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•October 26, 2024
Dutch Painter’s Barnegat Light Work Set for Lunar Launch
The atmospheric contemporary realism of painter Eric van der Vlugt came to Wildflowers Too! Gallery in Barnegat Light a handful of years ago by way of the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and…
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•October 25, 2024
‘True-Blue Advocates’ Take to the Shoreline for Beach Sweeps
The sun was out in full force, as were the seaside stewards, for this fall’s Clean Ocean Action Beach Sweeps, held last Saturday, Oct. 19, throughout New Jersey. “True-blue ocean advocates took to…
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•October 24, 2024
Alexa Tabbacchino Speaks at White House for Italian American Heritage Month
On Monday, Oct. 14, Waretown resident Alexa Tabbacchino picked up her phone to check the time. What she saw instead was a life-changing text message inviting her to introduce First Lady Jill Biden at…
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•October 24, 2024
Ceremony Honors Mary Catherine Kennedy
On a sun-splashed Oct. 19 afternoon, the Barnegat Historical Society celebrated the reopening of its barbershop at the group’s Heritage Village and Museum on East Bay Avenue and also dedicated a…
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•October 24, 2024
Pinelands Girls Volleyball Team Takes 19-Match Win Streak into Conference Tourney
Several weeks ago, after the Pinelands Regional girls volleyball squad’s three-game victory over division rival Barnegat, senior hitter Jill Becker was adamant that the Wildcats were good enough to…
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•October 24, 2024
Trunk or Treat in Ship Bottom, Surf City
For all of those thrill-seeking, spooky-season lovers, there is no sweeter treat on Long Beach Island than events sponsored by Ship Bottom and Surf City first responders on consecutive nights, making…
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•October 24, 2024
Risk Is Low, But Some Fish Can Make You Sick
Last June I got a call from my grandson Steven from Okaloosa Island in the Florida Panhandle. Steven and his wife, Bridget, were very sick from food poisoning. I asked what they had for dinner at one…
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•October 22, 2024
New President Brings Wide-Ranging Experience to Ocean County College
In July 2023, Pamela Monaco officially began her tenure as the president of Ocean County College. She immediately got to work, alongside faculty and staff, to resolve an accreditation compliance…
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•October 20, 2024
Southern Captures First Girls Soccer Division Title With Win Over Barnegat
Apparently, Sam Russell really loves pancakes. Assistant coach Eric Geddes promised pancakes in exchange for a goal, and the senior forward delivered.
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•October 19, 2024
9/11 Recovery Survivors Gather for an LBI Weekend Retreat
All the guests at Susan Howland’s summer home on Delaware Avenue in Beach Haven Terrace last weekend shared laughter and tears, and all had something in common. They were at Ground Zero after 9/11.
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•October 18, 2024
Spooky Decorations Aid St. Jude Hospital
One of the most elaborate Halloween decorations in Barnegat Township is located at 150 Spruce Circle North. Throngs of people visit daily to check out the colorful and spooky features.
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•October 16, 2024
Dry Times in the Pines Has Smokey Sweating; How Fishing Prevented Walmart Brawl
I’m obliged to start with a wildfire warning. Smokey Bear is now officially sweating out the current ultradry conditions.
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•October 16, 2024
Newcomers Go the Distance in Annual 18 Mile Run
Eric Den Uyl never thought he’d run the length of Long Beach Island, never mind do it just months after his mother, Claudia, lost her battle with cancer. But there he was on Oct. 13, celebrating with…
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•October 16, 2024
Hurricane Kirk Delivers and a Return to Quick Moving Weather Patterns, Autumn Spells and Magic
If there are spelling mistakes and grammatical errors in this column, I apologize in advance. I am pecking this out on Monday morning while I struggle north up the Boulevard. I started the 18-mile…
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•October 16, 2024
Make Plans for Annual Tournament at the Sand Trap in November
The name is changing, the beneficiary is changing and it’s no longer going to be played on Thanksgiving weekend. But it’s never going to stop being a great mini golf tournament contested for a great…
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•October 14, 2024
LBI Private Chef to Host Cooking Show
When private chef Nicole Dragon left San Diego to spend the summer at her family’s house on Long Beach Island, she didn’t expect to end the summer with her own cooking show in the works.
