Ocean City’s Island Beach Gear: The accidental business
OCEAN CITY — Beverley Gill didn’t intend to sell beach chairs, umbrellas, carts and accessories for the past 16 years, it just kind of happened. Gill said she and her husband, Thomas, and son, Patrick, operated TackleDirect from a building they owned on Pleasure Avenue that was under threat of being taken by the state […]
Council supports Playland, wants boardwalk ramp out
Administration: Ramp can come down in two hours if needed; city worked to accommodate business OCEAN CITY — After several Ocean City Council members asked the city to take down the newly reinstalled ramp at 10th Street to give Playland’s Castaway Cove more access to rebuild, Business Administrator George Savastano said they were blowing the […]
West Cape dispensary targets 4/20
It will be almost a year before Cape May County cannabis business opens; nearest site is in EHT WEST CAPE MAY — While 11 marijuana retail stores are operating elsewhere in the state, it may take until next spring for one local cannabis retailer to open for business in the borough. Dave Christian, of Shorehouse […]
Opponents: BPU mischaracterized city stance on Ocean Wind
OCEAN CITY — Opponents of Danish wind-power company Ørsted using Green Acres land on the island to install power cables took issue with how the state Board of Public Utilities characterized the city’s stance on the project. Former councilman Michael DeVlieger and others, including Suzanne Hornick of saveourcoastlinenj.com, said they believed the president of the […]
Things have come full circle for Miss NJ candidate Amy Phillips
OCEAN CITY — Some things come full circle. For Amy Phillips, a 2015 Ocean City High School graduate competing later this month for the title of Miss New Jersey, it started when she was a sixth-grader with teacher Betty Pruitt, director of the Miss Cape May County Pageant. Pruitt asked Phillips’ mother to volunteer with […]
Marmora man charged in OCBP sex-assault investigation
Year-long probe results in arrest of former lifeguard, a teacher in Pleasantville OCEAN CITY — A former lifeguard has been charged with first-degree sexual assault stemming from an investigation initiated last year into multiple allegations against members and administrators on the Ocean City Beach Patrol. On Thursday, Jonathan C. Howell, 40, a Marmora resident who […]
Taxes to rise in Ocean City after trash dispute
OCEAN CITY – After being told earlier this year they wouldn’t face a tax hike, Ocean City property owners will likely be paying an extra $41.33 for the average house assessed at $600,000, courtesy of a renegotiated contract for hauling trash and recyclables. Ocean City Council voted 4-1 Thursday to spend $770,000 more through the […]
Three vying for two spots in U.T. Committee GOP Primary
Nappen: It is time to ‘step up’ for the community UPPER TOWNSHIP – Victor Nappen is raising his young family in the same neighborhood where he grew up. He said he is running in the GOP primary for Upper Township Committee because it is time for him to “step up” for the community. Nappen is […]
Somers Point pulls 2nd Amendment resolution
Measure removed from agenda two days after Texas school massacre SOMERS POINT — Two days after teen gunman Salvador Ramos killed 21 people at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, City Council pulled a resolution from the agenda that expressed “opposition to any legislation that unconstitutionally infringes up an individual’s Second Amendment rights.” The Second Amendment, […]
Cape May County tourism guru shares encouraging summer news
CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE — Last year, Cape May County’s tourism industry recovered 96 percent of the business lost in 2020, the worst year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cape May County Tourism Director Diane Wieland presented a host of encouraging facts and figures May 25 during the county’s annual tourism conference. She said direct tourism […]