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 ...

Officials in Barnegat Light will consider bestowing a name on the most recently washed-up dead whale: a young male endangered fin whale measuring 51 feet in length and weighing about 25 tons, ...

As spring arrives in Surf City, revealing scarred beaches recovering from a brutal winter and tumultuous fall, the potential for federal funding in the next federal fiscal budget could support vital ...

I wrote the first half of this week’s column while sitting at the light on Central Avenue and Eighth Street in Ship Bottom. I was headed southbound when I got caught at the red light. I made that ...

Major exterior renovations are in store for the Beach Haven Public Library as the borough is finalizing the process to put the project out to bid. Borough Manager Sherry Mason said that the exterior ...

The Ship Bottom Land Use Board was expected to consider an application at its March 17 meeting that would, if approved, transform the now-closed Dollar General building into a state-of-the-art indoor ...

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 ...

Little Egg Harbor Township introduced its 2026 municipal budget at the township committee meeting on March 12, with total general appropriations amounting to $28,869,990. The budget represents a ...

The Barnegat Township Committee recently introduced a municipal budget of $37,259,261 for 2026-27, approximately $1.8 million higher than what was spent last year. Thomas Lombarski, chief financial ...

For the first time in years, almost 10 miles of bottleneck traffic on Route 72 that snarled motorists on multiple roadways around the region for hours recently wasn’t related to the final phase of the ...

In a bit of escapism this week, I’m steering the column away from the heavier topics of recent weeks – dead birds, ocean bottom mining, broken elbows – by doing some virtual traveling. The visdeurbel, ...

I am writing in response to Surf City Mayor Hodgson’s thoughtful commentary in last week’s SandPaper concerning Long Beach Island’s membership in the Southern Regional School District (SRSD). Mayor ...