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Lifeguard in Training Programs Provide Youngsters With Lifelong Benefits
7+ hour, 43+ min ago (860+ words) Ocean lifeguarding is serious business in New Jersey. Just look around Long Beach Island during the summer months. The beaches are filled with professionals who are highly trained, capable of saving a life amid a variety of situations and conditions....
Coming Back From Near Death, Brendan Craig Paddles Because He Can
9+ hour, 40+ min ago (1023+ words) There's a saying, "as serious as a heart attack." In this case, it was a stroke. It was December 2022. Brendan Craig of Manahawkin was in decent shape for a 39-year-old when he had a stroke while duck hunting with his…...
Tech Sets Sail as Innovations Make Boat Launch Access a Breeze
4+ hour, 21+ min ago (975+ words) Long Beach Island's winter soundtrack this year was shaped by the scraping sound of plows hitting ice, a stark contrast to the soft rhythm of waves lapping against the hulls of bobbing boats on Barnegat Bay during summer. While the…...
Trout Fishing a Big Thing in New Jersey
3+ week, 14+ hour ago (965+ words) Every spring, freshwater anglers in New Jersey eagerly anticipate the opening of the state trout season. This year that date is April 11 at 8 a.m. The N.J. Department of Fish and Wildlife is stocking trout into two Ocean County lakes, Prospertown Lake in…...
Chuck Donohue Jr. Leaving Southern Regional School District in July
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (383+ words) It wasn't on the Southern Regional Board of Education's agenda to start the day. Rather, it slipped in during the closed session before the school board's public meeting on April 1, and it wasn't an April Fool's prank. Chuck Donohue Jr....
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3+ day, 2+ hour ago (11+ words) Dominance in Circle, Run Production Will Be Catalysts for Barnegat'thesandpaper.net...
Recalling My Show Biz Days as Dead Body Number Three
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (915+ words) I was Dead Body Number Three. No surname, no identifiable scars. Truth be told, I was not an entire body. They had buried my legs and attached a prosthetic to my rib case which purported to show the innards of…...
Island-Born Freda Fackler, 103, Remembered
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (711+ words) Woven into the tapestry of Long Beach Island's history was a woman named Freda Benestad Fackler: Barnegat Light native, alumna of the one-room schoolhouse and Barnegat High School, Southern Regional High School physical education teacher and coach, ceramic artist, business…...
Crowd at School Meeting Appeals for LEH Teacher Aides
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (1836+ words) The Little Egg Harbor Board of Education meeting on Tuesday, March 24 was extremely contentious and exhausting, lasting 5 hours and 17 minutes. The crowd was the largest this reporter, who has covered the district for many years, has ever seen. And members…...
Tee Off to Raise Funds for LBI Historical Museum
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (192+ words) The Long Beach Island Historical Association and Museum in Beach Haven is signing up participants for a golf outing fundraiser on Monday, May 4, at the LBI National Golf and Resort in Little Egg Harbor. The fundraiser is part of the…...