Three Bengals Make Early College Football Commitments

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It’s very possible that in a few years, two teammates on the Barnegat High School varsity football team may be facing each other on opposite sides of the field on the college level. Within a recent two-week period, three incoming seniors who will be integral members of the 2014 team made early commitments. Wide receiver/linebacker Manny Bowen decided on Penn […]

Young Author Harper A. Brooks to Hold First Book Signing July 26

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A member of Barnegat High School’s inaugral graduating class is finding success as an author. The 24-year-old Barnegat resident, who wishes to be referred by her pseudonym, Harper A. Brooks, had her first book published last summer. On Saturday, July 26, at 2 p.m. she will sign copies of the book His Haven at a meet-and-greet at the Lacey branch […]

ORDER UP: French Fried Lobster

The Beachcomber: Food and Beverage July 18, 2014

COME ‘N GET IT: Howard’s Restaurant, 13500 Baltic Ave., Beach Haven Gardens, 609-492-2319. CULIN-SPIRATION: Howard Sparks, the grandfather of current owner Kevin Sparks, began with a luncheonette in the same area and experimented with making lobster into nuggets in the 1950s as most seafood on the Jersey Shore was broiled or fried at the time. When Howard passed away, Kevin’s […]

Day Care Center to Serve Children of Barnegat School Employees 

Beginning in September, the Barnegat Township School District will open a day care center to serve young children for its full- and part-time employees. District Superintendent Karen Wood said the Bengal Cubs Early Learning Center would be located in the Joseph Donahue Elementary School and operate from 6 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. five days a week. Wood said a preliminary […]