Jeff Shirk just can’t quit the Ocean City Halloween Parade
‘I love the parade. I’m recommitted and happy to keep doing it until I die or drop dead on the parade route’ OCEAN CITY – Get Jeff Shirk to a Halloween Parades Anonymous meeting stat. It is an addiction he just can’t quit. You can recognize it right off the bat when he introduces himself. […]
Feelings on wind project offered before forum
OCEAN CITY – Before Saturday’s three-and-a-half hour meeting about the Ocean Wind 1 project at the Ocean City Music Pier, critics and advocates for the proposed wind farm were outside, some protesting, others handing out materials in favor of wind energy farms off the coast. The meeting inside the pier attracted some 200 people who […]
Atlantic County: GOP dominates Election Day in local and state races
TRENTON — Republicans trounced Democrats in Atlantic County for local, county and state legislative seats. Despite losing the statewide vote, Jack Ciattarelli easily defeated Gov. Phil Murphy in the county, taking 38,887 to 24,686. The overall margin was uncomfortably close for the incumbent, who garnered 1,285,351 votes to 1,219,906. Marty Small was one of the […]
McClellan: GOP didn’t take election for granted
OCEAN CITY – Republican incumbents state Sen. Michael Testa and Assemblymen Antwan McClellan and Erik Simonsen had an easy victory in the Nov. 2 general election. Testa received 24,401 votes, or 67 percent, in Cape May County compared with Democrat challenger Yolanda Garcia Balicki’s 11,88 votes, or 32.75 percent. Simonsen received 24,073 votes, or 33.69 […]
VA Clinic in Northfield gets OK
NORTHFIELD — Developer John Berenato got the approval he was seeking Nov. 4 to move forward with a new, larger and more high-tech Atlantic County Veterans Affairs Clinic. Berenato, of Healthcare Realty Solutions, presented a plan to build a two-story, 30,080-square-foot building at 2101 New Road, the current site of Tilt-In Windows. The property is […]
Judith L. Jenkins, 78
Judith L. Jenkins, 78, passed away in the early hours of November 6th, 2021 after battling dementia for the past several years. Judy, also known as Miss Judy and the Grammar Goddess, was born September 1, 1943 in Philadelphia, PA to Sarah Israel (Castle) and Dr. Raymond Israel, and the family subsequently settled in York, […]
Lucy P. Cummings, 97
Lucy P. Cummings passed away peacefully at her home in Ocean City, New Jersey on October 31, 2021, at the age of 97. She was surrounded by her family, neighbors, and her best friend, Lisa Haas. Lucy was born in Brooklyn, NY, and spent her early years in an orphanage. As an adult, she lived […]
Joseph J. ‘Coach’ Lang, Jr., 93
Lang, Joseph J., Jr. 93 of Marshall, VA (and Ocean City, NJ) passed away on Saturday, October 30, 2021. Born in Philadelphia, PA to the late Joseph J. and Elizabeth (nee Burke) Lang, he was formerly of Glassboro, NJ and Ocean City, NJ. Mr. Lang was a Veteran of World War II serving with the […]
Lois Ann Mullen, 72
Lois Ann Mullen (nee Poole), 72, went home to be with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, on Saturday, November 6, 2021 in her Ocean City, NJ home with her family by her side. She ultimately won her battle over devastating complications from surgery for newly-diagnosed cholangiocarcinoma as she is now pain-free, fully-healed and rejoicing […]
Ocean City High School senior mentors Special Olympics golfer
Freund’s foursome also includes Miss America and positivity SEAVILLE — Isabella Freund is an outstanding teenager, and not just because of the title conferred during a pageant in the Miss America Organization or because of her skills on the golf course. It’s how she uses her lifelong passions that makes her exceptional. On Oct. 7, […]