Southern Ocean Medical Center Celebrates 50th Anniversary With Community Celebration


Southern Ocean Medical Center in Manahawkin is celebrating 50 years of service to the community on Saturday, Sept. 10 with a free Family Fun Day. The milestone is observed as there is much to celebrate through the hospital’s history, through the medical center’ present and future. “We are excited to invite the community to celebrate our 50th anniversary with us,” […]

Romanticizing September With Tropics on the Rise, Plus Levels of Hurricane Preparedness

Liquid Lines

We do a lot of romanticizing about September around here. If you look at the LBI region as a music festival metaphor, summer will always be the headliner – all those people dropping money for that big-ticket act and the hit songs. But for a lot of people, September and October are the act they really want to see, a […]

Make Way for Rosie the Recycler


Last month, Harvey Cedars held its annual “Hooked on Fishing Not on Drugs” event, and members of the Garden Club of Long Beach Island added another dimension – get hooked on recycling. The club brought along Rosie the Recycler, a mannequin covered head to toe in plastics. “Rosie demonstrates the new recycling guidelines that now include plastics #1, 2 and […]

Surflight’s ‘The Fields of Ambrosia’ Unlike Any Other Production

Traveling Electric Chair, Unusual Prison Romance

Composer Martin Silvestri is hoping the third time is the charm for his and lyricist/book writer Joel Higgins’ musical “The Fields of Ambrosia,” which will open at Surflight Theatre on Sept. 8. Back in 1993 things were looking mighty good for their show, based on a 1970 film called “The Traveling Executioner” which starred Stacey Keach. The show got mostly […]

Soil, Water Test Results Could Impact Causeway Project Timeline


New Jersey transportation officials are mulling the results of soil and water testing conducted this summer as the result of unforeseen conditions at the site of the final phase of the $312 million multi-year federally funded Causeway expansion and rehab project to determine what happens next. “The results just came back this week and are being reviewed by the NJDOT,” […]

Naughty Pines’ Labor Day Show Revives Sound Waves; Original Music to Tide Listeners Over Through Autumn

Sound Waves

As Labor Day falls between two SandPaper issues, it makes for a bonus edition of Sound Waves! After such a stellar Labor Day weekend, it would be wrong not to issue a Sound Waves. The sun was beaming, water temps were up, humidity was down, and the Island was bumping with a massive variety of music. The Sea Shell Resort […]

Females on Film: Two Photographers Opt for Vintage Format

ArtBeat

Film may have been “before their time,” but that only adds to the allure for Lucy Nedeau and Nattaley Gyger, two women learning the techniques of analog and digital photography simultaneously. The grainy quality, or noise, paired with cool unintended effects of lens flare and camera shake is part of the old-school appeal of film, which was already becoming outmoded […]

Barnegat Runners Dominate at Fire Company 5-K Race


Nearly 300 runners of various ages participated in the Barnegat Township Volunteer Fire Co.’s 19th annual Stop Drop and Run on Sept. 3. The event, featuring a 5K and 10K, began and ended at the township dock, sending runners on a winding course over bayfront and lagoon areas off Bayshore Drive. In the 5K run, 38-year-old Meaghan Drapkin of Brick […]