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...
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...
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...
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...
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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