Fetid swamp, fairytale creatures coming to Linwood
‘Shrek the Musical’ on stage this week at Mainland Regional High School LINWOOD — A big, ugly ogre will be at Mainland Regional High School this week, and it’s not Mark Marrone on a bad-hair day. The chief school administrator hopefully will be in a laughing mood as the school’s drama club is set to […]
Northfield City Council: We can’t stop sober living facility
NORTHFIELD — A group of neighbors, anxious and angry that 11 recovering heroin addicts soon will be moving into a home nearby, voiced their concerns to City Council on March 8 and were told the city could do nothing to block it. The house was bought by Stop the Heroin Recovery Homes, a nonprofit sober […]
Gateway Theater’s Cooper: ‘A labor of love’
Star-studded send-off will be April 3 SOMERS POINT — The curtain has fallen on the tenure of Keith Cooper as executive director of the Gateway Playhouse, the Bay Avenue theater he helped resurrect from the dead. The 62-year-old will enjoy a Broadway star-studded sendoff April 3 during a concert by husband Kelly Briggs at the […]
Ocean City school board has special meeting on girls basketball team
Parents criticize process, district for not supporting their daughters; others support coach, his methods, defend investigation OCEAN CITY — The Ocean City Board of Education held a special meeting Thursday afternoon as more people weighed in about the head girls basketball coach’s alleged mistreatment of his players, but after hearing a half-hour of public comments […]
20 years later, Ocean City High School will finally be paid off
Huge debt service payments for school gone from next year’s budget OCEAN CITY – Ocean City High School will finally be paid off this school year. Twenty years ago, in 2002, the district took out a bond to pay for the construction of a school on Atlantic Avenue to be built across the street from […]
Commenters weigh in on Ocean Wind 1
Hearing on use of resort’s land for transmission lines turns into forum on project A public hearing Monday evening on Ocean Wind 1’s proposed use of less than an acre of Ocean City land for its power transmission cables turned into a referendum on the planned wind turbine farm off the coast. Representatives of Ocean […]
Mother raises safety concerns at Dawes Ave. school
SOMERS POINT — Theresa Dougherty brought her concerns about what she calls a dangerous situation for students to City Council’s attention Feb. 10, asking for help before someone gets hurt. Dougherty, president of the Dawes Avenue School PTO, said traffic at the intersection of Pierson and Atlantic avenues during student pickup and drop-off makes it […]
Rotondi files petitions for Ocean City Council
OCEAN CITY – Ocean City’s Second Ward Councilman Tom Rotondi submitted his petitions to the City Clerk Monday to seek an at-large council seat. With his family by his side, Rotondi submitted more than 125 petitions from supporters for his bid. “I’m proud of the work we, as council, have been able to do in […]
Moore files to run for Ocean City Council seat
OCEAN CITY – Donna Moore filed nominating petitions Friday to begin her “For our people and our environment” campaign for an at-large seat on Ocean City Council. There are three at-large seats available in the May 10 election and six candidates have filed to run for those positions. In addition to Moore, candidates include Second […]
DeVlieger was first to file for Ocean City council seat
OCEAN CITY – Michael DeVlieger, previously elected three times as Ocean City’s First Ward councilman, was the first to file his petitions to run for one of three at-large council seats in the May 10 election. DeVlieger, 55, stepped down from his seat in August 2020, citing a “family crisis,” but said that has been […]