Sea&Do: Upcoming events
Strathmere food drive STRATHMERE — The Strathmere Fishing and Environmental Club is hosting a food drive from 9 a.m. to noon July 4 that will benefit the Church of the Resurrection Food Pantry in Marmora. The group is seeking non-perishable items, essential household goods and monetary donations to help support local families in need. Drop off is […]
Not Just Putting Around
O-Street Mini Golf league takes on city’s courses in a fun but competitive way OCEAN CITY — They study the courses assiduously, look carefully at the lay of the artificial greens and confer with the other golfers. Their faces reveal the intensity as they line up their putts. The body language that follows the club-strike […]
Masters Swim draws biggest field in years
OCEAN CITY — The T. John Carey Masters Swim, a one-mile jaunt in the Atlantic off of Ocean City’s beaches, draws young and old alike. More than 220 swimmers completed the swim Sunday, July 12, from 9-year-old Payton Reardon of Strathmere to 84-year-old Charles Butler of Cherry Hill. The fastest, Frankie Brady, a 30-year-old former guard […]
OCBP comes from behind to win 2026 Cape May County Lifeguard Championship
Ocean City lifeguards win final two events to top Wildwood Crest, Avalon and seven other patrols WILDWOOD CREST — Every point counted as the Ocean City Beach Patrol came from behind to win the 2026 Cape May County Lifeguard Championship on July 10, besting host Wildwood Crest by one point. The OCBP scored in all […]
Atlantic City wins season-opening women’s lifeguard race
Upper Township women finish second, Sea Ice City beach Patrol third LONGPORT — The Atlantic City Beach Patrol used a combination of veteran leadership and youthful exuberance to win the 28th Longport Women’s Lifeguard Invitational on July 7. The ACBP won the swim and surf dash and took second in the doubles row en route […]
Key things to know about the Ocean City Yacht Club
– Founded in 1901 as a sailing and social club with “… the purpose of encouraging and promoting amateur yachting on Great Egg Harbor Bay and its tributaries.” Motorboats were included after 1912. – Oldest continuously-operating yacht club in Cape May County (1901). There were three different locations in Ocean City early on, but the […]
‘Anchored in Tradition’
Marking 125th year, Ocean City Yacht Club honors past, celebrates present, sailing into the future OCEAN CITY — The Ocean City Yacht Club’s history is measured not only as the locus for sailing on the island, but in the generations of families who have brought the club to its 125th anniversary this year and who […]
Somers Point lets film industry know it’s ready and available
SOMERS POINT — The “Eddie and the Cruisers” fame has faded since the 1980s, but a new initiative may put the city back on the silver screen. Somers Point is working with the Atlantic County Economic Alliance (ACEA) and New Jersey Motion Picture & Television Commission (NJMPTC) on the Film Ready Certification Initiative. “We’ve been […]
American Legion honoring military families with free Ocean City vacation
By DOUG OTTO/American Legion Post 524 Ocean City’s Morvay-Miley-Cruice American Legion Post 524 will welcome three military families to America’s Greatest Family Resort on July 12 for a week of fun and festivities courtesy of the post’s Rest & Relaxation Program, now in its 14th year. The families will be given the use of a […]