Central United Methodist Church a pumpkin patch again
LINWOOD — Volunteers of all ages turned out early Saturday morning to unload a tractor-trailer filled with pumpkins that was parked outside Central United Methodist Church in Linwood. The volunteers, a mix of parishioners and a large cohort from the Mainland Regional High School field hockey team and some other Mustang athletes, spent a few hours […]
ALS Walk has raised over $5 million
25th walk honors founder Bob Goudie OCEAN CITY — When Bob Goudie was with his wife, Jo Ann, at the University of Pennsylvania hospital 26 years ago, a representative of ALS United Mid-Atlantic knocked on their hospital door and asked if there were anything it could do to support Jo. Wheelchair ramp? Oxygen? Computer? Anything. […]
Walcott to receive Carnegie Medal for saving family
Upper Township attorney rescued four caught in rip current in Ocean City in 2024 OCEAN CITY — He didn’t want to do it, almost didn’t, but his family made him because, after all, receiving the highest civilian award in the country is worth a little discomfort. Upper Township attorney Brandon Walcott has been lauded as […]
Wild Magnolia opens in Marmora as a mother-daughter experience
MARMORA — A love of shopping together led a mother-daughter duo to open their own women’s boutique in 2017, and now they have expanded with a second location in Upper Township. Kathy and Megan Bellucci, who opened Wild Magnolia Boutique at Woodland Village and just finished their ninth summer there, held a grand opening of […]
9/11 speaker: Remember the flight crews too
Ocean City’s Kaye Stewart: They saved lives that day OCEAN CITY — Hundreds gathered Friday evening outside the Ocean City Fire Department headquarters to mark a quarter-century since the devastating terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. That morning, two hijacked passenger jets slammed into the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in New York City while […]
Mullock hears of harm from Medicaid cuts
Experts detail how loss affecting congressional district’s residents GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP — They talked and Zack Mullock listened as speaker after speaker detailed how they think U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew has failed the Second Congressional District. Mullock, the mayor of Cape May, is challenging the four-term MAGA Republican congressman in the election Nov. 3. He […]
DePamphilis, Owen face O’Brien, Lamond in Somers Point
SOMERS POINT — City Councilman Rick DePamphilis III is running for another term in the election Nov. 3, but with a different candidate on his ticket. Councilman Jack Shields, who was appointed Jan. 22 to replace Charlie Haberkorn after his resignation with a year left on his term, has decided not to run this fall. He […]
Hartzell: Plan for boardwalk property will by ‘our plan,’ collective of ‘everybody’s opinion’
He says council has diverse opinions but is working very well together OCEAN CITY — Before heading into an executive session over hiring a litigator for a lawsuit on the former Wonderland Pier amusement park property, Councilman Keith Hartzell made it clear whatever happens on that property will be a plan “that is collective of […]
Former council president, business leaders: Move Ocean City forward
They tell city council to work together with developer on boardwalk property OCEAN CITY — A former council president and business representatives implored Ocean City Council last week to keep moving the city forward. The resort has been mired in controversy over what to do with the former Wonderland Pier amusement park property that has […]
Merritt decries ‘void’ of information on Wonderland site
Among those suing city, he wants council members to put their positions on the record OCEAN CITY — Bill Merritt of Ocean City 2050, who is among those suing the city over the Wonderland Pier property, told City Council members they should individually state their positions on what should happen at the former amusement park […]