Ocean City, Mainland boys medal at CAL track and field championships
BUENA VISTA TOWNSHIP – Mustang senior Josiah Williams won two events and finished second in a third at the Cape-Atlantic League Track and Field Championships Saturday, May 10, at Buena Regional High School. Williams won the long jump with a leap of 22’10” and the triple jump with a distance of 45’11.5”. He took second […]
Raider and Mustang girls medal at CAL track, field championship
BUENA VISTA TOWNSHIP – Red Raider sophomore Ella Miller was second in the 100-meter dash at the Cape-Atlantic League Track and Field Championships Saturday, May 10, at Buena Regional High School. She finished 2/100ths of a second behind first-place’s Daizhae Brown, who won in 12.32 seconds. Not content with her 12.32-second 100 meters, Miller came […]
Upper Township School District budget hikes tax rate 4¢
PETERSBURG — The Upper Township Board of Education adopted its budget April, 28, calling for a 4-cent increase to the tax rate to $1.587 per $100 of assessed value. The owner of a home assessed at the township average of $290,248 would see a school tax increase of about $116 to $4,606 for the year […]
Ocean City School District to have minimal .5¢ tax increase
OCEAN CITY — Although Ocean City officials are wrestling with a proposed municipal budget that could raise the tax rate 7.04 percent, taxpayers won’t feel much of an additional hit from the local Board of Education. The school board approved the 2025-26 budget May 1 with no changes from when it was first presented in […]
Tax increase, 15 jobs cut in Somers Point School District
SOMERS POINT — Faced with rising health care, labor and facilities costs, coupled with dwindling state aid, the Somers Point School District cut 15 staff positions and raised the tax levy 5.49 percent. The $19.9 million budget for 2025-26, adopted May 1, calls for a tax levy of $12.1 million and a tax rate increase […]
MRHS district hacks 13 positions, raises tax rate
LINWOOD — Mainland Regional High School cut 13 positions and reassigned 11 while raising taxes to fund its 2025-26 budget. The district also took advantage of the state Tax Levy Incentive Program that allowed those spending below adequacy to increase expenditures beyond the 2 percent levy cap. The tax levy will increase 3.64 percent, or […]
Hermit crab predicts early start to summer in Ocean City
OCEAN CITY – Simply put, it was easier to believe Martin Z. Mollusk this year. On Friday, a warm and sunny day during which a few souls were wearing bathing suits on the beach, the little hermit crab was looking for its shadow to prognosticate the early arrival of summer in America’s Greatest Family Resort. […]
Della May Ostien
Surrounded by her family Della May Ostien (nee Omlor) went to be with her Lord and Savior on Tuesday, April 15, 2025. Della was born in Hahnaman Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Sunday, June 25, 1944, to Charles E. Omlor, Sr., and A. Grace Omlor (nee Hutton). She attended Middle Township Roosevelt and Lima elementary schools […]
Mary M. Lee, 96
Mary M. Lee, born and raised in Ocean City, NJ, passed away April 25, 2025. She lived to 96 despite having battled lung cancer for more than 25 years. In her retirement Mary resided at the Masonic Village Retirement Community in Sewickley, PA. In her early years at Masonic Village Mary was active in oil […]