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•June 27, 2024
Garden Tour Enchants; Proceeds Enrich Community
Garden enthusiasts and sun lovers came together on Thursday, June 20 for The Garden Club of Long Beach Island’s Outside Living Garden Tour and Art Show. The all-day event provided ticket holders with…
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•June 27, 2024
Cold Water Last Week? Let’s Blame Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis. Boy were we ever cursing his name last week!
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•June 27, 2024
New Scoop on Hurricanes Doesn’t Match Narratives; We Remain Among the Farmingest States
Long Beach Island’s greatest claim to summer fame, even beyond beaching, fishing, surfing, boating, crabbing, ice creaming, mini-golfing, coffee shop hopping, turbine hating and woozily high weekly…
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•June 25, 2024
New Jersey Sees Rise in Recreational Boating Accidents
The U.S. Coast Guard’s 2023 report on recreational boating incidents found the number of accidents, deaths and injuries was down nationwide for the third consecutive year after reaching a record high…
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•June 24, 2024
Barnegat Town Dock Gazebo Is Shut Down
A longtime fixture at the Barnegat Township municipal dock is temporarily inaccessible to the public.
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•June 23, 2024
Protection for Shorebirds Persists on Horseshoe Island
2024 is the third year, as per a five-year management right agreement, that Horseshoe Island and its adjacent tidal waters have been closed to all public uses from March 1 to Sept. 1 to protect…
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•June 22, 2024
Art Notes: Instrumental at LBI Arts Foundation, Marvin Levitt Leaves Large Body of Work
Shaping History: Marvin Levitt, beloved sculptor and longtime faculty member at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences in Loveladies, passed away at age 99 on June 5. He was…
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•June 21, 2024
Ukrainian Exchange Student Ends Up an ‘Americanized’ Southern Graduate
Shortly after receiving his diploma, tossing his cap and walking off the Goldberger Memorial Stadium field, Yaroslav Soria put in a FaceTime call to his parents back home in Ukraine.
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•June 20, 2024
Coast Guard Terminates Passenger Voyage for Unsafe Conditions
A safety boarding by Coast Guard Station Barnegat Light personnel June 12 resulted in the termination of the voyage of a small passenger vessel operating in violation of a captain of the port order…
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•June 20, 2024
Beach Cleanup Station More Than Just Trash Collection
Periodically, flashing electronic road signs on Route 72 remind beachgoers headed to Long Beach Island for summer fun in the sun, on the sand and in the sea to put down their phones. On the Island…
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•June 20, 2024
Blessing of the Fleet Brings Community Together
Hope, family, community and safety were themes at the annual Blessing of the Fleet Sunday, June 16 at Barnegat Light Yacht Basin. The event was described as an interdenominational service where…
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•June 20, 2024
Surf City Courts Community as Pickleball Area Opens
Pickleball’s popularity continues to grow unabated. Locally, the most epic pickleball-related news this spring is the opening of the updated courts in Surf City.
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•June 20, 2024
Moon Sisters Write Ode to Local Landmark Seven Bridges Road
With concert season in full swing, it feels good to have countless opportunities to support our very own artists. Last month, Sound Waves celebrated the summer playlist, peppered with a handful of…
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•June 20, 2024
Things Revealed in June; Tropic Thunder Starting to Rumble
It’s also Pride Month and the month we celebrate the nationally recognized holiday Juneteenth. All that makes June tough on certain straight, white people in a beach resort area who face such…
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•June 18, 2024
New App Provides Digital Beach Badges for Some LBI Towns
With a new smartphone app, the days of hustling down to the beach and forgetting to grab a badge amid the rush could be a thing of the past.
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•June 17, 2024
10 Years Later, Lizzie Rose Music Room’s Still Making Magic
When Lou Reichert opened the Lizzie Rose Music Room nearly a decade ago, he was continuing a long legacy of stewardship of live music and the arts. The nonprofit listening room, situated inside a…
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•June 16, 2024
Dad Leads Way as Son Follows Volunteerism Footsteps
American inventor Charles Kettering was only partially correct when he said “every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice.” At least in the case of…
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•June 16, 2024
Life With Father on a Cuban Sugar Cane Plantation
My family is from Cuba, where they owned a sugar cane plantation that later was taken over by Castro as part of his new communist regime. In 1959, at 19 years old and having just finished high…
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•June 15, 2024
Demolition Reveals a Blast From the Past
As the Silver Sun Mall was demolished last week, a piece of Beach Haven history resurfaced.
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•June 14, 2024
Perfect Summer Adventure Sandwich: Little Clean Waves and Hop Sauce Weekend
What I’m talking about in the headline is a sandwich idea for your summer, something we’ve been making to take on hikes, beach days and boat adventures for a few summers now – the peanut butter and…
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•June 13, 2024
Beach Haven ‘Gator’ Assists With Beach Access
Beach Haven’s Gator beach taxi service is up and running for its third summer in which older and disabled people get improved access to borough beaches.
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•June 13, 2024
Ship Bottom Working on Traffic Problems, Potential Rowdiness
It didn’t take long for seasonal traffic safety concerns to arise in Ship Bottom as residents brought the issue, among others, to the borough council’s May meeting, one day after the unofficial start…
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•June 13, 2024
Stafford School District Plans $75.7 Million Referendum
In September, the Stafford Township School District will seek the help of voters on a $75.7 million referendum that it claims will strengthen the structures and systems of its school buildings while…
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•June 13, 2024
Major League Baseball Suspends Former Barnegat Pitcher for a Year
Former Barnegat High School star pitcher Jay Groome, drafted by the Boston Red Sox soon after graduating in 2016, has had a roller coaster career through eight years and six seasons in the minor…
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•June 13, 2024
Island Guards Grace Big Screen
HOME SWEET SANDBAR: ‘How the Waves Were Won’ isn’t just any lifeguard movie; it’s a documentary about Long Beach Island’s very own lifeguards, specifically the Harvey Cedars Beach Patrol and its…
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•June 13, 2024
‘Honor Long Overdue’ – Former Mayor Is Grand Marshal for 60th Stafford Founders Day
As the sleek, white convertible slowly crept northward on Route 9 toward the Oxycocus School, the man sitting atop the back seat, waving to the crowds of residents lining both sides of the roadway…
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•June 13, 2024
Spice Is Nice at Sea Pirate’s 25th Chili Cook-Off
Sea Pirate Campground in West Creek hosted its annual Craft Beer Bash and Chili Cook-Off Saturday afternoon. Competition was tense as 10 chili booths desired to be crowned chili master while five…
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•June 11, 2024
Jay Leno: ‘Nothing Funnier Than Comedy in New Jersey’
The following interview was contributed to The SandPaper by guest writer John Poveromo of Beach Haven West, a nationally touring comedian, cartoonist, writer and actor, and the host of “Dystopia…
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•June 9, 2024
Surflight’s ‘Million Dollar Quartet’ a Perfect Production
I’m not a huge fan of jukebox musicals. When playwrights construct story lines that have to fit around a number of disparate songs that often span many years and albums or, worse yet, many artists…
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•June 7, 2024
Competitive LIFF Documentaries Cover a Lot of Ground
Eight full-length films are in the 2024 Lighthouse International Film Festival’s documentaries competition, hoping to win the jury award or audience award or – what a coup that would be – both.
