Barnegat Lighthouse Park Awesome at Twilight, Despite Pesky Flies

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'Full Moon Night Climbs' Scheduled

Editor’s Note: Second in a series that journals our feature writer’s new experience with some of the Jersey Shore’s best choices in summer recreation. When my dad and I drove into Barnegat Light on Friday evening, June 29, we were shocked to find the streets were practically empty. Only a few cars, bike riders and pedestrians could be seen navigating […]

Josephine: A Long Beach Island Love Story

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Editor’s Note: This excerpt is from “Josephine, from Washington Working Girl to Island Housewife: A Memoir, 1917 to 1959,” soon to be released by Down The Shore Publishing. Compiled by her daughter, renowned Long Beach Island author Margaret Thomas Buchholz, it is based on the diaries and letters of a professional woman ahead of her time. In 1918, Josephine left […]

‘The Fourth Tenor’ and Famous Cabbie to Perform at Surflight

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Michael Amante on Monday, Ben Bailey on Wednesday

For several years now it has been tempting to nickname Long Beach Island “The Italian Riviera.” When jogging or bicycling on the backstreets of LBI – excepting Memorial Day and July 4th-the green, white and red of the Italian tricolor is often more evident than the red, white and blue of Old Glory. Italian restaurants thrive while other ethnic restaurants […]

Fire Company Breakfast, Taxpayers’ Mini Golf Tournament Benefit Island Community 

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This Week in Surf City

Here are two July traditions that date well back into the last century, and are just as popular today. Among the important annual fundraisers of the Surf City Volunteer Fire and EMS is the summer pancake breakfast, scheduled Sunday, July 8, from 8 a.m. to noon at the firehouse, Seventh Street and the Boulevard. Cost is $8.50 for adults, $4.50 […]

Jewish Community Center Welcomes Bazaar to New Social Hall

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The vendors have been ready and waiting since March. Now all that remains is for the public to turn out to bring success to the bi-annual bazaar at the Jewish Community Center of Long Beach Island. The July and August merchant bazaars have been held for more than a quarter-century at 24th Street and the Boulevard in Spray Beach, with […]

Backyard Beekeeping on the Rise in New Jersey      


Penny Hughes zipped up her protective bee suit, filled up her smoker with dry pine needles and aimed a couple of puffs – that’s all -toward the mouth of one of her backyard bee hives. This was also the landing strip where about a hundred bees were now congregating.”Smoke calms the bees,” said Hughes. “It keeps their ‘alert pheromones’ from […]