There’s a particular sound when emergency crews arrive – radio chatter and purposeful footsteps – before the noise fades, and all that’s left is a mental image of a ticking clock. On Monday evening, ...

Jim LaMarco quickly glanced around to the spaces at his sides. He was missing a crucial piece of equipment, and without it he and Shawn Hannon weren’t going to get too far. Meanwhile, several other ...

Then the other night, after a long summer week of work, it hit me. We love these meals mostly because summer is so fleeting. Sometimes it’s about the ingredients – a food grown or caught in season, or ...

Following last year’s Barnegat Light Ocean Mile Swim, Lucas Schiff ended up in the emergency room of a hospital. “Last year, it was really rough and I swallowed a lot of water,” said the 10-year-old ...

Luke Hometchko may fit some of the standard profile for a 10-year-old from Southern Ocean County. He’s a chocolate milk freak, loves his ice cream and enjoys hopping on a quad to go for a spin on some ...

Editor’s Note: This is the fifth in a series on vintage home on Long Beach Island, the people who are preserving them, and the stories that make them special. Unlike most homes on Long Beach Island, ...

The Little Egg Harbor Township Police Department will host National Night Out. The event is free and will feature live music, a K-9 demonstration, a helicopter landing, bounce houses, a petting zoo, ...

Two swimmers were rescued from a rip current in the Atlantic Ocean off Division Street in Surf City last week after hours. The Surf City Volunteer Fire Co. and EMS received a call and was dispatched ...

Long Beach Island homeowners involved in appeals of a civil court judgment are all neighbors on a bayside easement in North Beach called “Friends Way,” where a disagreement over a bulkhead has carried ...

Barnegat High School and the Ocean County Soil Conservation District partnered up last month to create a new native pollinator garden on the school grounds that will provide habitat for bees, ...

The Stafford Township Arts Center will host the tribute “The Linda Ronstadt Experience” at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 30. The tribute stars Tristan McIntosh, who as a 17-year-old finished sixth in ...

I agree with letter writer Eric Svelling (“Narrow-Minded Lines,” 7/8) on Jon Coen’s propensity to inject his TDS into a surfing column. I’ve written to him before about it. His response was it’s his ...