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October 21, 2020



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    Inseparable Twin Kittens Seek Fur-Ever Home

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    ‘Lost’ Sailor Headed to Maryland Beaches in Harvey Cedars Sunday Night

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    Never a Dull Meeting in Barnegat Light


Scores of Thousands of Ocean County Residents Have Already Voted

By Rick Mellerup | October 28, 2020

‘Witches Brew’ Leader Colleen McNally – Tarot Reader, Teacher, Visionary, Magician – Aims to Normalize the Paranormal

By Victoria Ford | October 28, 2020

LBI, SOMC Experience ‘Mild Uptick’ in COVID Cases as County Numbers Climb

By Juliet Kaszas-Hoch | October 27, 2020

Positive COVID-19 Cases Push Stafford District to Close Ocean Acres School

By David Biggy | October 26, 2020

Inseparable Twin Kittens Seek Fur-Ever Home

By Monique M. Demopoulos | October 26, 2020

John Meehan Awarded Highest Prize in Plein Air: Island Plus Exhibit

By Pat Johnson | October 25, 2020

Veterans Visit Beach Haven as Part of Retreat

By Eric Englund | October 24, 2020

LBI Health Department Promotes Free COVID Alert NJ App for Smartphones

By Juliet Kaszas-Hoch | October 23, 2020

Never a Dull Meeting in Barnegat Light

By Maria Scandale | October 22, 2020

Manahawkin Motor Vehicle Commission Out of Commission

By Staff | October 22, 2020

News

Scores of Thousands of Ocean County Residents Have Already Voted

Help for Voters With Issues Can Be Found at Southern Ocean County Resource Center

By Rick Mellerup | October 28, 2020

Ocean County Clerk Scott M. Colabella said an astounding 222,209 vote-by-mail ballots had already been received in Ocean County by early Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 27. And he added there was still a week for Ocean County residents to vote-by-mail. “I’m estimating we’ll receive 290,000 vote-by-mail ballots by Election Day.” He...

LBI, SOMC Experience ‘Mild Uptick’ in COVID Cases as County Numbers Climb

By Juliet Kaszas-Hoch | October 27, 2020

Long Beach Island has seen a slight increase in COVID-19 cases recently, “particularly within the last few weeks and several among the older population,” according to health officer Dan Krupinski of the LBI Health Department. “That is concerning as we all know outcomes from this virus on average: the older...

Marsh Gas Prompts Alert From Ship Bottom Police

By Gina G. Scala | October 26, 2020

The smell at the entrance to Long Beach Island that prompted an alert from Ship Bottom police, via the countywide Nixle system last week, is methane from the marsh. Methane is produced, in nature, by anaerobic bacterial decomposition of vegetable matter submerged in water. It is sometimes referred to as...

Positive COVID-19 Cases Push Stafford District to Close Ocean Acres School

By David Biggy | October 26, 2020

The Ocean Acres Elementary School has been increasingly affected by COVID-19 during the past 10 days and has been closed to in-person instruction this week, Stafford Township School District Superintendent George Chidiac on Monday, after another positive coronavirus case was reported during the morning of Oct. 26. “We had three...

Inseparable Twin Kittens Seek Fur-Ever Home

By Monique M. Demopoulos | October 26, 2020

Friends of Southern Ocean County Animal Shelter is seeking a home for two 5-month-old Bombay mix, short-haired kittens. These are no ordinary brothers, and therefore, they will require an extraordinary family. The kittens, Mason and Perry, were born around April 4 and have been fostered by Friends Vice President Mary...

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LBI NightlifeFree Access


  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

‘Witches Brew’ Leader Colleen McNally – Tarot Reader, Teacher, Visionary, Magician – Aims to Normalize the Paranormal

By Victoria Ford | October 28, 2020

The Witches Brew is a New Age community group created by Colleen McNally of Soul Magic Tarot, welcoming all who have an interest in learning about and working with the metaphysical realm. McNally originally started the group to find likeminded people. It began as a...

Tuckerton Red Men’s Thanksgiving Dinner Canceled By COVID

By Rick Mellerup | October 28, 2020

There will be no pre-Thanksgiving Day community dinner at Tuckerton’s Red Men Lodge in 2020. In a effort to tamp down the spread of COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning folks not to go over the river and through the woods...

