Sea&Do: Ocean City area events
Colony Club Fashion Show SOMERS POINT – The Colony Club of Ocean City will present its annual Fashion Show Dinner 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 11, at Greate Bay Country Club, 901 Somers Point-Mays Landing Road, Somers Point, Fashions from two Ocean City boutiques, She’z the Boss and Pete’s Mercantile, will be modeled by […]
Ocean City, Wildwood deal with holiday weekend fights, stabbing
Officials vow zero tolerance for bad behavior OCEAN CITY – Public officials issued a stern warning to large groups of unruly teens and young adults after a fight and stabbing on the Ocean City Boardwalk over Memorial Day weekend and as Wildwood was forced to declare a state of emergency to clear its own boardwalk. […]
Mainland Regional hosts Unified Sports Meet as Special Olympics partner
LINWOOD — Amid a morning breeze and warm rays of sunshine, Mainland Regional High School kicked off its third annual Unified Sports Spring Track and Field event May 22. A partnership with New Jersey Special Olympics, the event provided an opportunity for students with disabilities to engage in athletics and foster camaraderie with Unified Partners — […]
John H. Andrus II, 83
John H. Andrus II, 83, of Ocean City went to be with the Lord the morning of May 15, 2024. He died peacefully at home, surrounded by his family, after a 4-year battle with metastatic prostate cancer. John was born in Camden, NJ to Dr. David L. Andrus and Bertha Morrison Andrus. John learned to […]
Our View: Elected officials owe their loyalty to their constituents first
The Republican primary for Upper Township Committee is intense. Tough and sometimes nasty election fights in local politics here and around the country are not out of the ordinary, but one aspect is much newer. It’s something that was part and parcel for federal offices, the Senate and House of Representatives, but lately has filtered […]
Mainland Mustangs champions at CAL track and field meet
BRIDGETON — Mainland Regional’s girls dominated the distance events and the pole vault at the 2024 Cape-Atlantic League Track and Field Championships on May 22 at Bridgeton High School, and Josiah Williams and Matt Muits took home gold for the Mustang boys team. Gillian Lovett was a double winner for the Mainland girls, winning the […]
Raider athletes bring home gold medals from CAL track and field championship
BRIDGETON — The Ocean City High School relay teams had an impressive day May 22 at the Cape-Atlantic League Track and Field Championships. The boys and girls 4×800 relays and the girls 4×100 and 4×400 relays all took home gold medals as other Raiders had successful outings. The boys relay, featuring Michael Romano, Nathan Aschmann, […]
Raider baseball wins tournament opener
OCEAN CITY – With the regular season behind them, the Red Raiders baseball team opened the NJSIAA South Jersey Group III playoffs with a win. In the first round, Ocean City High School cruised to a 4-1 victory over Cumberland Regional High School on May 23. After the Raiders stranded four base runners in the […]
Memorial Day honors ultimate sacrifice, recalls POW/MIA
OCEAN CITY – Ralph W. Galati, the keynote speaker at Ocean City’s Memorial Day services, told an overflow crowd at Veterans Memorial Park about the 14 months he spent in Hanoi as a POW during the Vietnam War, but that came as little more than an aside. His focus was not on himself. Galati’s address […]
Ocean City rally continuing the battle against offshore wind farms
OCEAN CITY — A couple of dozen people turned out for the 2nd annual Stop Offshore Wind rally and Bridge Walk on Saturday at Mark Soifer Park, where Republican candidates for state and federal offices criticized the Murphy and Biden administrations for supporting the development of wind farms. Conservative radio host Dan Klein of 1400 […]