Real Birders Know Their Wigeons From Warblers

SpeakEasy

Birdwatching is a popular pastime on Long Beach Island and its environs, but it doesn’t appeal to everyone. For one thing, it seems to involve rising at an ungodly hour. For another, it seems to require tramping for miles through muddy marshes. Those two points are somewhat offputting for many folks. However, if your social circle includes a veritable flock […]

U.S. Pockets Picked

Letters

To the Editor: Everyone has noticed how the price of gasoline has gone up and wondered why. Well, I’ll tell you. It seems our government has insisted the oil refineries update their smokestack emissions. This costs too much money so no new refineries have been built since 1970s and many have been shut down. The last was Hess, sometime this […]

 The Beacon Is Back On, Atop the Lighthouse

Three-Month Search Finally Sheds Light on the Problem That Lightning Started

BarnegatLighthouse is lit again, after persistent technical tinkering with the mechanism that powers the Fresnel lens. It wasn’t Sandy that extinguished the beacon but lightning last summer, said members of the Friends of Barnegat Lighthouse State Park. “The light was back on again Tuesday night (Feb. 26),” said Friends Trustee and Past President Angelo Rinaldi, “and like an expectant and […]

Hear About Titanic Disaster From Irish Perspective at Beach Haven Library

The Beach Haven Public Library presents “A Tear from a Stone:The Titanic Tragedy Hits a Parish in Ireland” on Thursday, March 14, at 2 p.m. Guest speaker JImCurley said that when theTitanic sank 101 years ago next month, more than 1,500 people lost their lives. There were 2,228 passengerand crew on board when it sank. “Of the 710 who were […]

Recapping Epic Run of Winter Surf With a Female Winter Warrior

Liquid Lines
It's Been One Swell After Another and Kali Emery Has Been on Them All

The surf has been good lately. No better way to start a column than that. It’s been firing of late – plenty of swell, some size, good winds, tons of barrels and all-around quality surf. And I know it’s been good because I have yet to see an LBI version of the “Harlem Shake.” Oh, strike that. I just found […]

The Celebrated, Hot Euro Model – Everyone Is Talking About It

Commentary

Things have been quite odd since Superstorm Sandy exited stage left four-plus months ago. We all have seen and felt the impact she left behind in her wake. But a strange phenomenon has seemingly taken hold of our society that has me a little perplexed. Sandy has not only left us with wrecked homes, crumbled dunes and the dire need […]

Step It Up

Letters

To the Editor: We are very disappointed with the lack of response from the Southern Ocean County Chamber of Commerce with respect to the request of the mayors of LBI in the way of a stepped-up advertising campaign shouting that “LBI is Alive” and ready for Summer 2013. Our elected officials are layered with substantial challenges (beach replenishment, easement holdouts, […]

Lack of Involvement

Letters

To the Editor: I have worked in real estate sales on LBI for more than 10 years. I must say that I am very disappointed regarding the lack of involvement on the part of the Southern Ocean County Chamber of Commerce since Superstorm Sandy. We have seen a great deal of negative stories and pictures from the various media, but […]

March 6 Art Notes

Irish Arts: Works of art by Amergael artists and guests from the Pine Shore Art Association are on display at the Long Beach Island Branch of the Ocean County Library through March 24. * * * LBI Artists Wanted: The deadline to apply to be part of the 8th annual LBI Artists Open Studio Tour is May 1. Artists must […]

Meet Author/Photographer Kevin Karlson at Tuckerton Seaport

Author/Photographer Is One for the Birds

Ornithologist Kevin Karlson is the guest presenter at the next meeting of the Southern Ocean Birding Group at the Tuckerton Seaport on Thursday, March 14, at 7 p.m. Come meet an artist/scientist who has devoted his talents to the avian creatures so many of us love. Karlson is an accomplished wildlife photographer, birder, author and professional tour leader whose specialty […]