Surflight Theatre and the New Jersey Maritime Museum recently announced winners in the inaugural Beach Haven Gingerbread House contest. The category winners were business, Okie’s Butcher Shop; school, ...

While nothing is concrete right now, Stafford Township officials are making moves to acquire grant funding that could pave the way for a skate park at the Bay Avenue Community Center. During its Dec.

Eleven days after shooting down its own proposed short-term rental ordinance, the Ship Bottom Borough Council rejected another proposal before a standing-room-only crowd at the firehouse Dec. 30 at ...

The second seat from the left behind the dais in the Ship Bottom meeting room, like the others, was vacant Dec. 30 after the council moved its final meeting of the year to the firehouse to accommodate ...

Little Egg Harbor resident Martha Hickson didn’t intend to become a driving force in a nationwide movement for free speech. But as groups relentlessly pushed for the removal of books from the school ...

Maybe someday our elected officials will work together for the betterment of the voters. However, that’s not today. Recently, our president announced that inflation was under control. I have ...

Tuckerton Councilmen Sam Colangelo and Mike Dupuis, both re-elected in November, were sworn into office at the borough’s reorganization meeting on Jan. 1. “I’m very happy to have been elected again, ...

Surflight Theatre is thrilled to be continuing their 2025 Concert Series with the yearly Bubbly Bash with David Clark! Back by popular demand, David Clark returns to Surflight Theatre on New Year’s ...

Barnegat Light Mayor Ed Wellington said the borough will not join the other Island towns in what he called “a movement to modify the school tax process, structure and formula, to base it more on the ...

Formerly of Oakland and now a full-time Long Beach Island resident, Skip Van Wert first picked up wood and carving tools in 1989 to see how it felt, and he never stopped. In the ensuing decades his ...

St. Francis of Assisi Church, at 4700 Long Beach Blvd. in Brant Beach, has a new seasonal addition to the parish grounds: a life-size Nativity set, which, said The Rev. Francis DiSpigno, church pastor ...

Saturday began as a typical weekend day before Christmas. I was up and out to get the last-minute shopping done, then home to send out the final few Christmas cards. A few minutes allowed for a quick ...