Gina Scala

1 week ago | thesandpaper.net | Gina Scala

Nuclear energy has often been described as clean, safe and reliable. That it’s also been defined by big emotions on both sides of the safety debate is seemingly a thing of the past as the industry experiences a renewed interest in bringing its next generation to fruition for national security, energy affordability and independence as well as meeting generation demand. “The United States originally pioneered nuclear energy technology during a time of great peril.

1 week ago | thesandpaper.net | Gina Scala

The official start of summer is still days away, but its impact is already being felt by some Surf City residents who brought traffic safety concerns to light, saying children and grandchildren are aplenty in a neighborhood that has become an unsafe thoroughfare for speeders and tractor trailers. “Seventeenth Street is a narrow street and unfortunately, where it is, it’s the main street coming right off the bay area and there’s a lot of traffic. We know that,” Louis Giele said.

1 week ago | thesandpaper.net | Gina Scala

Jersey drivers are well-known for honking their horns in displeasure, but on June 14 at the gateway to Long Beach Island, at least some of the honking was in support for a crowd that gathered to protest Donald Trump’s policies since the start of his second presidency. They lined the sidewalk on the south side of Ninth Street in Ship Bottom and waved signs. There were 2,000 planned No King protests nationwide that day.

1 week ago | buff.ly | Gina Scala

Jersey drivers are well-known for honking their horns in displeasure, but on June 14 at the gateway to Long Beach Island, at least some of the honking was in support for a crowd that gathered to protest Donald Trump’s policies since the start of his second presidency. They lined the sidewalk on the south side of Ninth Street in Ship Bottom and waved signs. There were 2,000 planned No King protests nationwide that day.

1 week ago | thesandpaper.net | Juliet Kaszas-Hoch |Gina Scala

Under an overcast sky the morning of June 16, students and staff of the Long Beach Island Grade School in Ship Bottom gathered for a photograph that will likely appear in yet-to-come LBI history books: the last classes to ever attend the school. By contrast, a blue early-evening sky had greeted the Class of 2025 a few days earlier as they arrived at the circa-1950s building and became the final sixth-grade graduates to flip the tassel from right to left within the LBI School.