Ocean City Farmers Market runs to Sept. 14
There’s a lot more than produce available OCEAN CITY — Shoppers will find fresh produce, crafts, jewelry, clothing, art, decor and almost anything else during the weekly Ocean City Farmers Market, which continues Wednesdays through Sept. 14 on the grounds of the Ocean City Tabernacle at Sixth Street and Asbury Avenue. The market is open […]
OCPD accepted into ABLE project
Helps officers prevent misconduct, reduce mistakes OCEAN CITY – The Ocean City Police Department has been accepted to join the Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement (ABLE) Project as a partner agency. Backed by prominent civil rights and law enforcement leaders, ABLE was developed by Georgetown Law’s Innovative Policing Program to provide practical strategies and tactics […]
Linwood man gets year in jail for abusing puppy
MAYS LANDING – Following a guilty plea to third-degree animal cruelty, Kyle Blythe, 24, of Linwood was sentenced on Aug. 24 to 364 days in the Atlantic County Jail and five years of probation following his release. Blythe was arrested and charged with animal cruelty following an investigation by the Linwood Police Department in December […]
Man gets 3 years in prison for killing dog
MAYS LANDING – Following a guilty plea to third-degree animal cruelty charge, Gary Moore, 39, of Camden was sentenced to three years in state prison on Aug. 26 by the Honorable Dorothy Garrabrant, J.S.C. Moore pled guilty to the crime in July of 2022. In his guilty plea, Moore admitted to intentionally killing his then […]
The devil will be in details implementing state health curriculum
The members of the public who gathered in the Ocean City High School library last Wednesday to oppose the new state Department of Education’s Comprehensive Health and Physical Education standards came away disappointed and angry. They chose the all-or-nothing approach, asking the Ocean City Board of Education to reject the standards entirely. That didn’t happen. […]
Ocean City school board votes narrowly to approve new health standards
Audience members, kept waiting over two hours, asked the board to vote no because the curriculum ‘over-sexualizes’ children OCEAN CITY – After making the audience wait through more than two hours after twice going into executive session – a process that winnowed the large crowd gathered in the high school library – and then listening […]
Ocean City teachers’ ‘scripted’ response: ‘Go home and ask your mom’
Adopting state health standards doesn’t mean teaching all the controversial things in it When inquisitive kids want more information, teachers will be trained to tell them to go home and ask mom and dad about that.– Dr. Lauren Gunther OCEAN CITY – When it comes to the most sensitive details in the school’s new health education […]
View from Ocean City Music Pier: 612 wind turbines
More planned projects to bring wind farms as close as 8.8 miles from coast OCEAN CITY — The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) runs 1,400 pages. For those who search through it, there is a lot of information, some far beyond the proposal for Ocean Wind 1, the electricity-generating wind […]
Commenter: BOEM report downplays wind farm’s impact on fishing, tourism
OCEAN CITY – The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is downplaying potential adverse effects of offshore wind projects by setting faulty baselines in its Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) on Ocean Wind 1. That’s the argument by Barbara McCall, a Florida resident who owns property in Ocean City. She argues having more accurate baselines […]
Linwood dedicates library to former mayor Vass
Hard Rock’s Jim Allen donates $100K to continue mayor’s legacy LINWOOD — It’s now the Donald B. Vass Library and Community Center and already has received its first large endowment — a $100,000 donation from a longtime friend and admirer. On a beautiful summer day outside the building at 301 Davis Ave., the city dedicated […]