Lagoonfront Koi Pond Hobby Rebuilt After Sandy Submersion

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” Actually, we found fish in the mailbox; that’s how deep the water was,” said Chris Reedel, speaking of Superstorm Sandy’s surprise cleanout of the koi pond on their property in the Village Harbour section of Manahawkin, near Beach Haven West. A year later, the pond is rebuilt more cleverly than ever, a project of Reedel and his wife, Audrey, […]

Unbroken Devotion

Letters

To the Editor: Tracing two histories over a 52-year period of exposure to LBI’s unpredictable storms tells the tale of two courageous families: the Newmans of Verona and the Borrus of Springfield. Starting in 1951, after a few get-to-know-each-other years at the Sierra Motel, we said, “Let’s buy a house together, sharing what­ever arises. Let’s roll the dice.” And that […]

A Holiday for Giving Thanks, for Some Waves … Finally

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Being as this column is every other week now, this will be my last before Thanksgiving. For those who may have forgotten, Thanksgiving is the next holiday on the calendar, very easy to forget when Christmas gets started in October. For real, it’s getting insane. Being as your leftover Halloween pumpkin can double as Thanksgiving décor, there’s not a whole […]

Home Depot Makes Life Easier for Disabled Resident

The morning of Nov. 14 was chilly and crisp when a Home Depot truck and a convoy of cars pulled up in front of the Barnegat Township home of Dan and Jessica Moore on Ravenwood Boulevard. The 15 workers who showed up were on hand for a true labor of love, as “Team Depot” from the Manahawkin franchise constructed some […]

Santa’s Traditional Barnegat Light Arrival

By Boat, What Other Way? On Nov. 29, Then at Viking Village the Next Day

For Barnegat Light residents, it’s a longstanding tradition; for visitors, they say it’s the most uniquely seashore arrival of Santa Claus that they could imagine: Old St. Nick arrives by boat in this town. The night is the same as usual, the night after Thanksgiving – on Friday, Nov. 29, at 6:30 p.m. Everyone gathers at the municipal boat ramp […]

Post-Sandy Repairs to LBI School Could Conclude in February

Post-Sandy restoration of the Long Beach Island Grade School in Ship Bottom is under way, and district Superintendent Karen McKeon hopes to see the work wrap up in February. The school sustained significant damage in the 2012 superstorm, and the Island’s third- through sixth-graders were moved to the Ethel A. Jacobsen Elementary School in Surf City, where they have been […]

Art Notes Nov. 20

All American: The American Artists’ Professional League will exhibit works by members at the Ocean County Arts and Community Gallery on the main campus of Ocean County College in Toms River, through Dec. 12. Admission is free and available while school is open and during theatrical or musical events. * * * Sparkling Crafts: The Christmas Craft show at the […]

Artist Jeff Ruemeli Is a ‘Glass Act’ at m.t. burton gallery


The day after Thanksgiving, most people will be either slowly recovering from their gluttonous repast or heading out for some elbow-fighting action in department store Black-Friday sales events. But Manahawkin artist Jeff Ruemeli will be assisting in a team effort to create the world’s largest blown glass ornament, in the glass studio at Wheaton Arts in Millville. “We do it […]

My Uncle Bill

Letters

To the Editor: Nov. 23 is National Survivors of Suicide Day. When she was 11 years old my niece Nikke Boyle of Lindenwold wrote the following essay for a class project and received an A+. I still remember sitting there on his lap, watching the clouds pass by. Waiting … just waiting to go to Chuck E. Cheese’s. Almost every […]

Piping Plovers Are One Beneficiary of Superstorm Sandy 

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One year ago, Superstorm Sandy moved tons of sand inland and upward, as storms have done for millennia, causing much suffering to New Jersey’s coastal communities. But not so for the piping plover, a native beachfront bird. It turns out that Sandy was both useful and essential to the future survival of piping plovers, Charadrius melodius. These endangered, sparrow-size birds […]