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•May 21, 2024
Southern Regional Baseball Squad Reaches SCT Championship for First Time
For the first time in the program’s history, the Southern Regional baseball team will play for the Shore Conference Tournament championship.
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•May 20, 2024
Long Beach Township Announces Lineup for Firepit Fridays, Sunday Concerts
Summer is on the horizon, and Long Beach Township is working to get its free seasonal entertainment schedule squared away. The municipality has just finalized the musical lineups for both its Firepit…
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•May 19, 2024
Barnegat Senior Wins ‘Shout Down Drugs’ Competition
Jordon Ford, a senior at Barnegat High School, clinched first place in the 20th annual Your Song! Your Voice! Shout Down Drugs competition, sponsored by the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey.
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•May 18, 2024
Southern Regional Sailors Qualify for National Championship Regatta
It’s been 20 years since it last occurred, but the Southern Regional sailing team is on its way to the national championship regatta.
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•May 17, 2024
Seaport’s Carve Wars Highlights Longstanding South Jersey Folk Art
Nestled along the picturesque shores of New Jersey’s coast lies a hidden gem, a thriving community of folk artists tucked away from the more commercial tourist attractions on and around LBI. Among…
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•May 16, 2024
Ship Bottom Sets LBI School Site Condemnation Hearing
A little more than three months after being authorized to begin a preliminary investigation into whether the LBI Grade School property qualifies as a condemnation area in need of redevelopment, a…
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•May 16, 2024
Plea to Protect Nesting Plovers Aired in Barnegat Light
Councilwoman Dottie Reynolds reported at the May 8 council meeting that the news is not all good for shorebirds that nest in Barnegat Light, particularly the piping plovers.
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•May 16, 2024
Cycling Traffic Lights Signal Summer as Road Work Winds Down on LBI
With the unofficial start of the summer season on the horizon, changes to Long Beach Boulevard this spring go beyond the annual return of fully functioning traffic lights and the lowering of speed…
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•May 16, 2024
LIFF Opening Film Shows Just How Far People Will Go to Be Free
The 2024 Lighthouse International Film Festival’s opening film will be “Los Frikis.”
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•May 16, 2024
Barnegat Bay Partnership: Black Drum Venturing North
According to the Barnegat Bay Partnership, the fish species black drum – a member of the Sciaenidae family, categorized by the throbbing or drumming sound they emit – is most often found locally in…
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•May 16, 2024
Beach Haven Mooring Ordinance Repealed
It’s back to the drawing board for an ordinance adopted late last month by the Beach Haven Borough Council that set requirements for mooring boats in the borough’s riparian grant area at the corner…
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•May 16, 2024
Surf and Weather Have Been Depressing But Better Days Ahead
As we’ve muddled through May with the fireplace on, trying to keep Mom warm on Sunday and get our punch list done in the wind and rain before the unofficial start of summer, there’s been some news…
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•May 16, 2024
Barnegat High School Has an Answer to ‘The Voice’
While ‘The Voice’ and ‘American Idol’ are getting down to the nitty gritty as to who this season’s winners will be, the audience in the Barnegat High School auditorium were all focused on six…
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•May 14, 2024
New Parking Lot Unveiled in Harvey Cedars
In an effort to relieve parking issues in the downtown area and support the business community, Harvey Cedars has created a new public parking lot on West 80th Street.
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•May 13, 2024
Beach Pathways Advisory Committee Has Plan to Right Wrongs
The Barnegat Light Taxpayers Association and concerned residents have formed an advisory committee to address the restoration and maintenance of vegetation along the boardwalk pathways that lead to…
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•May 12, 2024
Contested GOP Primary Could Produce First Ship Bottom Councilwoman in Decades
Not since Pat Adair was a candidate for the Ship Bottom Borough Council 27 years ago has a woman run for a seat on the governing body. Until now.
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•May 10, 2024
Consecutive Life Sentences for Daughter Convicted in Surf City Double Slaying
A little more than two months after being convicted in the double homicide of her father and his longtime companion at his Surf City bayfront home, a Pennsylvania woman was sentenced to two…
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•May 10, 2024
Long Beach Township Swears in New Police Chief
After 30 years with the Long Beach Township Police Department, Kevin Mahon retired last month from his position as chief of police. On Friday, May 3, former captain Ed Bernhard was promoted to fill…
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•May 9, 2024
Oystercatcher Pair Makes a Go of Nesting on Ocean Beach
Among the gulls swooping and foraging on an ocean beach in The Dunes is a rarer avian sight: a pair of orange-beaked, longish-legged American oystercatchers with an active nest site in this section…
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•May 9, 2024
Beach Haven Approves New Development for Silver Sun Site
Another Beach Haven landmark will soon fall to the wrecking ball as the Silver Sun Mall will make way for a mixed commercial/residential development.
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•May 9, 2024
Southern Regional Golfers Set School Record in Sectional Tournament
It’s been more than 20 years since the Southern Regional golf team has contended for a state sectional championship. Coach Jeff Reilly’s Rams on Monday, May 6, made a run at it.
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•May 9, 2024
Former Kmart’s Future Back on Table After Saker ShopRites Purchases Manahawkin Commons
It may be the most talked-about property in Stafford Township, and that discussion might heat up over the summer. The Manahawkin Commons shopping plaza, home to the former Kmart store that has been…
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•May 9, 2024
Learn About Tuckerton Wireless‘ Role in World War I
The Tuckerton Historical Society invites the public to attend a presentation happening at the Giffordtown Schoolhouse Museum and learn about the borough’s role in World War I on Saturday, May 11 at 2…
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•May 9, 2024
Jason Carroll Takes Over as Barnegat Police Chief
May 1 marked the changing of the guard for the Barnegat Police Department as Jason Carroll was sworn in as chief in a ceremony at the township recreation center. He replaces the recently retired…
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•May 1, 2024
Looking to Bag One of Them-There Soy Turkeys; Atlantic Shores North Takes a Lighthouse View
CHURCHLY GOOFING: I ran into the wife of arguably the most dedicated hunter I have ever known. We’ll call her Anna and him Allen, mainly to cover the identity of this wonderful lady, who I was about…
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•May 1, 2024
A Flurry of Activities Helps Keep Barnegat Bay Clean
On a recent Friday morning, sounds of a horn followed by a siren and peals of laughter from young students rang out against the quiet stillness of Barnegat Bay as a group of first-graders from the…
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•May 1, 2024
Schooner’s Wharf for Sale for $15 Million
Schooner’s Wharf, one of Beach Haven’s most iconic attractions, has gone on the market.
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•May 1, 2024
Beach Haven Celebrating 150th Anniversary
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the founding of Beach Haven, and the Queen City will celebrate this milestone with a Heritage Day on Saturday, May 18.
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•May 1, 2024
Beach Haven Adopts Mooring Regulations for Pearl Street
An ordinance adopted by the Beach Haven Borough Council at an agenda meeting last week will set requirements for mooring boats in the borough’s riparian grant area at the corner of Pearl Street and…
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•May 1, 2024
Long Beach Township Bolsters Clam Cove Shoreline With Help From New Jersey Resources
Staff from New Jersey Resources traveled to the Long Beach Township Field Station in Holgate last Friday, April 26, to help bag shells accumulated via the Oyster Recycling Program, an initiative…
