If you’re shopping at Global Pursuit and purchase a shirt, you might just think you got a cute new top to wear to your next barbecue. But if the shirt happens to be made by the brand United By Blue, your purchase just also improved the environment.

No one could have prepared us for how our lives and businesses would change as a result of this pandemic. It’s been more than three long months since this started, and things still aren’t back to normal. Although each day there have been a lot of negative and difficult things to handle, it’s nice to try to find the positive things that have come from this pandemic as well.

In the age of all things digital … and all things coronavirus-related this year … the Avalon Free Public Library is at the forefront of programming by planning ahead and jumping on the opportunity to offer a wide array of summer programs, digitally!

Guy Gargan chuckles, assessing the “The King of the Beach” moniker applied to him in the lifeguard-racing community.

Imagine living through the Roaring Twenties, the Depression, World War II, the post-World War II economic and baby boom, the counterculture era in the 1960s and 1970s, the Civil Rights movement, the first moon landing, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, 9/11 and more.

Congrats! Class of 2020

While many people spent their quarantine time binge-watching Netflix and Hulu, Avalon Elementary School sixth-grader Will Tozour was creating ear savers for essential workers.

John Richardson, an Avalon resident and Middle Township High School industrial-arts teacher, was honored by the school last year by declaring June 3 National John Richardson Day – a nod to his sense of humor, as he is known as the school’s prankster.