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•October 13, 2024
Tuckerton Native Skateboarder Ronnie Kessner Turns Pro
“We all knew Ronnie was a talented and dedicated skater since he was very young,” said Fay Kessner of Tuckerton.
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•October 11, 2024
LBI Kite Festival Soars Into 10th Season
Even with changes to its name and schedule, the two-day, 10th annual LBI Invitational Kite Festival planned for this weekend promises to bring more of the same high-flying fun and activities for the…
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•October 10, 2024
LBI Region Steps Up to Aid North Carolina Hurricane Survivors
Midmorning on a bright, warm and sunny Sunday in October, the parking lot of the Surf City Volunteer Fire Co. No. 1 and EMS was far removed from western North Carolina, where residents in one of the…
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•October 10, 2024
Wally’s, Country Kettle Named Chowder Cook-Off Champs
“Chowderfest” was canceled. In its place, the new and improved Beach Haven Chowder Cook-Off was a soup-erlative event that brought more than 7,500 hungry taste-testers to the Taylor Avenue field…
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•October 10, 2024
Cavagnaro Honored at State DAR Conference
The Middletown Chapter of New Jersey State Society Daughters of the American Revolution has awarded Thy (pronounced Tee) Cavagnaro with an Americanism Medal at the recent NJDAR state conference.
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•October 10, 2024
State Presents Ethel Jacobsen Elementary With ‘Cream of the Crop’ Award
Representatives from the N.J. Department of Agriculture and the N.J. Department of Education visited the Ethel A. Jacobsen Elementary School in Surf City last week to tour its garden, cafeteria and…
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•October 10, 2024
Southern Boys Score Solid Wins Over Shawnee, Point Borough
During the middle 15 minutes of the second half on Oct. 3, Aidan Donnelly had four opportunities to increase the Southern Regional boys soccer team’s lead. The Point Pleasant Borough goalkeeper…
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•October 10, 2024
October Ends Bad Wind Pattern; Epic Weather Weekend, All Manner of Waves and Relentless Hurricanes
Before I get into the jokey jokes, I just want to say that as someone who covers weather, even peripherally, Hurricane Milton is hitting Florida right now and there will be some serious loss. We’ll…
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•October 10, 2024
There Was a Time and Plan for Offshore Nuclear Power; To All My Greenhead Fly Children
THE WAY WE WEREN’T: So, you think the proposed offshore wind turbine farms are the worst idea to ever menace the Island’s eastern horizon. Nay.
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•October 8, 2024
Ship Bottom Resiliency Focus on Funding for Living Shoreline, Raising Bulkheads
After years of being in limbo, Ship Bottom could get a boost for its living shoreline project with the help of a consulting firm working to help the borough develop and implement resiliency plans.
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•October 7, 2024
Plein Air Painter Marjorie Haley Pursues Inspiration on Open Road
One artist whose work is part of the current “Plein Air Plus” exhibition at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences in Loveladies is Marjorie Haley of Hackettstown, who spends most…
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•October 7, 2024
Cycling Traffic Signal Sought to Address Bike Safety
Six months after officials in neighboring Island towns expressed opposing views on adding a traffic signal at 31st Street and the Boulevard in Ship Bottom, a contingent of the borough’s governing…
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•October 5, 2024
The Long, Strange Trip a Lifeguard Stand Took; Squalene Might Spell Deeper Doom for Sharks
I’m being mysteriously drawn to the emergent mystery of how a Ship Bottom lifeguard stand recently washed up on a beach in Delaware – looking surprisingly chipper. It was seemingly no worse for wear…
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•October 3, 2024
Cook-Off Weekend Arrives at Last
It’s finally here. The new and improved Beach Haven Chowder Cook-Off, presented by the Beach Haven Chamber of Commerce and the Hunger Foundation of Southern Ocean, comes to the Taylor Avenue field…
