Somers Point may ease eatery parking
Panel: Fewer spots needed per customer SOMERS POINT — Somers Point is considering easing parking requirements for restaurants in its commercial districts. City Council President Janice Johnston reported April 13 that the Parking Committee is recommending changing the ratio of spaces required per restaurant seat. In a letter to City Administrator Jason Frost, city engineer […]
Council raises rates for parking meters
Asbury Ave. meters will be on year-round for now OCEAN CITY — After a lengthy discussion and being asked to delay a vote to get a clear consensus from downtown merchants on the issue, Ocean City Council went ahead with new parking regulations that increased meter rates and extended paid meters downtown from seasonal to […]
Seaville blaze draws over 100 firefighters
12 trailers at campground destroyed, but no one is injured SEAVILLE — Firefighters from 26 departments battled a blaze for more than three hours April 11, preventing injuries in a conflagration that destroyed a dozen trailers and damaged more than a dozen others. Seaville Fire Rescue Deputy Chief Roy Blackledge reported crews arrived at about […]
Ocean City OKs design work on police HQ, substation
OCEAN CITY — City Council approved contracts to design a new boardwalk police facility to handle the expanded duties during the busy summer months and for a redesign and renovation of the outdated police station on Central Avenue. Both contracts were awarded to William McLees Architectural in the consent agenda at Thursday evening’s council meeting. […]
Advocacy for lifeguard contract draws rebuke
OCEAN CITY — Public advocacy for setting a contract with Ocean City Beach Patrol lifeguards drew a sharp rebuke from the city’s business administrator at Thursday evening’s City Council meeting. The city has been in negotiations with lifeguards on a new contract. The contract came into the news last year after the city had to […]
Officials impressed by work so far on Somers Point Village Apartments
SOMERS POINT – Somers Point City Council President Janice Johnston and Councilman Howard Dill recently visited the Somers Point Village Apartments complex, where they met with representatives for an update on the improvements. City Council began talks last year with the owner of the affordable-housing complex off Somers Point-Mays Landing Road following years of crimes, […]
Gun detection software approved
City to spend $294K in conjunction with school district OCEAN CITY — Ocean City will spend nearly $300,000 over the next five years for a weapon detection service in conjunction with the Ocean City School District. City Council approved the spending with ZeroEyes Inc. of Conshohocken, Pa., for “threat and weapons detection software and equipment.” […]
South Jersey Yacht Sales breaks ground on new Somers Point showroom
SOMERS POINT — With the toss of some dirt from a group wielding golden shovels, the ground was officially broken April 12 on the new showroom for South Jersey Yacht Sales. Located at 680 Bay Ave., the 10,527-square-foot building will include a showroom large enough to display center-console boats up to 60 feet and 12 […]
Ocean City dresses up for Easter Fashion Stroll
OCEAN CITY — The Curran family of Atlantic City, veterans of decades of fashion parades, put on a unified front in their green and black outfits. Jersey girl Lila Philion, visiting from Florida, was colorful from head to toe, starting with the plastic eggs clipped into her hair. They were among a crowd of snazzy […]
History wasn’t on her agenda until a comment about author’s great-grandfather later in her life
OCEAN CITY — For someone who just published the first of a series of books on the history of people of color in Ocean City, author Loretta Thompson Harris wasn’t partial to studying history back in high school. “It’s really hard to believe,” Harris acknowledged during an interview last week ahead of a planned signing […]