Sea&Do: Upcoming events
OCBP chief to speak at Rotary OCEAN CITY – Ocean City Beach Patrol Chief Erich Becker will be the guest speaker at the Rotary Club of Ocean City – Upper Township breakfast meeting at 7 a.m. Thursday, July 24, at Uncle Bill’s Pancake House, 21st Street and Asbury Avenue, Ocean City. This is a breakfast menu […]
Bringing in a Broadway star just part of the mission
At Gateway Playhouse in Somers Point, ‘kids are the backbone’ SOMERS POINT —– Bringing in a Broadway star is just one way the Gateway Playhouse on Bay Avenue puts the emphasis on young actors in the Cape-Atlantic area. The Gateway to the Arts program is meant to enrich young people while teaching them more than learning […]
Star-struck students say experience with Anthony Rapp was enlightening and ‘surreal’
SOMERS POINT — When Anthony Rapp finished his July workshop at the Gateway Playhouse, star-struck students all lined up to get autographs and selfies. Rapp, who among his many stage and screen credits originated a role in the Broadway production of “Rent” and starred for five seasons on “Star Trek: Discovery,” spent a full half-hour […]
Dorneys go over-the-top for Night in Venice
OCEAN CITY — For a guy who’s built the bow of a Coast Guard cutter, a 1/16-scale replica of the Space Shuttle, a smoke-spewing Godzilla, a castle and a saloon at his lagoon-front home, Bill Dorney doesn’t drop big bucks when he and his wife Donna decorate for Ocean City’s annual Night in Venice. Dorney, […]
Ocean City Beach Patrol women win OCBP Women’s Lifeguard Invitational
Victory in the final event, the surf dash, seals championship; 14 beach patrols competed See huge photo gallery of all the events below OCEAN CITY — The women of the Ocean City Beach Patrol invited crews from up and down the coast of southern New Jersey to show them what it’s like to be the best. […]
Sticking with it: Girl prepares in advance for taffy-sculpting contest
OCEAN CITY — Sawyer Culp had a plan going into the Wacky Wednesday Taffy Sculpting Contest on July 9, and she was determined to, ahem, stick with it. Shriver’s Salt Water Taffy was in abundance under the loggia at the Ocean City Music Pier as a couple of hundred would-be artists went head to head […]
Free outdoor fitness park in Ocean City
OCEAN CITY – A new outdoor fitness park in Ocean City is open to the public and free for anybody to use. City, county, state and Ocean City Chamber of Commerce officials and Ocean City Healthy Living Advisory Council members gathered July 10 for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the official opening of the new facility. […]
Another ‘Band-Aid’ for Somers Point City Hall? Replacement unlikely
SOMERS POINT — “I feel like this is just another Band-Aid that we’re putting on something that needs major surgery, and it’s costing us thousands and thousands of dollars every single year to maintain this building,” Councilwoman Janice Johnston said July 10. Johnston cast the sole no vote on a resolution to solicit bids for […]
Highbank demolition approved in Somers Point to make way for luxury complex
Council voted 6-0 to adopt the 90 Broadway Redevelopment Plan on July 10, designating the property an area in need of rehabilitation. Councilman Kirk Gerety was absent. The property is adjacent to John F. Kennedy Memorial Park and includes three two-unit bayfront homes and an apartment building. Development plans proposed by Exceler Building Solutions LLC […]
Ocean City Pops concert features enduring songs
OCEAN CITY – Maestro Vince Lee and the Ocean City Pops Orchestra looked back a half-century for songs that have become standards for the concert July 9. Starting each half with sets of George Gershwin arrangements, they went on to the music of Cole Porter and Jerome Kern. Lee called them the “Great American Hit Parade.” […]