A proposed bayfront bar and restaurant in Ship Bottom is the latest flashpoint exposing flaws in a two-decade-old state-sanctioned traffic study that drove the multi-year Causeway improvement project, ...

Anchored along the bay, just north of the Causeway in Ship Bottom, lies a quiet residential neighborhood of mostly year-round homes – its calmness surprisingly audible even with the sole exit from ...

Kudos to our Memorial Day weekend crowds. They were not only memorably massive, but outstandingly celebratory, as proven by fully packed pubs, coffee shops, restaurants, churches, marinas, parks, you ...

Last week, the Harvey Cedars Land Use Board approved a subdivision for four single-family homes at the site of the former HCH Real Estate Co. The new homes will be on the four buildable lots on the ...

Russell Griffin began his law enforcement career with the Stafford Township Police Department, and he apparently wants to finish it in Stafford. “This is a great law enforcement agency, and I love it, ...

Maybe there is a new life after all for the Atlantic City International Airport after the demise of its largest carrier, Spirit Airlines. Allegiant Air and Breeze Airlines could replace Spirit as ...

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Beach Haven Marlin and Tuna Club, which has been a mainstay since a group of fishermen who had long fished the area recognized the need for, and benefit of, ...

Hello readers: I’m so excited to introduce a new column in The SandPaper for summer 2026 called “Still Standing.” As a longtime admirer of the vintage homes that dot Long Beach Island – and the lucky ...

Despite the fact that we needed three layers of clothing and a hot thermos to leave the house almost every morning of May on LBI, Memorial Day weekend, the “unofficial start to summer,” is here. And ...

Last column, I went big on El Niño as potentially being an inordinately powerful thunderstorm spawner. Talk of upcoming downpours seemingly flies in the face of this week’s follow-up report, ...

A petition available to sign on the Pinelands Alliance website asks New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherill to enact a three-year moratorium on new data center approvals while the state conducts a comprehensive ...

Just one week after a gray seal pup found in Harvey Cedars last winter was released at Brigantine Inlet following rehabilitation, the Marine Mammal Stranding Center was delighted to see how far she’d ...