Ocean County College Hosts WebEx Talks With Cybersecurity Experts

By Juliet Kaszas-Hoch | October 26, 2020

Ocean County College’s Cybersecurity Series continues with a remote presentation this Friday, Oct. 30, by Howard Israel, who has worked in the field of cybersecurity for 38 years – as a product engineer, strategist, consultant and virtual chief information security officer (CISO). The program will...

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Sports

Jankowski Comes Through Again as Barnegat Girls Oust Lacey

Sports Roundup

By David Biggy | October 28, 2020

With roughly three weeks left to the soccer season, every game for the seniors becomes a big one. Jill Jankowski apparently wants to make the most of her final weeks on the high school pitch. The Barnegat senior scored a pair of goals against Lacey...

Jetty Clam Jam Adds Another Year, New Friendships to Storied History

By JON COEN | October 28, 2020

Jetty ran its 14th Annual Clam Jam on Saturday. As any longtime participant or spectator will tell you, the day is all about community. But specifically, there’s an inherent enjoyment that comes from rooting for one of LBI’s many unsung surfers. The Clam Jam consists...

Turnovers Lead to Southern Regional’s First Loss of Season

Football Roundup

By David Biggy | October 28, 2020

It’s just a fact. Sometimes good football teams have rough games. Southern Regional had one on Oct. 23, when the Rams turned over the ball five times, including a pair of fumbles inside Toms River South’s 20-yard line, and ended up with their first loss...

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Business News

Over 30 Parties Interested in Buying Bankrupt Sea Oaks Golf Resort

By Pat Johnson | October 17, 2020

    Sea Oaks Golf Resort and Country Club in Little Egg Harbor Township has not been sold, according to spokesman Jon Whelan. “Presently, all...

Venue at Lighthouse Station Awarded by NJ Builders Assn.

Barnegat Leader
Barnegat Site Selected Community of the Year

By Maria Scandale | October 16, 2020

Lennar Corp.’s Venue at Lighthouse Station, an active adult community in Barnegat, has been named Community of the Year for an adult community by the...

Business/Condo Combo Coming Where Bisque Was

By Maria Scandale | October 14, 2020

Triton Partners Inc. plans a spring 2021 completion of a commercial/residential building that will replace the restaurant that was most recently the 120-seat Bisque at...

Opinion

Hardly Great

Letters

. | October 21, 2020

To the Editor: Four more years – oy vey! Who really wants four more years of this version of America? No, that’s not what I want. The Republicans and Trump have had four years to make America great again. Who can say with a straight face that we actually are “great” again? Rather, four more...

Who Will Pay?

Letters

. | October 21, 2020

To the Editor: It’s the political season with a vengeance, with all media receiving more than their fair share of opinions, theses and dissertations, all spiced with some degree of diatribe. Consider a submission on Gov. Murphy and the sad condition of the state budget (“State Budget Confronts Crisis With a Well-Balanced Approach,” 10/7). I...

Thinly Veiled Attack

Letters

. | October 21, 2020

To the Editor: How is it that the false claims proposed by the president of voter fraud by Democrats in the upcoming election, due to mail-in ballots, are a one-sided proposition? As I understand it, mail-in ballots are sent to all registered voters: Democrats, Republicans and independents. Why is it then that only the Democrats...

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Columns

Big News From the Meadowlands and Big Surf on the Way


  I very specifically recall getting press releases early in my journalism career about this massive undertaking in North Jersey,...

Worthy Word Tucked Away on Dusty Shelf; Eagle Numbers Take Flight Toward Former Greatness


  It’s been an obsession of mine to seek out obsolete words that have become mummified from lack of usage....

Caught in a Death Trap


It is said by some that any publicity is good publicity, but in August and September 1959, Ocean County was...

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Last weekend during the sixth annual LBI FLY Inter Last weekend during the sixth annual LBI FLY International Kite Festival, one kite in particular stood out among the rest... In a heartwarming and high-flying spectacle on the beach in Ship Bottom, Nick Aninsman of Bensalem, Pa., proposed to his girlfriend of five years, Karli Modaferri of New Hope, Pa., with a unique kite that read: Karli will you marry me? She said yes! 📸 by @ryanmorrillphotography
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