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•February 3, 2022
Southern Regional Swim Squads Again Finish Regular Season in Perfect Shape
For a third straight season, the Southern Regional boys and girls swim teams finished the regular seasons undefeated as Shore Conference Class A South champions. On Jan. 25, coach Patrick Craig’s…
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•February 3, 2022
Stafford Police Now Hiring; Illegal Gun Found During DWI Arrest; Two Suspected Shoplifters Nabbed Leaving TJ Maxx
The Stafford Police Department is hiring. Applications must be submitted online by Feb. 25.
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•February 3, 2022
Sandbox Café Owners Focus on Future in Surf City Following Ship Bottom Location Closing
For those expecting pre-pandemic normality to return to Long Beach Island this summer, it won’t and here’s why: The Sandbox Café, a mainstay on the Boulevard in Ship Bottom since the early 21st…
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•January 31, 2022
Coast Guard Buoy Removal Offers New Take on Anchor’s Away
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•January 28, 2022
County Ready for Blizzard Conditions
The county says it’s “prepared“ for blizzard conditions, in an announcement sent out on Friday, Jan. 28, as the start of forecasted heavy snow loomed hours away.
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•January 28, 2022
Betty White Challenge Is Windfall for Local Animal Shelters
Actress and animal welfare advocate Betty White’s 100th birthday was Monday, Jan. 17. To honor her legacy, animal lovers the world over donated to shelters in her memory. The Betty White Challenge on…
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•January 27, 2022
HopSauce Is Back June 18
Save the date of June 18 for the seventh HopSauce Festival, set to return to Beach Haven this year after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID crisis.
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•January 27, 2022
New JCTA, New Emphasis on LBI Concerns
With the new year on Long Beach Island comes a new Joint Council of Taxpayers’ Associations of LBI.
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•January 27, 2022
Fisherman’s Headquarters Owner ‘Lured’ into St. Francis Pool for Tackle Test
Greg Cudnik, owner of Fisherman’s Headquarters in Ship Bottom, had planned to test cast and film a new lure in the Barnegat Bay. He headed west with the tackle – the Nomad Shikari, from an Australian…
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•January 27, 2022
Light in the Darkness; Assessing All Seriousness of Winter Surfing in New Jersey
The other day, a dead rhododendron flower blew east down the street. When the wind switched the next day, it blew west. The dried-up flower of summer (clipped after the season for best results in the…
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•January 27, 2022
As Pandemic Persists, the Greater the Toll on Healthcare Facilities, Staff
Cases of COVID-19 have decreased throughout Ocean County recently, but numbers are still relatively high, and the pandemic continues to strain healthcare facilities and their staff. The Long Beach…
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•January 27, 2022
ACE Planning Power Grid Upgrades at Beach Haven Station
Atlantic City Electric recently announced that as part of a broader strategic effort to better serve Long Beach Island customers and build a smarter, stronger and cleaner energy grid, the utility…
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•January 27, 2022
Real Immersion Experience for Rescuer This January
Bob Selfridge is no stranger to cold sea water, but this year his immersion in January has an educational edge to it.
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January 27, 2022
Mystery Beachgoers in Photo Identified
Mystery solved! The LBI beachgoers in a photograph published last week that, among a whole roll of film, went to the wrong person back in 2004 have been identified. Thanks to our readers, who helped…
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•January 27, 2022
Southern Regional Boys Crush Competition at Ocean County Swim Meet
During the past four seasons, Southern Regional boys swim coach Patrick Craig’s main priority has been to get the Rams under his watch to work hard and believe they can achieve great things in the…
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•January 27, 2022
Chris Fritz Honors Neil Young at Buckalew’s
Buckalew’s Tavern in Beach Haven was brimming with a motley bunch on Friday night, many of them football fans who came to enjoy dinner and some drinks during the San Francisco vs. Green Bay playoff…
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•January 25, 2022
Shore Environmental Groups Praise New Recycled Content Law
Environmental groups and others throughout New Jersey are applauding Gov. Phil Murphy’s signing on Jan. 18 of Bill A4676/S2515, known as the Recycled Content Law. The measure establishes increased…
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•January 23, 2022
Southern Regional, Stockton University Partnership a ‘Unique Opportunity’ for Students
While the main highlight of the most recent Southern Regional Board of Education meeting two weeks ago was the presentation by Adele Berardi and Kendra Stefanski regarding the colossal success of…
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•January 22, 2022
Cypher Tattooist Keeps It Real
When artist Tommy Giblin was 18 and started getting tattoos, the shop atmosphere – the smell of the soap, the loud buzz of tattoo machines, the music – made a strong sensory imprint. From there he…
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•January 21, 2022
Honored by Devils, Stafford Youth Learned a Lot During Leukemia Battle
Had Lucas Files not endured a battle with leukemia, it’s very likely he wouldn’t be the young man he is right now.
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•January 20, 2022
No Fear of Blood Freezes for Winter Flounder; Island Foxes Take Part in Revolutionary War
That was a pretty good gale we just had, though it was more forecasting fury than actual sky fury.
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•January 20, 2022
Ocean County Library Gets Grant for New Stafford Branch Building
New Jersey will give Ocean County $4.8 million toward the cost of building a new 19,700-square-foot library in Stafford Township, designed by architectural firm Yezzi Associates of Toms River. The…
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•January 20, 2022
Top 20 SandPaper News Stories of 2021
After 2020 and COVID-19, everybody was hoping for a fresh start, a better year. Well, how did that work out?
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•January 20, 2022
Joey D, Johnny B. Keep Popular Oldies Band Alive
The threesome that made up Joey D’s Rockin’ Oldies Band is now a twosome. But that has not at all stopped the band from playing local gigs with their party-style repertoire of doo-wop, Motown, R&B…
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•January 20, 2022
Barnegat Mayor Now Wears a Principal’s Hat
Not only did Alfonso Cirulli begin the new year as mayor of Barnegat Township, but he also officially became the new administrator/principal at Lighthouse Christian Academy, a private school…
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•January 20, 2022
Interior Department Is Leasing More Offshore Land to Wind Energy Companies
As part of the Biden administration’s efforts to combat climate change, on Jan. 12, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will hold a wind energy…
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•January 18, 2022
2021 Another Successful Year for NJ’s Bald Eagles
New Jersey’s bald eagles begin their courtships and nest improvements in early January, then lay eggs up until about early March, caring diligently for their young when they hatch several weeks…
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•January 17, 2022
2022 Could Be the 2021 We Always Wanted … Probably … Maybe?
I can never be sure who reads Liquid Lines, especially in January, and the first column of the year. But I have a feeling this will reach a good number of eyeballs since half of Ocean County is…
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•January 16, 2022
Garden Club of LBI Unveils ‘Recycling Hero’
As an organization, the Garden Club of Long Beach Island prides itself on focusing not just on green thumbs, but on various environmental issues as well.
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•January 15, 2022
A Little Coyote Chatter Never Gets Old; The Eagles Have Landed Again and Again
I was actually talking to myself, though I’ll also aim an equally sincere “Welcome back” toward all y’all – and anyone else who stumbles in here for 2022.
