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Privately Booked Rentals No Longer Subject to 11.6 Percent Levy Trenton — Private homeowners no longer face paying the so-called Airbnb tax for renting out their accommodations, under a fix …

Beach Haven — There was some drama at Surflight Theatre late last week. Serious drama. An actor was onstage rehearsing for “Matilda,” the theater’s current mainstage offering. He’s a healthy, …

In the summer of 1969, 50 years ago, there were an estimated 350,000 to half a million people who attended the three-day music festival in upstate New York – Woodstock. …

Barnegat Light — No further closures due to water quality have been reported at the Barnegat Light bay bathing beach at 25th Street since the bathing area was closed twice …

Long Beach Island — In the years since Superstorm Sandy, which wiped out many older homes and garages full of storage, the value (sentimentally, at least) of LBI memorabilia, collectibles …

Harvey Cedars — Thanks to new technology on its borough website, harveycedars.org, people thousands of miles away from Harvey Cedars can still get a daily view of the ocean and …

BARNEGAT LIGHT — Noreen McManus almost didn’t compete in the Barnegat Light Ocean Mile Swim on July 27. “I just signed up two days ago,” said the 67-year-old from Madison. “I …

BARNEGAT LIGHT — “Ol’ Barney” draws visitors to the north end of Long Beach Island like a magnet any day, but on National Lighthouse Day, he’ll be extremely attractive. Barnegat …

LONG BEACH ISLAND — Two incumbent Long Beach Island Consolidated Board of Education members are running to retain their seats on the panel, while a third has opted to run …

SURF CITY — This week I’m committed to going public with a long-festering Island issue. You’ll want to read this. In fact, over 90 percent of all LBI aficionados have …

SHIP BOTTOM — While Ship Bottom borough officials were asked to defend their decision to appeal the land use board’s approval for a use variance at the vacant CVS site, …

SURF CITY, NJ — It may be only July 2019, but the 2020 election season has already begun, and not just at the presidential level. Two Republicans have already announced …

Sen. Christopher Connors, Assemblyman Brian Rumpf and Assemblywoman DiAnne Gove of the 9th Legislative District are criticizing the funding cuts to local school districts solidified in the FY 2020 state …

LONG BEACH ISLAND, NJ — In spite of unsafe conditions created by speeding boaters, the U.S. Coast Guard removed and replaced more than 10 broken channel markers in the Intracoastal …

Stafford Township — Work to install roughly 3,400 linear feet of fencing on both sides of Route 72 along the right shoulder on Bonnet Island to protect the Northern diamondback …

26 Seats Will Be Up for Election in November Surf City, NJ — There will be 26 school board seats up for grabs in Southern Ocean County this November. Primary …

Beach Haven and Tuckerton share a long history together. It was Rueben Tucker who started the first seaside boarding house in 1765 on Tucker’s Island, a long-gone island off the …

Ship Bottom, NJ — A trifecta of traffic and weather events this summer is highlighting what anyone who has been on Long Beach Island and tried to leave has experienced …

Loveladies, NJ — Although many things have changed on Long Beach Island over the past 71 years, one has been constant: the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and …

Barnegat Light, NJ — As she knocked down putt after putt through the “Low Tide” course of Jen’s Links at LBI, Magdalema Sulich didn’t seem intimidated in the least. In …