COVID-19 Dominated News in 2020

Top 20 Stories in Southern Ocean County

It is obvious what the biggest news story of 2020 was in Southern Ocean County as well as the rest of the world. COVID-19. So much so that 2020 was almost two years – pre-COVID and post-COVID. This article will be written in much the same way. It is interesting, though, to see what occupied the minds of Southern Ocean […]

New Owner of Beach Haven’s Holiday Snack Bar Won’t ‘Change a Thing’

One of Beach Haven’s oldest seasonal businesses, a throwback to an earlier time on LBI – the Holiday Snack Bar – will have a new owner when it reopens this spring at 401 Centre St. “I am going to be its fifth owner,” said Eileen Bowker. “This is going to be its 73rd summer.” The new owner is no stranger […]