Longtime residents of Stone Harbor fondly recall Bud’s Market, located at 83rd Street and Ocean Drive, and its kindly proprietor, Mario “Bud” Zuccato. The story of Bud’s Market and the Zuccato family stretches back several decades and over three generations.

This is the first summer that the Seven Mile Times has not had local lifeguard competition to write about, thanks of course to the COVID-19 pandemic. That being the case, we thought it might be fun to look back at some 1960s photographs of the Avalon and Stone Harbor beach patrols.

Sometimes the destiny of a person and a place are so intertwined, it’s hard to separate them. So it is with Bill Tozour and Avalon. In a lifetime that spanned from the 1920s to the 2020s, Bill Tozour grew up in Avalon … and helped Avalon grow up.

As the Stone Harbor Sunday Softball League wraps up its COVID-shortened 2020 season, we thought it would be fun to take a look back at the league’s roots. The Stone Harbor Sunday League dates back to the early 1970s when it was formed primarily as “restaurant/bar” Sunday league. The league has withstood the test of time and lots of changes in almost a half-century of competitive fun.