Beach Haven Fire Co. Gives Rescheduled Block Party a Spooky Twist

For the first time in 20 years, the Beach Haven Volunteer Fire Co.’s annual Block Party, normally held alongside Chowderfest weekend, had to be rescheduled due to flooding concerns from a nor’easter. To make up for it, thecompany is hosting a scaled-back version of the event, Halloween-style, at the firehouse on Friday, Oct. 30, from 5 to 9 p.m. “(Hurricane) […]

Chefs Get Fresh and Creative at Old Causeway’s Farm to Fork Dinner

Chef Geoff hosts PBS's Steven Meese to Cook for Patrons

It’s not every meal you eat out that diners request the chef to come to the table so they can have a photo taken. But that was the scene late Wednesday night, Oct. 21,at Old Causeway Steak & Oyster House, where chef Geoff Johnson teamed up with enthusiastic traveling chef Steven Meese for the Farm to Fork Dinner. The way […]

Handhelds Are as Addictive as Heroin

Commentary

Chances are if you came of age in the 1960s, you heard of a very funny man named Rodney Dangerfield. One of his classic jokes went like this: “Yeah … I got two tickets to the fights last night and all of a sudden a hockey game got started.” I could not help but think of his joke the other […]

The Beach

Letters

The beach is my haven No matter what time of year It is where I go To get my head clear In the winter, it’s just me on the sand Staring at the ocean With no tourist commotion. The waves are rough The wind is strong I think to myself, will summer ever come along? In the spring, there is […]

Sisterly Compassion Trumps Brotherly Mischief

SpeakEasy

Life is never boring when my younger brother Frank is around. And, while sometimes a tad rough around his burly edges, he has never been without an edge. I admire that about Frank. For a living, my LaSalle business grad sibling hauls steel around all day long, but not in a truck – he drags it behind him with one […]

Ethel A. Jacobsen School Kindergarteners Snack on Superfoods

Last Friday was full of fruit- and vegetable-laden fun for the kindergartners at the Ethel A. Jacobsen Elementary School in Surf City, who were treated to a presentation on superfoods and healthy snacks. Amy Hogan, a health educator with AtlantiCare’s Healthy Schools, Healthy Children initiative, and FoodCorps “chef in the classroom ” Lorraine Kunick led the program for the students […]

Bass Boat Tourney & Fish Fry a Success for The Maximilian Foundation

Drug Awareness Effort Will Continue the Annual Event

The inaugural Maximilian Foundation Boat Tournament and Fish Fry is in the books with a 32-pound first-prize winner and tremendous community support. There will be another at The Dutchman’s Brauhaus/The Quelle next year- because the reason for the event goes on. Held on three floor levels at The Dutchman’s and its outside bar, the Quelle, the successful fundraiser Oct. 24 […]

Little Egg Harbor Seniors Incensed By Latest Tax Bills

Officials Blame Property Values Lost to Superstorm Sandy

About 20 seniors from the K-Hovnanian developments of Sea Oaks and Harbor Bay came en masse to the Oct. 22 Little Egg Harbor municipal meeting to protest the increase in their 2015-16 property tax bills. According to many, the one-year increase was as large as 25 percent. Ray Schubert from Harbor Bay also asked about a resolution passed at the […]

Noyes Museum of Art Considers a New Location

Aging Building in Woodland Is Costly to Maintain

The Noyes Museum of Art of Stockton University has been at its Oceanville site in Galloway Township since 1982. The building is nestled in the woods off Lily Lake at the gateway of the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge. The unique setting allows for kayak trips, nature sketching from the deck overlooking the lake and shade tree-defused light in […]

Three Years After Sandy Some Mainland Bayside Municipalities Doing Better Than Others

Tuckerton Leads in Percentage of Homes Rebuilt

In many ways it is difficult to say with any assurance that the area’s mainland bayside communities hit hardest by Superstorm Sandy -Stafford, Tuckerton and Little Egg Harbor – are as far along as they hoped they would be in the recovery process three years later. What we do have are the reports from construction officials and township officials. In […]