Editor’s Desk: A discordant note on a solemn day
A few hours before heading over to cover Ocean City’s 9-11 ceremonies last week, I was driving behind an SUV with a couple of political bumper stickers. On any other day the stickers would have merited little more than a raised eyebrow. Whenever Sept. 11 rolls around, the day isn’t quite the same. We are […]
Our View: Wonderland Pier announcement sad day for Ocean City
The exact timing was unexpected, but it was not a complete surprise that Jay Gillian would announce the closing of Wonderland Pier, the amusement park that has anchored the north end of the boardwalk business district for nearly 60 years and been part of Gillian family boardwalk amusements for nearly a century. The clock has […]
Another View: Past time to act on coastal resilience at Jersey Shore
For the climate conscious among us, concerns about the coastline in this state we’re in ramp up with the arrival of tropical storm season each August. You don’t have to be a worry wart to wonder how our beloved shore towns will fare in the face of sea level rise or to view disaster films […]
Editor’s Desk: Surgery prompted stories on customer care aspect
Editor’s note: See related stories. At the end of September 2023, I had a full shoulder replacement. Dr. Dante Marconi, an orthopedist with Shore Physicians Group, performed the surgery at Shore Medical Center. I met him through the newspaper when I did a story about pickleball and wanted to talk to an orthopedic surgeon about […]
Another View: Cape May County right to oppose wind turbines
By LEONARD C. DESIDERIO Beginning in 2021, the Board of County Commissioners of Cape May County took the position that we should oppose the offshore wind project Ocean Wind One, being pursued by the Danish corporation Orsted. The more we learned about offshore wind, the more objectionable the project became. Ocean Wind One would have […]
Bag ban worked; now ban neonicotinoids
Where have all the bag trees gone? Next time you’re on a walk through the neighborhood, look up. You probably won’t see flimsy bags with looped handles fluttering against the blue of the midsummer sky the way you used to. Gov. Murphy’s 2020 law banning stores from giving shoppers free plastic bags – the kind […]
Piping plover chick surprised everyone
To the Editor: This piping plover chick surprised all, discovered at around 9 days old, with both parents, on a section of beach that would never have been anticipated to be a piping plover nesting area, boardwalk on one side, crowded sand beach on the other. NJ Fish & Wildlife quickly took actions to protect […]
Our View: A terrible day for democracy
This is not a hopeful day. A young gunman’s attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump at the Republican’s Pennsylvania rally Saturday will have ramifications reverberating around the country, stoking the anger and division that is already at a fever pitch. It is a stroke of luck that Trump survived. The gunman’s bullet pierced his […]
How about a pecan roll at Stuckey’s?
Are we there yet? That phrase has been uttered by countless kids from the backseat of a car on road trips. A midday break for a restroom stop, a tank of gas, lunch and maybe a toy to occupy youngsters for the afternoon was a good idea during long rides. In the 1960s and 1970s, […]
For ospreys, too soon for a victory dance?
If it’s true there are no second acts in American lives, as F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote, ospreys never got the memo. The raptors, once endangered in New Jersey, still perch uneasily on the state’s list of threatened species, but they’ve staged an impressive comeback since the 1970s, when the pesticide DDT caused their population […]