Eco-Kayak Tours: Mobile Education

The Beachcomber
Alliance for a Living Ocean Hosts Program

Editor’s Note: Fifth in a series that journals our feature writer’s new experience with some of the Jersey Shore’s best choices in summer recreation. I recently ventured around Barnegat Bay on an eco-kayak tour, led by members of Alliance for a Living Ocean – a nonprofit organization based in Ship Bottom that is dedicated to maintaining a healthy coastal ecology […]

Two Different Types of Comedy This Week at Surflight Theatre

The Beachcomber
One-Woman Play; Two Guys Telling Jokes

Comedy covers many bases, as exemplified by the next two Catch a Rising Star shows at Beach Haven’s Surflight Theatre. Judy Gold will perform her one-woman show “The Judy Show: My Life as a Sitcom” on Monday, July 30 starting at 8 p.m. The show has been well-reviewed by the likes of the New York Times, suggesting that, as comedy […]

1972: Polarized on Politics, Land Use, Sharing the Road

Splashback

Forty years ago, Long Beach Island was politically polarized, and that cultural divide was reflected in the pages of The Beachcomber. After one of our columnists wrote in support of George McGovern for president, a letter writer reflected the chagrin felt by many of our readers: “I accepted The Beachcomber for what it purported to be: a weekly vacation publication […]