🌱 How Southern Regional musicians turned a European tour into hometown pride

Good morning Manahawkin! We're back in your inbox this morning to keep you in the loop with what's happening in and around town. Grab a cup of coffee and read on. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

• How Southern Regional musicians turned a European tour into hometown pride

Also on today's calendar: Hotel California: Eagles Tribute and 6 more events.

And lastly, we have a post from a neighbor, Maryellen M.!

Today's riddle: Why did the man leave his watch in the bank? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Tuesday: Partly sunny and humid, with a high of 84 and low of 66 degrees.
• Wednesday: Very warm with clouds and sun, temps: high: 89, low: 69. 🌶 Hot!
• Thursday: Humid with a shower or two, with a high of 84 and low of 69 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Southern Regional High School Performing Arts Students Take the Stage Across Europe on 20-Day Tour (tapinto.net) — Southern Regional High School performing arts students from Manahawkin just wrapped up a 20-day concert tour across five European countries with the American Music Abroad program. Thirteen band, orchestra, and choir members performed for local audiences, visited historic landmarks, and represented their school and Manahawkin as youth cultural ambassadors, capping off a year of intensive musical study.
   

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Manahawkin

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★ Featured events ★

Tuesday August 18

• Old Causeway →
  The Old Causeway Steak & Oyster House, 1201 E Bay Ave, Manahawkin
  6:00 pm

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Other local events

Tuesday August 18

• Town Council Meeting →
  Stafford Township Municipal Complex - 260 East Bay Avenue Manaha
  7:00 pm

Wednesday August 19

• Stafford Township Mobile Community Wellness & Resource Fair →
  Stafford Township, NJ Calendar, 489 Nautilus Drive, Manahawkin
  10:00 am
• Broadway Revue Pure Imagination Summer Camp... →
  Stafford Township Arts Center (STAC), 1000 McKinley Ave, Manahawkin
  6:00 pm
• Broadway Revue Pure Imagination Summer Camp Performance →
  Stafford Township Arts Center (STAC), 1000 McKinley Ave, Manahawkin
  6:00 pm
• Planning Board Meeting →
  Stafford Township Municipal Complex - 260 East Bay Avenue Manaha
  7:00 pm
• Planning Board meeting - MEETING CANCELLED →
  Stafford Township, NJ Calendar, 260 East Bay Avenue, Manahawkin
  7:00 pm

Thursday August 20

• Hotel California: Eagles Tribute →
  Stafford Township Arts Center (STAC), 1000 McKinley Ave, Stafford Township
  7:30 pm

Saturday August 22

• LIVE MUSIC - The Danksters →
  The Boatyard, 2304 E Bay Ave, Manahawkin
  1:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Wednesday August 19

• Krafty Kids →
  Township of Long Beach Bayview Park, 6802 Long Beach Blvd, Brant Beach, NJ, 08008
  10:00 am

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Rest in peace, Tommy John.
  I had the pleasure to meet him at a card show. He was a nice man. (Nextdoor Ocean Acres - South)

• Sherwin-Williams Company posted a job opening for Bilingual Customer Service Specialist (Spanish) in Manahawkin. Apply here.
• Doherty Enterprises, Inc. posted a job opening for Food Expeditor in Manahawkin. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Manahawkin here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Long Beach

• Various Artists (Including Bruce Springteen & Jon Bon Jovi) - Sgt. Patrick King Memorial Fund Benefit, Count Basie Theater, Red Bank, NJ, 1-31-1998, Part 1 (blogspot.com)
• Massive dead whale washes into Jersey Shore surf and begins breaking apart (shorenewsnetwork.com)

Surf City

• Dead Endangered Fin Whale Recovered From Ocean off LBI (thesandpaper.net)

Barnegat

• Casting With A Cop Returns To Barnegat (jerseyshoreonline.com)
• 2 drown in separate Morris County lake incidents (nj1015.com)
• Insider NJ's Morning Intelligence Briefing: 8/17/2026 (insidernj.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: So he could save time! (Thank you Lorraine S. for sending it in!)
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