Tuckerton’s Mabel Obeng, a 14-year-old who will be a sophomore at Pinelands Regional High School this September, is looking forward to competing as a finalist in a National American Miss New Jersey ...

We come to Beach Haven every summer, and our pups delight in trips to the dog beach, which my kids affectionately call “the doggie bay.” Here are poems inspired by our visits. —N.M. And when the ...

In Ocean County the number of reported dog bites is on the rise. In 2023, 714 were reported. In 2024, that number had increased to 783. In 2025, after just the first six months of the year, a whopping ...

The Department of Defense has approved plans to house immigration detainees at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. Democratic Congressman Herb Conaway, who represents New Jersey’s 3rd Congressional ...

While a chance to end the drought and appoint a N.J. Board of Public Utilities member from the Jersey Shore has existed for more than year, it was punctuated last week amid the resignation of a ...

Several residents of Carroll Avenue in Tuckerton expressed concerns about flooding and various issues in the lagoon at the borough council meeting on Monday, July 21. Beau Borkowski began with a ...

I don’t know about you, but beach season means the coming of shaving, waxing, dieting and pedicures. Oh yes! And the dreaded bathing suit-stuffing competition. If you’re young and firm, please stop ...

The early afternoon was a busy time for the Stafford Township Police Department on July 16, as several arrests were made in separate incidents. At about noon, 46-year-old David Terefenko of Morris ...

What started as the first all-female surf event ever in New Jersey in 2009 with 32 Island-based surfers has become a massive affair with 96 surfers from around the state. The event has grown to have ...

I was recently telling my son a story of when I was a little kid. It was the early ’80s, and my father had taken my brother and me canoeing through the Pines. I should start by saying that for all of ...

The legacy of Stan Nidowicz was front and center at the Surf City Hotel July 12 as friends, family and acquaintances alike came together to celebrate Stanapalooza one final time in honor of a man they ...

For many visitors and locals alike, peeking inside some of Long Beach Island’s most stunning homes is a summer treat itself. But on Wednesday, July 30 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., five beautiful south-end ...