Gail Travers

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Executive Editor at The SandPaper

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Slow Crawl - The SandPaper

1 week ago | thesandpaper.net | Gail Travers

To the Editor:Last week, I left my home in Harvey Cedars around 8 a.m. and headed off the Island, only to pass a massive line of trucks and vans trying to get onto LBI. Many were clearly marked as plumbers, electricians and contractors. Others were unmarked work vehicles or delivery vans. Most seemed to be headed to jobs on the Island – and all were stuck in a long, slow crawl of traffic. It likely took them 30 to 45 minutes just to get over the bridge.
Another Spectacle

1 week ago | thesandpaper.net | Gail Travers

To the Editor:Donald Trump’s proposed Military Appreciation Day, conveniently scheduled on his birthday, is less about honoring service members and more about glorifying himself. While the spectacle of military parades has been a hallmark of authoritarian leaders, Trump’s past disrespect for the military makes his sudden push for a grand display deeply hypocritical. Rather than demonstrating genuine appreciation, Trump has repeatedly mocked and insulted service members.
Mixed Review - The SandPaper

1 week ago | thesandpaper.net | Gail Travers

To the Editor:The new paint job on the Surf City water tower is outstanding and looks clean and nice with a simple but perfect beach theme design, kudos. Then there’s the bay beach fence. The town removed the broken-down and banged-up chain link fence and replaced it with another chain link fence. While it’s new and clean and straight versus the old one, chain link fences are ugly, outdated and a bit white-trash looking.
Three Ways to Cut Little Egg Harbor’s School Budget

1 week ago | thesandpaper.net | Gail Travers

To the Editor:The following are three common sense proposals to reduce the 2025-26 Little Egg Harbor school budget. This list is not conclusive and serves as a mere recommendation. At the very least, the budget should be broken down and made easily publicly available if it is not already. From what is easily accessible online, there is almost no mention of preschool funding. These proposals are not personal; they are meant to be practical.
A Mother of a Story for a Matriarch on Our Street

1 week ago | thesandpaper.net | Gail Travers |Patty Kelly

Sometimes you meet someone who feels like a mom to you, a mom that you have known all your life even though you just met that person. I call this type of person “a mother from another mother.” This individual is usually someone who makes such an impression on you that every time you see her, it’s like coming home. That’s what it feels like when I sit down for “it’s 5 o’clock somewhere” hour to have a glass of wine with my neighbor Maureen. She is one of the matriarchs on our street on LBI.
Senior Frustrations

1 week ago | thesandpaper.net | Gail Travers

To the Editor:Bravo to Tom Meredith on his letter (“Pay Attention,” 4/30) that brings up the compliancy of Little Egg Harbor seniors attending meetings and voicing their opinion on school taxes. Where I differ is with his statement that “It is very important to pay attention to local politics as they impact us faster and often more deeply than national politics.”Criticism of the school funding formula is not new, and Little Egg has its share over the past few years.
Forces of Nature: It’s Really Not the Water, It’s the Waves

2 weeks ago | thesandpaper.net | Gail Travers |L.J. Wallace Jr.

What are the wild waves sayingSister, the whole day long;That ever amid our playing,I hear but their low lone song. — Joseph Edwards CarpenterOur world is flush with waves. Light, sound, infrared, radio, TV, cell, Wi-Fi, satellite, radars, microwaves, garage door openers, dog fences. If we could see them all we’d be blinded in an electronic fog.
Non-Rich Impact - The SandPaper

2 weeks ago | thesandpaper.net | Gail Travers

To the Editor:I remain shocked at the lack of knowledge of many SandPaper readers of the economics behind the construction, transportation, building, maintenance and final disposition of industrial turbines, also known euphemistically as wind farms. Time and again I have read that it was the “rich” who were against industrial turbines because the windmills would impact their view of the ocean, or something similarly naïve and uninformed.
Pay Attention - The SandPaper

2 weeks ago | thesandpaper.net | Gail Travers

To the Editor:I was very surprised when I attended the recent special public meeting of the Little Egg Harbor Township Board of Education. Even after several informative articles in local papers by Rick Mellerup and substantial public “talk on the street” there were fewer than 50 citizens in attendance to hear and speak to the impending school tax increase of 32.6%. Yes, 32.6%. The majority of the audience was teachers with concerns for the students’ futures as well as their own.
Runtley Meets Another Menace Called Milton

3 weeks ago | thesandpaper.net | Gail Travers

This is another story from Runtley, a Harvey Cedars rescue cat, as told to “Mom” Sandi Appleby of Nokomis, Fla., a former long-time resident of Harvey Cedars. For 28 years she and her husband owned Ship’s Wheel II in the borough. They participated in the TNR (trap, neuter, release) program there for 15 years. My name is Runtley Appleby. I am a tall, black cat with white whiskers and a very long tail.