Sales & Summer Rentals
It’s been over a hundred years since a passenger ferry connected Tuckerton and Beach Haven, but thanks to a partnership between municipalities and the Southern Ocean County Chamber of Commerce, a free service is set to begin on Aug. 5. Tuckerton Seaport trustee Paul Hart said a 25-seat pontoon boat, named the Pohatcong II, is being […]
The countdown to the unofficial start of the summer season is on for most of the state as winter hung on a little longer than most would have liked. On Long Beach Island, it’s already arrived with the lowering of speed limits and the dreaded turning on of traffic signals up and down Long Beach Boulevard. […]
Long Beach Township’s Board of Commissioners announced at its meeting earlier this month the Island-wide shuttle service, which was previously free, will now require riders to purchase a ticket. As word has spread of the new fares, residents have debated the decision, with many people mentioning they’d like the option to buy a season pass. […]
Photo by: Ryan Morrill Long Beach Township is giving each household in the municipality two reusable bags. Last November, Long Beach Township adopted an ordinance to prohibit businesses in the municipality from distributing single-use plastic carryout bags. Officials decided on a six-month phase-in, meaning the bag ban is set to take effect next week, on […]
If you haven’t already done it, it might be time to start putting reusable bags in your vehicle for either planned shopping trips or the last-minute ones that can hang up even the most conscientious shopper. In just over a month, Long Beach Township businesses will no longer offer single-stream plastic bags to customers under […]
Apr 02, 2018 Mother Nature may be slow to catch on, but spring has arrived in the Long Beach Island region, and the change in the traffic pattern on the Causeway to the 18-mile sandbar is all the proof anyone living, working or visiting here needs. George Harms Construction Co., the state Department of Transportation’s […]
In the 17th and 18th centuries, residents and visitors to the Jersey Shore had little in the way of weapons to combat the world’s most dangerous creature: the disease-spreading mosquito. They lit wet fires outside their doorways in the evenings to repel the intruders (screens had not been yet been invented) and wore long sleeves, […]
Effects of winter storms Quinn and Riley earlier this month included more than flooding, debris in the roadways, blown-over trash bins, and an accidental sandbar. In Surf City, it suspended much-needed road work on three phases of improving Barnegat Avenue. At the Surf City Borough Council’s monthly meeting March 14, Councilwoman Jacqueline Siciliano said phases three and […]
Beachfill work and all demobilization are now expected to conclude by the end of March in Holgate and Beach Haven. Contractor Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co. originally anticipated wrapping up mid-month, but, as N.J. Department of Environmental Protection Press Officer Lawrence Hajna explained, “weather has pushed things back a bit.” The $18.4 million contract awarded […]
Three redevelopment projects along the entrance corridor to Long Beach Island, stretching all the way from the base of the Causeway to the Atlantic Ocean in a borough that isn’t even 2 square miles, promise to redefine the look and feel of Ship Bottom. Although the full scope of plans for the 100-room Drifting Sands […]
