For some reason, I feel compelled to write about heat this week, possibly due to its being unseasonably torrid, hotter than a witch’s … wait, that doesn’t work, does it? Admittedly it’s officially ...

Mother Nature stopped playing games with the spring weather just in time for the arrival of summer on the calendar and on the Island. For crews from U.S. Coast Guard Station Barnegat Light, that meant ...

A mother and her newborn were rescued from atop the Barnegat Lighthouse, and a third person was extricated from the towering structure after falling down a flight of stairs and suffered a femur ...

The Long Beach Township Land Use Board has approved the application from the owner of the property at 8200 Long Beach Blvd. in Brighton Beach – formerly Kubel’s Too – to construct a two-story ...

Emily Evans couldn’t stop smiling throughout Southern Regional High School’s commencement ceremony. “My parents told me afterward that they could tell I was ready to go forward,” said the recent ...

Origin stories are perhaps some of the most interesting tales behind local businesses. For the most recent addition to the LBI business community, Brielle’s Shells, the origins were everything. “I was ...

Where in the world can you see a humpback whale, a hip hop show, a rainbow and a burst of flora all in the same weekend? They can show up at barrier islands at the same time. And it would mean that ...

Long Beach Island Consolidated School District graduates and families as well as members of the local community are invited to visit the LBI Grade School from 5 to 7 p.m. next Monday, June 30, to tour ...

This year’s Beach Haven Art Walk brought dozens of visual artists and artisans to the Queen City to display and sell their works of art in two and three dimensions, but one, Michael Clineman, stood ...

As summer is about to begin, my imagination stirs with thoughts of what lies ahead and wondrous experiences of early season days in past years. This brings me to a mundane Monday in early summer last ...

When my wife and I returned from a vacation the first week of May, we noticed a marked decrease in water pressure. I wrongly attributed it to the repeated disruption of the roads up and down Long ...

Russell Schanker has a story he likes to tell. “About 20-something years ago, I was a lot younger and able to make furniture deliveries myself,” Schanker explained. “So, I was delivering to a woman, ...