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News••February 15, 2024
Fishing Group Deploys Reef Balls Off Beach Haven
On Monday, Feb. 12, the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association through its Junior Mates program deployed 17 reef balls onto the Little Egg Reef off Beach Haven.
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Sports••February 15, 2024
Southern Hockey Team Reaches Dowd Cup Final With Shutout
The Southern Regional ice hockey team seems to be playing at its best right now. After going 8-7-1 through their first 16 games, the Rams have won four straight, including a solid, shutout effort on…
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News••February 15, 2024
Central Avenue Redesign Raises Public Safety Concerns in Surf City
There’s still no word from state transportation officials on the potential impact of converting Central Avenue into a two-way road north of Route 72 West on Long Beach Island will have on traffic…
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Arts & Entertainment••February 15, 2024
Kids Learn to Say It With Flowers
Florigraphy, or the language of flowers, was the theme of a Valentine’s Day project at the Long Beach Island branch of the Ocean County Library in Surf City last week with the Garden Club of Long…
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News••February 15, 2024
All Treated Like Royalty at This Prom
WHAT A NIGHT!: Bayside Chapel in Barnegat Township invited people with special needs to a ‘Night to Shine’ on Friday, Feb. 9. Some of the 160 guests get on stage to sing along to the pulsating dance…
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Arts & Entertainment••February 15, 2024
Midwinter, Makers Make It: Here’s How
Creativity and inspiration, while forever bedfellows, aren’t always on speaking terms. For some fine artists, the colorful, happy world of exhibiting and celebrating their work has a shadow side…
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News••February 15, 2024
Thorny West Creek Zoning Issues Present ‘Perception Problem’ If Not Addressed
At the Eagleswood Township Committee meeting in January, land use board member Sean Kinnevy gave an update on some outstanding zoning and code enforcement violation matters.
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Opinion••February 15, 2024
65-Year Love Story
With Valentine’s Day, the thought came to me to write to you about our wonderful marriage and how proud I am of being married for 65 years.
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Opinion•February 15, 2024
Sharing Is Caring
Do you have a sock drawer at home with a new pair of socks? A homeless person and those in need don’t!
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Columns••February 15, 2024
How Legends Are Made: Behind the Scenes, in the Studio
What a weekend for music … and rumor has it there was also a major sports game? While super fans around the nation were looking forward to the “Bob Weir vs. Taylor Swift” Super Bowl, with Rolling…
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News••February 15, 2024
Road Projects, Park Improvements Continue Throughout Little Egg Harbor
Continuing a trend from the last two years, Little Egg Harbor is getting well underway with funding improvements projects to parks and roadways throughout town, with more progress made during the…
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Opinion•February 15, 2024
Flowers for Valentine’s Day Strike a Chord With Dancers
“Flowers for me!” I howled. “Valentine flowers and they’re roses!” They were wrapped in tissue in a long narrow box with a little card on the top, “I will love you forever, Love Bill.”
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News••February 15, 2024
Public Input Sought on Shipping Safety Fairways Proposal
Heightened interest in offshore commercial development, including wind farms, is prompting the U.S. Coast Guard to propose a rule that would establish shipping safety fairways along the Atlantic…
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Sports••February 14, 2024
Southern Regional Routs Hunterdon Central, Phillipsburg to Snag Second Straight State Title
For many wrestlers, the last few weeks of the season are the prime times, when they can showcase their talents on the stages of the district, regional and state tournaments.
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News••February 14, 2024
Frog Pond Student Aims to Break Fundraising Record for Kids Heart Challenge
Last week, Little Egg Harbor Mayor Blaise Scibetta honored the American Heart Association by proclaiming February as American Heart Month, acknowledging the first Friday in February National Wear Red…
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News••February 14, 2024
Lovely Day For a Dip
BRRR: More than 160 people dash into the ocean for the 20th annual Super Plunge, held in Brant Beach Saturday, Feb 10. The faces reflect the 42-degree water temp. All ages take part each year.…
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Opinion•February 14, 2024
Clean House at OCC
The Asbury Park Press recently reported the Ocean County College Board of Trustees approved and paid for $300,000 in junkets to Egypt of then college President Jon Larson and his minions, wasted…
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News••February 14, 2024
Ocean County Library Commission Reorganizes
The Ocean County Library Commission held its reorganization meeting on Jan. 16 at the headquarters of the library system in the Franklin H. Berry Jr. Board Room of the Toms River branch.
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News••February 14, 2024
Cedar Bridge Tavern May Get Live-In Caretaker
Barnegat Township’s historic Cedar Bridge Tavern may be getting a full-time caretaker who will live on the premises, according to a resolution adopted by the Ocean County Board of Commissioners at…
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Columns••February 14, 2024
AI Goes Natural, Offering Quiet Ways to Watch Wildlife; Gig Economy Not New to the Island
Artificial intelligence is rushing to the wildlife conservation rescue. It’s especially showing in Ecuador, where scientists have set up advanced recording devices capable of gathering wildlife…
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Opinion•February 14, 2024
Sincere Thanks
I would like to offer a sincere thank-you to the Long Beach Township Police Department.
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News••February 14, 2024
After 43 Years, Georgia Shaffery Calls It a Career
Nearly all of the work force in the Barnegat Township Municipal Building was in attendance at the township committee Feb. 6 meeting to honor one of their own, Georgia Shaffery, who as of Feb. 1…
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Business••February 14, 2024
Teen Night a No-Go; Gables Garners Accolade; Love in Air at LBIF
Joe Pop’s in Ship Bottom has retracted the announcement made earlier this month about the weekly Teen Nights that were planned for this summer. The borough of Ship Bottom prohibits such events by…
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News••February 14, 2024
Townsend Takes Barnegat Committee Seat
At its meeting Tuesday morning, the Barnegat Township Committee appointed Jake Townsend to fill the remaining year of William Farmer’s term. Farmer, who was first elected in 2021, announced his…
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Sports••February 14, 2024
Big Revisions Force Bowling Teams into Head-to-Head Matches in State Tourney
There’s been a significant shakeup for the high school bowling state tournament this year. The question is whether it’s going to be good for the sport or a short-lived change.
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Opinion•February 14, 2024
Unions Play Crucial Role – in My Family and Others’
This past year witnessed a renewed enthusiasm for and interest in labor movement action, such as the New Jersey nursing union strike at Robert Wood Johnson and national attention for the United Auto…
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Arts & Entertainment••February 14, 2024
Art Notes, Feb. 14
Look Within: Create a mixed media “sanctuary” of the mind on Tuesday, Feb. 20 at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences in Loveladies. From 1 to 3 p.m., healing arts professional…
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Columns••February 14, 2024
Bitter Battle to Save ‘Barney’ Continues
Walking around Barnegat Lighthouse today cannot give you a picture of what it was like 100 years ago. If you walk around the base of the lighthouse, you realize how close Barnegat Inlet has eroded…
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Arts & Entertainment••February 14, 2024
Irish Soda Bread Sale Taking Orders
The Sons of the American Legion group from American Legion Post 232 in Barnegat Township is doing a homemade Irish soda bread fundraiser.
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Arts & Entertainment••February 14, 2024
Breaking Good at Stockton Performing Arts Center Feb. 16
In the early 1970s there were a number of cultural shifts taking place in the United States. There was the women’s liberation movement, which Philip Morris co-opted to boost its Virginia Slims brand…
