Doo Dah Parade marches on
Ocean City’s spring season kicked into high gear April 12 with the annual Doo Dah Parade, which marched south down Asbury Avenue to 12th Street and then up to the boardwalk, where it turned north to the Music Pier. The procession featured marching bands, floats and a brigade of basset hounds, their ears flapping in […]
Upper Township budget raises tax rate 9.9 percent
PETERSBURG — Township Committee approved the 2025 budget April 14 with a tax rate increase of 2.9 cents or 9.9 percent. Chief Financial Officer Barbara Ludy said the tax levy is increasing $594,000, requiring the rate increase. A penny is worth about $192,000. The $45.6 million spending plan includes a tax levy of $6.2 million, […]
Pickleball players fend off big fee hike in Ocean City
OCEAN CITY — Passionate pickleballers prevented proposed proliferating pay for paddle play on Ocean City’s courts with a pre-emptive push against the plan. Substantial increases in pickleball court fees were part of an ordinance that featured a wide range of fee increases for services throughout Ocean City. The ordinance was up for second reading April […]
Somers Point curtails parking of boats, trailers
Intent is to ensure boaters paying to use city ramps SOMERS POINT — Boat owners, both residential and commercial, criticized City Council’s changes to rules for parking trailers but were told they need not worry — the police would come only if a neighbor called. “We don’t have manpower out enforcing this unless a resident […]
Solicitor: BPDG still must obtain approvals from Upper Township, NJDEP
Some residents receiving letters with a site plan but details must be negotiated PETERSBURG — The Beesley’s Point Development Group is moving forward with its proposal for the redevelopment of the B.L. England Generating Station site. Township Committee announced April 14 that residents living within 200 feet of the wetlands part of the 350-acre property […]
Questions about home rule has city sending parking reg plan to review by Planning Board
OCEAN CITY — City Council decided to delay sending a proposal for parking requirements for big rental units being constructed in the Second Ward to a state board and will instead refer it to the Planning Board for review. Although council members in general agree with Second Ward Councilman Keith Hartzell’s measure to make sure […]
Ocean City Council changes public comment, moves all meetings to evenings
OCEAN CITY — Ocean City Council made changes to public comment citizens can offer, requiring the first of two public comment sessions be reserved only for topics on the agenda. If citizens want to speak on other topics — and many often do — they will have to wait until the public comment session at […]
Ocean City Council vote on cell tower should end fight at Compass building
OCEAN CITY — City Council approved a resolution that would allow a cell phone tower to be installed on Bay Avenue at the former American Legion lot, ending a long-running dispute over putting one at the Compass building on the corner of Haven Avenue and 34th Street. Ordinance 25-01, amending Zoning and Land Development, will […]
Dr. Laura Kasper opens Aesthetic Reflections medical spa in Marmora
MARMORA — “I figured I know I can do it, so I did it,” Dr. Laura Kasper said of opening her own business, Aesthetic Reflections medical spa in Marmora. Kasper, an emergency physician who also specializes in aesthetic medicine, held a grand opening ceremony April 3. In the middle of Wayside Village off Tuckahoe Road, […]
City Council moves budget forward; public skewers tax increase, spending
OCEAN CITY — Ocean City Council voted April 10 to introduce the 2025-26 municipal budget with its 7.04 percent tax rate increase despite public comment in opposition to it. The $112 million spending plan would increase the tax rate by 3.76 cents per $100 of assessed valuation. The spending and revenue sides were decreased by […]