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News••March 12, 2025
LBT Business and Rental Property Registration Due April 1
In Long Beach Township, no business, including home rentals, is permitted to operate without a business license, unless otherwise exempted by municipal ordinance. This is the second year the township…
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Sports••March 12, 2025
Barnegat’s Season Ends with Sectional Semifinals Loss to Middle Township
During the nearly three weeks of the basketball season in which Emma Thornton sat on the bench nursing an ankle injury, she learned to appreciate the game a little bit more, knowing her career soon…
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News••March 12, 2025
Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate to Visit LBI March 18
Three-term Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop, one of six candidates running in the Democratic primary election for governor, is slated for a meet and greet at The Arlington on Tuesday, March 18.
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News••March 12, 2025
Ocean County Commissioners Take Road Trip to Harvey Cedars
On Thursday, March 6, Harvey Cedars borough hosted a breakfast meeting and discussion for area officials with three Ocean County commissioners and the Ocean County director of Business Development…
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Opinion•March 12, 2025
Restaurant Plan Too Intensive for Harvey Cedars
Our town of Harvey Cedars is one of the quieter towns on LBI, with the perfect mix of commercial and residential. In fact, for a town that is only about 2 miles in length, we have seven eating…
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News••March 12, 2025
Beach Haven Mayor Salutes Meals on Wheels
At the March 10 Beach Haven Borough Council meeting, Mayor Colleen Lambert issued a proclamation celebrating senior nutrition programs and their efforts in the “End the Wait” campaign.
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Arts & Entertainment••March 12, 2025
Barnegat Teacher Plants Literal Seeds of Knowledge
As an environmental science teacher at Barnegat High School and adviser for the school’s environment club, Mario Cunha has had a strong focus on sustainability and self-sufficiency. Since joining the…
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Columns••March 12, 2025
British Report on Skirmish Differs
Over the past several weeks I have presented the Colonial perspective on the events 250 years ago at Lexington and Concord. The reason for the one-sided version is that in 1775, that is the way the…
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Arts & Entertainment••March 12, 2025
‘Songwriters in the Pines’ Back at Albert Hall
Celebrating local music and musicians has always been central to the mission of the Pinelands Cultural Society, which operates the Albert Music Hall in Waretown.
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Business••March 12, 2025
Drink Lattes, Help Shelter Pets; Barnegat Branding Executive Recognized for Excellence
St. Patrick’s Day has gone to the dogs. Yellow Dog Coffee Roasters in Manahawkin and Friends of Southern Ocean County Animal Shelter, both located in Manahawkin, have partnered to benefit shelter…
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News••March 12, 2025
Beach Haven Police Roster Amended
An ordinance adopted by the Beach Haven Borough Council on Monday, March 10 will temporarily change the personnel structure of the police department.
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Opinion•March 12, 2025
Scary for Shore
I am writing to express my concern about withdrawing funds from Medicaid in the House budget bill.
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Arts & Entertainment••March 12, 2025
‘Meet’ Annis Boudinot Stockton at Little Egg Harbor Library
First famous as the wife of a Declaration of Independence signer, Annis Boudinot Stockton later gained renown as a prolific, patriotic poet. Alisa Dupuy portrays this remarkable individual in an…
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Arts & Entertainment••March 12, 2025
Author Linda Rawlins Visiting Waretown Library
Her affinity for the Jersey Shore and her medical career contribute equally to Linda Rawlins’ success as a creator of taut mystery tales. Rawlins is pausing her busy schedule for an appearance at the…
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Arts & Entertainment••March 12, 2025
Spring Toiletries Collection Drive Under Way
Children in need throughout Ocean County cannot always depend on having basic personal hygiene necessities at hand. The Ocean County Library invites the community to make a difference in their lives…
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Arts & Entertainment••March 12, 2025
Art Notes, March 12
Finders, Keepers: SandPaper Artoonist Leslee Ganss is displaying her “Drifters” at the Tuckerton Seaport’s gallery inside the Tucker’s Island Lighthouse Museum through June. Her creations are made of…
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News••March 12, 2025
Channel Dredging Complete; Sand Added to State Park Beach
New Jersey Department of Transportation officials last week announced the completion of navigation dredging of the High Bar Harbor State Channel, with navigation safety restored and dredge material…
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Arts & Entertainment••March 12, 2025
Surflight Offering Theater Programs for Kids 3-17
Surflight Theatre has announced its arts education programs for the summer of 2025.
