The pounding could be heard on the bottom level of the Anita C. Leight Estuary Center as children used mortars and pestles to break down seashells and grind them into powder to use as paints. Five ...

WILDWOOD, N.J. -- It's always nice down the shore. This group of elementary students is proving it. During the COVID-19 shutdown, they began painting seashells with kind messages to hide throughout ...

On Thanksgiving night this past fall, Sue Mistretta was walking off dinner in Sea Girt with her mother and sister when she spotted a painted sea shell on a bench next to the library. “It stood out to ...