Barnegat Students’ Summer Has a French Twist

A group of French language students at Barnegat High School will look at their course in a whole new light when the school bells ring again in September. That’s because the 14 teens spent 10 days last month on a tour of France led by their teacher, Valerie Morris. They saw many of the popular sites of Paris – the […]

Garage Kept Is Trying to Keep the Classics Alive 

“We’re not pros. We’re just a bunch of local guys who love to play music together.” That’s the mantra of Garage Kept, a five-piece classic rock bandthat played Friday night at Kubel’s Too in the Beach Haven Crest section of Long Beach Township. The band started the way many do – a couple of musicians jamming together for fun, and […]

When We Count Our Blessings, Is the Web Really Among Them?

Commentary

There are a lot of older houses here on Long Beach Island of the single-story, ranch variety that have a room connecting the house to the garage. Called “breezeways,” they usually have jalousie or similar windows that allow sea breezes to pass through. My Aunt Rita still lives in such a house, and a bunch of years ago I made […]

LIT Success Story

Letters

To the Editor: In the early ’90s, in spite of having insufficient income, my wife and I purchased a small Cape Cod in Holgate. Required at that time were the renting of our home, my working a second job and my wife having to drive to LBI each Saturday to clean our home for the next renters. We dreamed of […]

Barefooting Brings Back Memories

SpeakEasy

I was on my way to the dentist to get another replacement part for my slowly aging anatomy when I had to stop because of a convoy crossing the Boulevard at the “wherever-I-cross-is-the-crosswalk.” I really am trying the kinder, gentler approach being espoused by many fellow year-round Island residents, but I have to tell you, I’ll probably have to get […]

Don’t Like It – Move

Letters

To the Editor: Ms. Zaslavsky, your letter (“Restrict Parking,” 8/7) regarding parking restrictions on LBI in order to punish “day hoppers,” also known as bennies and shoebees, reinforces something that my dad told me years ago: “The difference between a fool and a damn fool is that a fool unthinkingly utters something and a damn fool backs it up in […]

Remarkable Help

Letters

To the Editor: We at Surflight Theatre are thrilled to see our audiences back and grateful for their continuing patronage ofthe main stage productions, children’s theater, our concert seriesand Show Place Ice Cream Parlour. After sustaining4feet ofwater from Superstorm Sandy, we could not have reopened without the efforts of our hard-working staff and groups of extraordinary volunteers and benefactors. Jetty […]

Better Than Broadway

Letters

To the Editor: Wow! I saw “Les Misérables” on Broadway and recently felt like I was there again. Goosebumps! Tears! Amazing! Save yourself a two-hour drive to NYC and go see “Les Misérables” at Surflight Theatre in Beach Haven.It is as good as Broadway, actually better – audience members are so close to the stage for less than half the […]

Ridiculous

Letters

To the Editor: I never got around to writing a quick response to Ms. Freda’s “Sticking It to the Bennies” (7/24). I have only written one other letter to The SandPaper in its existence and that letter was in response to a woman who saw rabbits eating her flowers and wondered how there were rabbits on the Island. I just […]

Unwelcome Walkways

Letters

To the Editor: Earlier this month, while strolling down the beach in Holgate, it was hard not to notice that some oceanfront homeowners have decided that the rest of the Island be damned; they need personal beach access. Not only have some of these owners rebuilt their walkways over the dunes, the owners of one in particular have tunneled into […]