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Arts & Entertainment••March 12, 2025
Rare Performance of Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony at Stockton
If you want to hear something rare, then you’ll want to visit the Stockton Performing Arts Center at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 16 because the Bay Atlantic Symphony will be performing Beethoven’s…
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Arts & Entertainment••March 12, 2025
Union After Hours Open Mic to Celebrate Women’s History Month
Tuckerton’s Union Market and Gallery, located on the grounds of the Tuckerton Seaport, invites the community to participate in Union After Hours at 6 p.m. on Friday, March 14.
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Arts & Entertainment••March 11, 2025
Historic Woman Lighthouse Keeper Topic of Talk at Lighthouse
At the Barnegat Lighthouse Visitor Center on Saturday, March 15 at 1 p.m., attend a lecture about lighthouse keeper Ellen S. Low. The talk will also cover 1830s LBI, other women keepers, Low’s gown…
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Arts & Entertainment••March 11, 2025
There’s Something for Just About Anybody at Grunin Center This Weekend
Ocean County College’s Grunin Center for the Arts will be a very busy place on Friday and Saturday, March 14 and 15, offering a violin recital, a Tony Award-winning play, a magician and a folk music…
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Arts & Entertainment••March 11, 2025
MyCoast App the Focus on March 15 Science Saturday
Science Saturdays continue at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences with another in-person session from 11 a.m. to noon on March 15. Join Amanda Archer, the training and…
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Opinion••March 11, 2025
Riders on the Storm Brave Harshest LBI Weather
The winter season has now been fully thrust upon us with intense storms, high winds and plunging temperatures replete with ice and snow. Real winter living on the Island allows us to experience and…
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Arts & Entertainment••March 11, 2025
LIFS Screening Film Shot at Location of Kibbutz Destroyed on Oct. 7
The Lighthouse International Film Society will be screening the film “Of Dogs and Men” at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 13 at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences in Loveladies.
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News••March 10, 2025
HCPD Raffle Ticket Leads to a Proposal in Tropical Paradise
Sometimes, fate has a way of bringing people together in the most unexpected and beautiful ways. That’s exactly what happened for Danny Maurus and Abigail Lohrmann, a Harvey Cedars couple whose love…
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Sports••March 9, 2025
Southern Regional’s Stout Finds Way to Snag Crown in Grueling Championship Clash
As the Boardwalk Hall crowd roared its excitement, Wyatt Stout lay on the mat, momentarily staring at the ceiling. Exhaustion had set in, and not just because he had spent 8½ minutes grappling with…
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Arts & Entertainment••March 7, 2025
If the World Has You Down, ‘Arsenic and Old Lace’ Will Pick You Up
The Little Egg Theatre Co. will be performing the classic comedy “Arsenic and Old Lace” at 7 p.m. on March 27, 28, and 29 and at 2 p.m. on March 30 at the Edward Thornton Little Egg Harbor Township…
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News••March 7, 2025
Island Mayors Push NJBPU to Pull Plug on Offshore Wind Farm Off LBI
All six Island mayors are among signatories urging the N.J. Board of Public Utilities to vacate the 2021 offshore wind renewable energy credits it awarded to Atlantic Shores for its project 1 and…
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News••March 6, 2025
Red-Banded Osprey From Long Beach Island Rescued in Trinidad
Through Project RedBand, young ospreys on Barnegat Bay are affixed with red auxiliary field-readable bands to enable future tracking. According to Ben Wurst, senior wildlife biologist with Conserve…
