Sometimes, fate has a way of bringing people together in the most unexpected and beautiful ways. That’s exactly what happened for Danny Maurus and Abigail Lohrmann, a Harvey Cedars couple whose love ...

There are some things that make writing a surf column particularly enjoyable. The first would be good waves. Those have been hard to come by in 2025. The second would be great community events.

Cole Cramer has plenty of big meets in his future, considering he’ll be blazing a path on the track for the University of Tennessee by this time next year. Still, winning a state championship and ...

All six Island mayors are among signatories urging the N.J. Board of Public Utilities to vacate the 2021 offshore wind renewable energy credits it awarded to Atlantic Shores for its project 1 and ...

Former Assemblyman and 2025 gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli, who narrowly lost to Gov. Phil Murphy in 2021, seems to be increasing his lead in what has become a crowded Republican field that ...

Through Project RedBand, young ospreys on Barnegat Bay are affixed with red auxiliary field-readable bands to enable future tracking. According to Ben Wurst, senior wildlife biologist with Conserve ...

Little Egg Harbor resident Peter Papa has been perfecting his craft for 70 years, and has seen the fruits of his labor recognized. His model ships are on display in museums, galleries, and homes of ...

I confess that I need AC to sleep on the hottest days of summer. My electric bill for one summer month in 2024 was $700. With a 20% proposed increase, that means in the summer 2025 it will be $840 for ...

This past week, while at worship, I heard a member of the preaching team share a moving sermon on mercy. Forty-nine years ago during my first interview with a church’s pastoral search committee, one ...

The winter season has now been fully thrust upon us with intense storms, high winds and plunging temperatures replete with ice and snow. Real winter living on the Island allows us to experience and ...

Back in the 1970s NHL hockey was a much tougher sport with teams such as the Philadelphia Flyers, nicknamed the “Broad Street Bullies,” and the “Big Bad Boston Bruins” playing very physical games, ...