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•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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•February 13, 2024
District 9 Legislators to Murphy: Stop the Toll Hikes
In a recent letter to the Murphy administration, District 9 legislators Sen. Carmen Amato and Assemblymen Brian Rumpf and Greg Myhre called on the governor to veto the New Jersey Turnpike Authority…
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•February 12, 2024
Custom Floral Design Brings Welcome Challenges
The three-dimensional art of floral design combines elements of various creative disciplines. In floristry, processing a fresh shipment is like preparing an artist’s palette, but the medium is far…
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•February 11, 2024
Germain Retiring as Barnegat Police Chief
Saying he had “accomplished everything” he had set out to do, Barnegat Police Chief Keith Germain announced his retirement at the township committee meeting Tuesday, Feb. 6.
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•February 10, 2024
Henken Ready to Throw Around Some Dad Jokes, Get to Work as Mayor
Still a young man not out of college for too long, Robert Henken returned to his hometown of Brick in the early 1990s after many years living in Wapheton, N.D., where he had raced motorcycles.
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•February 9, 2024
Beach Haven Library Celebrating Centennial
This year is a very special time for the Beach Haven Public Library: It’s celebrating its 100th anniversary. The first celebration of the milestone is planned on Thursday, Feb. 8 at 2 p.m.
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•February 8, 2024
Southern Regional Girls Swim Squad’s Impressive Stretch Includes State Tourney Win
Summarizing the past nine days for the Southern Regional girls swim team is easy. What started with another awesome regular season coming to an end continued with some outstanding efforts in the…
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•February 8, 2024
State’s New Storm Drains in Ship Bottom Applauded, But Maintenance Questioned
Whether a remedy is determined to address sand and water issues in the work area for the final phase of the Causeway project in Ship Bottom is unclear, but at least one borough official is hopeful…
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•February 8, 2024
West Creek, Parkertown Communities Mourn Tragic Death of Firefighter, Recycling Supervisor
West Creek resident Tim Hannold, 50, died Wednesday, Jan. 31, when he was crushed in a dumpster at the Northern Recycling Center in Lakewood.
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•February 8, 2024
Eagles Music Will Fly at Surflight Over Presidents’ Day Weekend
Take it easy, take it easy, don’t let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy with two performances by Winslow at Surflight Theatre over the long Presidents’ Day weekend and .
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•February 8, 2024
Southern Regional Fishing Flea Market This Saturday, Feb. 10
Hook some great deals on new and used fishing gear at the Southern Regional High School Fishing Club’s annual Fishing Show, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. this coming Saturday, Feb. 10. The event, held in the…
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•February 8, 2024
20th Annual Super Plunge Set for Saturday, Feb. 10
St. Francis Community Center’s much-anticipated Super Plunge challenges local residents to tap into their inner polar bear and take a leap into the ocean in winter. This year the event – the 20th…
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•February 6, 2024
Primary Learning Center Students Deliver 784 Boxes of Cereal to Fulfill
Surrounded by hundreds of classmates and teachers as well as emergency medical services and police personnel, Lincoln Scofield gave a light, two-handed shove to the first cereal box with Toucan Sam’s…
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•February 5, 2024
Land Use Board Approves Brennan Fuel’s Building Renovation
Long Beach Township’s Land Use Board approved, at a meeting last month, an application from Brennan Fuel LLC to renovate the existing commercial building at 13601 Long Beach Blvd. in Beach Haven…
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•February 4, 2024
It Takes Hard Work, Friends and the Touch of God to Build a Church
On Sunday, Jan. 14 the leadership, congregation and friends of Little Egg Harbor’s New Life Community Church celebrated the 10th anniversary of its building, located at 595 Parkertown Drive, with a…
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•February 2, 2024
Manahawkin Tween Relishes Hard-Knock Life as Orphan Kate in ‘Annie’ National Tour
In a hotel room in Richmond, Va., earlier this month, 11-year-old Addie Jaymes Finley of Manahawkin and her mother, Natalie, reflected on life on the road for a sixth-grader in the national tour of…
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•February 1, 2024
Robert Henken Appointed New Mayor of Stafford Township
It’s official. Stafford Township’s new mayor is Robert Henken.
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•February 1, 2024
NRC to Review Nuclear Plant’s License Termination Plan
The decommissioning operator of the shuttered Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Lacey Township is expected to submit a license termination plan for the former power plant to federal…
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•February 1, 2024
Deaf Barnegat Resident ‘Achieving My Dreams’ With New College ASL Position
Anthony De Franco, the Barnegat Township resident who is known in the community for teaching American Sign Language at the local bay beach, was recently hired as an adjunct American Sign Language…
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•February 1, 2024
Barnegat Bowler Fires First Perfect Game in School History
The 10-pin made A.J. Wolcott sweat a little at the end of his second game on Jan. 25.
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•February 1, 2024
Movie, TV Production Industry Is Economic Booster for Garden State, Local Business People Told
The year ahead will see large-scale movie and television production studios shooting in New Jersey, setting up shop and even setting down roots, which boosts economies at every level with job…
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•February 1, 2024
October Ensemble Stages Chocolate-Covered Murder Mystery, ‘Sweetest Crime’
A brand-new theater production company called October Ensemble, led by the creative team of Dakota Reider and Elle River of Barnegat and Bliss Rubin of Lacey Township, debuts its chocolate-themed…
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•January 30, 2024
‘Hallucinate’ Within an Arriving Word-of-Year Flood; Looking for the Toothiest Critters on the Planet
Hey, Dictionary.com, after much word-usage analysis, has chosen “hallucinate” as its 2023 “word of the year.”
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•January 29, 2024
With Fanciful Gnomes and More, LBI Rotary Club’s Holiday Gala Is Record-Breaking Success
For the first time in the event’s 38-year history, the Long Beach Island Rotary Club’s Holiday Auction, held Thursday, Dec. 7 at The Mainland Holiday Inn in Manahawkin, exceeded $100,000 in funds…
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•January 27, 2024
Heavy Surf Brings Training Opportunity for Coast Guard
On a dry, sunny January morning, there are few individuals thinking about the thunderous winter storms, like the one earlier this month, that blow across Long Beach Island, bringing winds, tidal…
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•January 26, 2024
Southern Regional Boys, Girls Swim Squads Snag County Crowns Again
For the first time in several seasons, the Southern Regional boys swim team may not have been considered the favorite going into the Ocean County Championships. The Rams are a bit of a young team…
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•January 25, 2024
Accumulating Snow: What a Concept
With winter precipitation limited to a few dustings last year, snow shovels and snowplows were able to stay in hibernation. But that all changed last week, with fresh white stuff falling on Tuesday…
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•January 25, 2024
E.J. School Expansion Expected to Begin Next Year
“The Way Forward” is more than three words marking a subpage of the Long Beach Island Consolidated School District’s website. Those words represent the district’s future, and school officials have…
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•January 25, 2024
New Bayside Pastor Rose From the Depths of Despair
On New Year’s Eve, the Rev. Ken Carlson became the new lead pastor at Bayside Chapel in Barnegat Township. And to mark that occasion, the retiring lead pastor, the Rev. Dave Ridder, literally passed…
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•January 25, 2024
A Couple More MegaSwells and a Milestone; Seeing Where El Niño Takes Us
Thirty-three degrees and raining might be about the most miserable weather New Jersey can get.
