were some doubts that coyotes would At first there were some doubts that coyotes would even consider adopting the Island as home, sweet home. Then, reports of wild canine sightings raced across social media sites. Soon, photo evidence from trail cams and home protection systems sprang up, including the above North Beach close-up of a sizable, thickly-coated coyote, bordering on coywolf. 📸 Courtesy of Timothy Boyle
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What is a beachgoer's favorite supplement? Vitamin What is a beachgoer's favorite supplement? Vitamin Sea. 🌊This week's #tbt is a 1988 ad from this Manahawkin-based (and cleverly named) health store!
Long Beach Township hosted its annual Veterans Day Long Beach Township hosted its annual Veterans Day Observance to pay homage to local, LBI veterans. 🇺🇸

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A young man Monday in Beach Haven seems to evoke ' A young man Monday in Beach Haven seems to evoke 'The Karate Kid' pose while balancing on a piling. 📸 Jack Reynolds⠀
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