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•August 5, 2021
20 Teen COVID Cases Confirmed as LBI Health Officials Investigate Cluster
The number of teenagers who have contracted COVID-19 with the commonality of attending teen nights at local nightclubs last month is up to 20, according to Long Beach Island health officials.
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•August 5, 2021
New Owners Preserve Tuckerton Lumber, With TLC
In its 90th year, Tuckerton Lumber Co. was sold to new owners, after an amended listing appealed to buyers who would keep the landmark business open.
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•August 5, 2021
Puro Verano Is Pure Summer at SwellColors
Many artists suffer for their art, but not all of them literally bleed. That’s an occupational hazard when glass is the medium of choice.
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•August 5, 2021
Local Bus Drivers and Aides Win National Award
School bus drivers and bus aides at Durham School Services, which serves Pinelands Regional and Little Egg Harbor school districts, have submitted a winning entry in Durham School Services’ National…
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•August 3, 2021
The Wing Is the New Thing in Watersports This Season
If you’ve been even casually observing watersports on LBI for the last decade (or the last five), you’ve seen people riding boards on water. First, they rode them on waves, standing or lying down.…
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•August 1, 2021
Seashore Open House Tour Offers Virtual Tours of Outstanding Homes
The 55th annual Seashore Open House Tour is back at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences in Loveladies in a new socially distanced format, featuring professional videography and…
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•July 31, 2021
Harvey Cedars Rescue Boat Mysteriously Disappears, Then Found
A Harvey Cedars Beach Patrol rescue boat itself had to be rescued when it inexplicably ended up in the ocean.
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•July 30, 2021
Weather Service Confirms EF2 Tornado Hit High Bar Harbor
The National Weather Service confirmed an EF2 tornado with peak winds at 115 mph hit High Bar Harbor on July 29.
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•July 30, 2021
Tornado Leaves Trail of Destruction in High Bar Harbor
“If it was during the day, we would have seen it coming,” marveled the owner of one of 35 damaged houses in the High Bar Harbor section of Long Beach Township the morning after an EF2 tornado skipped…
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•July 30, 2021
NJ State Oyster Shell Recycling Program Takes Cues From Long Beach Township
In honoring the Long Beach Township Oyster Shell Recycling Program with an award for leadership last year, the state Department of Environmental Protection described the initiative, which diverts…
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•July 29, 2021
Disabled Boat Washes Up in Harvey Cedars
A 36-foot trawler-style boat grounded on the Sussex Street beach in Harvey Cedars after experiencing engine failure late Sunday night.
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•July 29, 2021
Coast Guard Helo Ops Training a Team Effort
About 5 miles offshore of Barnegat Light in flat conditions, a Coast Guard crew of five and two visitors waited on a 47-foot motor lifeboat for the hum of rotors to break the silence of the midsummer…
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•July 29, 2021
Walsh Captures Sixth Mariner National Title at Surf City Regatta
Dan Walsh knows a thing or two about winning a regatta on the bay waters near Surf City Yacht Club. The Riverton Yacht Club sailor has won there a bunch of times, after all.
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•July 29, 2021
Sad, Storied Climb to Dancing Stardom Is ‘A Chorus Line’
It doesn’t take a Rockette scientist to know a high-kicking dance line will always enthrall an audience, so it isn’t surprising Surflight Theatre’s production of “A Chorus Line” is a hoofing…
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•July 29, 2021
Bunker Washup From Up Above?; Stingrays Get Cozy With Bathers
There was recently a series of either small fish kills or small fish spills, the latter from commercial vessels. Holgate had a goodly number of DOA bunker/menhaden float in.
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•July 29, 2021
‘Local Color’ Breathes New Life Into LBI’s Monochrome History
A satisfyingly chunky new coffee table book from Down The Shore Publishing brings to life the colorful history of a barrier island, its people and environs, from the 1870s through the 1980s. Local…
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•July 29, 2021
Jetty Coquina Jam Has Grown to Serve Its Purpose and More for the Community; Surfing Makes Olympic Debut
On Sunday, I jumped in the water for a few waves right next to the Jetty Coquina Jam. As I was paddling north against that drift, I passed by two adolescent boys.
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•July 29, 2021
Harvey Cedars Edges Brigantine for Donlon Memorial Tourney Crown
Don Paul Adams has jumped out of many boats during his career as a lifeguard. Very few of those times have been quite as harried as the leap he made into the Atlantic Ocean surf on July 26.
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•July 29, 2021
Barnegat Man, Mom Go Toe to Toe With Biggy This Time
When given the information on where Week 6 of “Can You Beat Biggy?” was to be played, C.J. Reo texted back with a simple message: “Not your best choice because I’ve played at that course more than…
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•July 27, 2021
Little Time Left to Register for Barnegat Light Ocean Mile Swim
Every year, the Barnegat Light Ocean Mile Swim presents a challenge to first-timers and veterans alike. And with just about a week left before it begins, time is winding down to register for this…
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•July 26, 2021
Sounding the Alarm About Bodysurfing Danger
A few weeks ago, I had a visit from my old friend Nick, who was my college roommate. Nick and his family arrived here on Long Beach Island in the midst of a long road trip. We had lunch and began to…
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•July 25, 2021
Dredge Project Seeks to Prove Materials Can Fortify Beaches
In Barnegat Inlet, not far from Coast Guard Station Barnegat Light, the dredge Murden has been at work for nearly two weeks suctioning sand from the seabed before unloading it nearshore off Harvey…
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•July 24, 2021
A Wonderful and Watery Goodbye; Realistic Hurricane Preparedness for Our Coast
“Patrick’s passing has brought all of us great sadness. But take comfort, each of you here and all who knew him, that your friendship made Pat’s short life full beyond measure and gave him great…
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•July 22, 2021
One-Day, 200-Mile Bike Ride – Surf City to Barnegat Light, and Repeat – Raises Money for Cancer Research
At midnight on July 6, two days before his 71st birthday, Glenn Toner climbed onto his bike outside his Surf City home and pedaled north. For the next 17 hours and 20 minutes, he cycled back and…
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•July 22, 2021
NHL Rookie Brings Stanley Cup to LBI for Celebration
On July 7, the Tampa Bay Lightning became just the eighth team since 1926 to win as back-to-back Stanley Cup champions. Nine days later, on July 16, Hotel LBI in Ship Bottom became the first Island…
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•July 22, 2021
Volunteers Install Shell Bags Off Mordecai Island
Last weekend, volunteers with the Mordecai Land Trust and ReClam the Bay planted shell bags around the shoreline of Mordercai Island, off Beach Haven.
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•July 22, 2021
Kolman, Rothstein Lead Way to Victory for Surf City Beach Patrol
Perhaps for next year, the Long Beach Township Beach Patrol should consider renaming its Women’s Invitational Tournament the “Pepper and Julia Show.” After all, when they’re competing, it almost…
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•July 22, 2021
Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind Array Will Steer Clear of LBI for Now
Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind’s array of 111 turbines will be built in the southernmost portion of the company’s federal lease, 12 miles off Absecon Inlet, and probably will not be visible to Long…
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•July 22, 2021
Recreational Boating Incidents Spiked as Public Sought Refuge From Pandemic
The number of recreational boating accidents, injuries and deaths on the water across the country during the COVID-19 pandemic was significantly higher than in 2019, while there was a slight decline…
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•July 22, 2021
Constantine Maroulis and the Frequency
FUN FACT: The actor-singer was the sixth-place finalist on season four of “American Idol,” and he was nominated for a Tony for his role in Broadway’s “Rock of Ages.”
