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Month: March 2023

Teachers, cops, players mark NIT victories

Northfield Community School basketball game NORTHFIELD — The Northfield Police Department joined staff members March 3 in the gym at Northfield Community School to face off against the champion Thunderbirds girls and boys basketball teams. Kevin Morrison, principal of the middle school, said both teams won the Northfield Invitational Tournament Feb. 24 and the Think […]

More severe hurricances predicted for Mid-Atlantic/Northeast

BROOKYLN, N.Y. — A model from the First Street Foundation, a nonprofit research and technology group dedicated to making climate risk accessible, found that more than 13.4 million properties will be exposed to hurricanes in 30 years that are not currently at such risk, as well as increased vulnerability of Mid-Atlantic states. According to the […]

Northfield man, 25, guilty of hit-and-run vehicular homicide

MAYS LANDING – On Thursday, March 9, Matthew Cademartori, 25, of Northfield, pled guilty to one count of vehicular homicide in connection with the 2021 hit-and-run death of a pedestrian in Absecon.  On Jan. 8, 2022, at approximately 1:57 a.m., while operating a Ford F150 pickup traveling east on the White Horse Pike in Absecon, […]

‘Power of the Pack’

Women in Business Conference USCG captain tells tales of women leaders amid natural disasters, world affairs, virtual preschool OCEAN CITY — U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Kate Higgins-Bloom credits the “power of the pack” with giving women “courage to do what you don’t think you can do.” Higgins-Bloom, deputy commander of U.S. Coast Guard Sector Delaware […]

Spacious single an oasis amid the action in city’s popular Riviera section

OCEAN CITY — There is plenty of room for family and friends — and their friends — in the seven-bedroom mansion at 34 Walnut Road. Located in the popular Riviera section of the island, the three-story home is brand spanking new and includes all of the modern bells and whistles one would expect to find. […]

Ocean City tax rate may increase 3.7 percent

Mayor sends proposed 2023 budget with 1.77¢ tax hike to City Council OCEAN CITY – Revenues and spending in Mayor Jay Gillian’s proposed 2023 municipal budget are up more than 9 percent, but the local tax rate would climb just under 3.7 percent – or 1.77 cents per $100 – if approved by Ocean City […]

Schwarzenegger at Stockton: Resist hatred

GALLOWAY — Arnold Schwarzenegger has spent most of his life helping people build their strength.   “Your muscles only grow from resistance. It wasn’t easy. It was uncomfortable. Your mind and character are no different than your body and muscles,” the former bodybuilder told Stockton University students and guests during his presentation centered on terminating […]

Misbehavior forces Upper Township Committee to recess meeting

Foes of wind farm would not stick to comment on amendment up for vote PETERSBURG — Township Committee was forced to take a recess during a raucous and unruly meeting Feb. 27, when multiple speakers refused to follow directions for public comment. It was a packed house, with some toting signs protesting wind farms and […]

Somers Point veterans  group to put shine on War of 1812 monument

SOMERS POINT — Naval history is a big deal in Somers Point, a city whose namesake son died fighting for the fledgling U.S. Navy off the coast of Tripoli during the Barbary Wars. Efforts to repatriate the remains of Master Commandant Richard Somers, who was killed while leading a fireship attack in 1804, continue to […]

LSS Student Visionaries raise money for cancer research

Adviser Georges: ‘We have the best students …. Only Ocean City can pull this off’ OCEAN CITY — It was beyond noisy in the Ocean City Civic Center Thursday afternoon with the crack of pickleball paddles smacking balls around the indoor courts mixed with cries of triumph and disappointment as shots landed in and out […]