A second Southern Ocean County school district will eliminate full-time paraprofessionals and classroom aides. At its March 23 meeting the Tuckerton Board of Education considered two resolutions that ...

Each year the New Jersey State League of Municipalities hosts an award program to highlight exemplary local government programs that provide novel and practical approaches to solving municipal ...

When John Mazzi headed out for a solo clamming trip April 10 on Barnegat Bay, he had no idea it would end with his overnight rescue amid near-freezing conditions while stranded on a sandbar in shallow ...

After 25 years, the Santaguida family has transferred ownership of Surf City Bait and Tackle to Fred Dumont and family, who posted online March 16 they are “truly honored to carry on what’s been built ...

Barnegat Township resident Larry Adamson’s curiosity was piqued when he saw an advertisement where the Ms. New Jersey Senior America Pageant was seeking contestant entries. Adamson thought he had the ...

The U.S.. That’s worth repeating – the U.S. On Dec. 8, 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered a speech at the United Nations General Assembly titled “Atoms for Peace.” His idea was to shift ...

Why is it “No Turn On Red” at the light where Central Avenue southbound meets West Eighth Street in Ship Bottom? I gotta believe the residents on West Seventh Street don’t love the fact that their ...

Ocean County College students Ellie Dowek, Laura Garzon Salinas, Anne Nyangaga, Anthony Paris and Sabrina Watts have been named semifinalists for the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Cooke Undergraduate ...

How hard it can be to let someone do something for us when we think we can do it ourselves. For instance, most of us would balk at the idea of allowing any person to wash our feet, let alone the son ...

Spring has finally arrived, landing upon quite a blowdown landscape. Be it yards, streetscapes or, most obviously, woodlands, there is an uncommon showing of downed trees and branches. The cause of ...

At a recent meeting, the Ocean County Mayors Association passed a resolution opposing the NJ REAL (Resilient Environments and Landscapes) rules, which were adopted in January. In a resolution, which ...

It’s official. Southern Regional High School’s graduation date has been changed. Two weeks after a powerful nor’easter caused blizzard conditions and dumped more than 16 inches of snow in various ...