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•July 3, 2021
Surf City Business Owners: Decisions Impact Every Aspect of Community
A quick search for information about Long Beach Island brings a multitude of definitions from a beach lover’s paradise to barrier island and resort region along the Atlantic Ocean. What is missing…
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•July 2, 2021
Final Phase of Causeway Project Could Begin This Fall in Ship Bottom
Road work on Ninth Street in Ship Bottom intended to stop for the summer a few weeks ago was allowed to continue after officials learned it would be fully completed this month, allowing the state…
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•July 2, 2021
State Board of Public Utilities Awards Projects to Both Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind and Orsted
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities today awarded projects that will provide a combined 2,658 megawatts of offshore wind capacity to EDF/Shell’s Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, off Long Beach…
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•July 1, 2021
Beach Haven Westers Still Battling for Boat Slips
The mystery of the Jennifer Lane boat slips continues in Stafford Township as Gary and Diane Mazzacca of Beach Haven West persist in their mission to prove ownership – although, according to Township…
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•July 1, 2021
Surflight Opening 2021 Mainstage Season With ‘Annie’
Surflight Theatre is opening its 2021 mainstage season on July 3 with a family favorite, “Annie.”
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•July 1, 2021
ReClam the Bay Leads Field Trip to Rutgers Aquaculture Innovation Center
ReClam the Bay, a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the filter feeder shellfish to clean the waters of Barnegat Bay and to increase awareness of bay ecology through public education…
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•July 1, 2021
Fitness and Non-Fitness on LBI; Torpedo Boys Win; Fun Foam Event; Fired Up for the Fourth
Has anyone else had the thought that the Island is split into two very different camps?
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•July 1, 2021
Local Artists Illustrate New ‘Guide to the Jersey Shore’
Pine Shores Art Association’s Guide to the Jersey Shore is a must-have for those new to the area needing some helpful tips on where to go for entertainment, food, park land and playgrounds. The book…
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•June 29, 2021
’60s Beach Kid Life: Nonstop Fun
For me, a child of the ’60s, the last day of school in mid-June was particularly exciting. Mom drove us down the shore from Pennington to our summer home in Beach Haven Crest.
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•June 29, 2021
The ‘Nonsense’ World of Misfit Visuals
In artist Jesse Tomasello’s basement studio/workshop in Ocean Acres, he’s surrounded by paintings in progress, tools and supplies related to his many different creative pursuits, a string of lights…
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•June 27, 2021
Fourth Son Serenades daddy O, Shares Mobile Adventures in Music
Long Beach Island was bumping last Friday night, as evidenced at daddy O’s rooftop patio, brimming with a happy crowd, all engaged in festivity. It was difficult not to be in a good mood, being…
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•June 26, 2021
Excitement for Summer, Longest Days of the Year, Plenty of Swell
Does anyone else feel that when they hit the “Unsubscribe” button on an email, enter their email address and then slam a check down in the box that says “Don’t send me any more emails,” you are…
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•June 25, 2021
Just When You Think You Know the Oceans; White Shark Makes a Thresher Day Greater
I have a new leader for my annual “Who Woulda Thunk It?!” award. I’ll introduce it by boldly ordering the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Arctic oceans to move the hell over and make way for – ta-da! –…
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•June 24, 2021
Army Corps to Dredge Barnegat Inlet This Summer
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is expected to dredge the Barnegat Inlet navigation channel this summer with the sand being placed in the nearshore area off Harvey Cedars in the vicinity of Hudson…
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•June 24, 2021
Surf City Strip Mall to Be Torn Down for Single-Family Homes
Maybe Ray Kinsella, Kevin Costner’s character in “Field of Dreams,” was right: If you build it, they will come. That certainly seems to be true of Surf City Square, a strip mall situated in the…
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•June 24, 2021
Impact of Offshore Wind on Commercial Fishing Industry Discussed
Four-decade scallop fisherman and Viking Village fleet owner Jim Gutowski laid out the scope in size of one offshore wind farm turbine as a backdrop to his talk on “The Impact of Offshore Wind Farms…
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•June 24, 2021
Last Spent Nuclear Fuel Assemblies Removed from Oyster Creek Reactor
The shuttered Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Lacey Township is on track to become the fastest decommissioning nuclear power plant in the nation now that the last multi-purpose canister of…
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•June 24, 2021
‘El Presidente’ and ‘Joey Daps’ Provide Biggy With a Peddie-cure
Aaron Kaminski feels obligated to be the first in line to be a challenger for “Can You Beat Biggy?” So much so that he recently told his new employers he wouldn’t start in his new position at…
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•June 24, 2021
Jim McCabe: Improv Master Takes Final Bow at Southern Regional
At the end of the improvisational class’s performance on June 10, appropriately titled “Yes, And … Curtain,” the students wouldn’t let teacher and adviser Jim McCabe walk off the stage without…
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•June 24, 2021
Pinelands Regional Food Director and His Team Stepped Up to the Plate During Pandemic
There’s a little bit of Herbert Hoover in Michael Simoncini.
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•June 24, 2021
Daina Dale Is Municipal Clerk of the Year
When Daina Dale attended the recent Municipal Clerks’ Association of New Jersey conference, she had no idea of the honor about to bestowed upon her. The Harvey Cedars borough clerk was named the…
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•June 22, 2021
Why the Turtle Crossed the Road, and Needs Help
Eastern diamondback terrapins can smell sand. Their instinct is that strong when seeking a place to lay their eggs.
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•June 20, 2021
Going For a Long Walk Along Long Beach Island’s Beaches
A lone walker striding along the strand, alternating between looking out to sea and observing the houses beyond the dunes. Nothing new there – we have all seen them. The walker usually returns to…
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•June 20, 2021
Southern Regional Sophomore Snatches State Discus Championship
By the time Fabian Gonzalez stepped into the circle for his final throw, he already knew he had won. He still wanted to put an exclamation point on his big victory and even requested the crowd around…
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•June 17, 2021
Coast Guard Suspends Search for Downed Plane Off LBI Pending Further Developments
Hours after receiving a call about a possible downed aircraft that reportedly crashed in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Long Beach Island midmorning Thursday, June 17, the U.S. Coast Guard…
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•June 17, 2021
There Is No Stinkin’ Bonnicut Bridge and Bay: Muffed Up Lyrics Diss the Essential Jersey Shore
Let’s begin with some bee-bop, transistorized, LBI beach trivia fun, by taking a dive into the deepest end of our Island trivia pool. In doing so, I will nobly risk my heavy metal membership card by…
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•June 17, 2021
Business Still Booming for ‘Original Guitar Guy’ Paul Unkert
About half a year following the tragic death of rock ’n’ roll icon Eddie Van Halen, his legend lives on through the famed Frankenstrat, a monster of a guitar created by combining a Northern Ash…
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•June 17, 2021
U.S. Coast Guard Performs Rescue at Tuna Tournament
The U.S. Coast Guard and a good Samaritan rescued six boaters after their boat began taking on water approximately 34 miles east of Atlantic City on Thursday June 10, during the inaugural Beach Haven…
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•June 16, 2021
Surflight, LIFF Earn Awards for Their Creative Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic
Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 was basically a lost year when it came to theater, both live and on film.
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•June 16, 2021
Emphasis on Fun in Upcoming Surf ‘Anti-Contest’ Party
Fifteen years ago, a soft top surfboard, or “foamie,” was considered little more than a pool toy. It was surfing’s version of training wheels (or a wheelchair, depending on the stage of your surfing…
