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 ...

The fluid elegance. The strength. The romantic choreography and daring feats. Both sport and art form, figure skating is easy to love. An 18-second video was posted to the Friends of Barnegat ...

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, ...

The road that leads to Wildflowers in the Woods, Cricket Luker and company’s newest venture in Manahawkin, is dirt. The venue is a hidden treasure, as it were, not to stumble upon, but to seek out.

The inflatable rat set up recently in front of the Beach Haven municipal building has been taken down, at least for the time being. Laborers International Union of North America Local 77 in Ewing ...

Since 1986, Beach Haven’s swimwear, clothing and accessories store, Sur La Plage, has served the community’s needs in beach apparel and gear. Now the building and business are changing hands and an ...

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 ...

Winter 2026 will be a season we talk about around the fire pit for years to come. Well, that’s if we still have fire pits in the future … Here’s hoping that in 2036, tech companies don’t have us all ...

Saying the N.J. Department of Environmental Protection overstepped its authority in adopting a controversial resiliency measure, the state Legislature has moved to curb its actions by demanding the ...

Mother Nature played a cruel joke on the area this February. Local residents had been very pleased to see that almost all the snow from last month’s snow and ice storm had melted away. But all that ...

It snowed decently enough. However, and not meaning to be demeaning, the much pre-ballyhooed blizzard lacked a certain pizzazz – nothing near what one expects from a “cyclone bomb.” Nonetheless, some ...

Last week’s letter titled “Sisters Wrong About ICE” was difficult to read. How does it happen that professed Catholics come up with such different assessments of ICE? Most of us would probably agree ...