Ocean City Raider runner Hoffman is double winner at South Jersey sectional meet
FRANKLINVILLE — Ocean City senior Matt Hoffman was a double winner at the South Jersey Group III sectional track and field meet over the weekend. Fellow Raiders and Mainland Mustangs medaled and finished in the top 10. The meet was Friday and Saturday at Delsea Regional High School. Hoffman won the 1600 and 3200 meter […]
Ocean City, Mainland teams’ seasons end in S.J. playoffs
After a rain-filled regular season, the South Jersey Group III playoffs began in high school baseball and lacrosse, but they weren’t kind for the Mainland Mustangs and Ocean City Red Raiders. The baseball playoffs were cut short in heartbreaking fashion as both teams lost by a single run. Mainland and Ocean City also fielded impressive […]
Ocean City Tuesday Senior Golf giving scholarships
By TONY CHERBY BUENA VISTA—Tom Gahr, the Ocean City Tuesday Senior Golf League’s awards coordinator, will be presenting two Ocean City High School golf team players graduating this year with $750 grants at the school’s annual awards ceremony June 3. We’ll announce the recipients’ names shortly. We’ve been doing this every June for about 12 […]
Ocean City Thursday Senior Golf: Sullivan, Givens tops
By PETE DAVIS EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP – May 30 was an outstanding weather day for golf and most of the play from the Ocean City Thursday Senior League golfers was outstanding as well. A review of the day’s results leads to a focus on several matches from A Flight and two from B Flight. The […]
Queen Anne Victorian offers multiple options for living, investment
OCEAN CITY — Options abound for the fortunate next owner of the Queen Anne-style Victorian home at 401 Wesley Ave. in the Northend neighborhood of America’s Greatest Family Resort. With 10 bedrooms, nine bathrooms plus two powder rooms — including a separate apartment and office — the palatial home could continue its life as an […]
Ocean City ‘absolutely safe’ for residents, visitors, officials say
Response was to incidents of teens fighting on boardwalk over Memorial Day weekend OCEAN CITY — At a press conference Thursday afternoon to show Ocean City is a safe place to live and vacation, Assemblyman Antwan McClellan put things in perspective. Referencing videos that swirled around social media showing teens fighting on the boardwalk over […]
‘Silent Fallout: Baby Teeth Speak’
Japanese film about nuclear contamination with local connections being screened in U.S. Editor’s note: To schedule a screening of the film “Silent Fallout: Baby Teeth Speak” with director Hideaki Ito, email burkeshiho@gmail.com or sachi.com@goldensachi.com. OCEAN CITY — A powerful Japanese film about the impact of radioactive fallout from American nuclear bomb testing will be making […]
Editor’s Desk: ‘This is our cry. This is our prayer. Peace in the world.’
Neville Shute’s 1957 novel, “On the Beach,” is about how people in Australia wait and prepare for deadly radioactive fallout, swirling around the world after a nuclear war, to finally reach their distant shores. I read that in middle school while the Cold War was still raging. It added to my apprehension about how a […]
Ocean City’s Joseph Mangano heads Radiation and Public Health Project
Book inspired movie ‘Silent Fallout: Baby Teeth Speak’ OCEAN CITY — The Baby Tooth Project initiated in 1958 examined how children across the United States were absorbing a radioactive element because of fallout from nuclear testing in Nevada and distant islands in the Pacific. Ocean City’s Joseph Mangano is executive director of the Radiation and […]
Shiho (Kikuzaki) Burke’s activism spurred by what happened to her family in Hiroshima bombing
OCEAN CITY — Shiho (Kikuzaki) Burke’s peace activism is personal. Her family was in Hiroshima when the U.S. dropped the first nuclear weapon on the city Aug. 6, 1945 to end World War II. She got involved with director Hideaki Ito’s film “Silent Fallout: Baby Teeth Speak” because she share’s the director’s vision. Shiho is […]