Combined tax rate rising 4.6 cents in Linwood
LINWOOD — Property owners in Linwood will see their taxes increase this year after budgets were finalized for the city, local and regional schools and county. Combined, the tax rate is set to rise 4.6 cents per $100 of assessed value, or $46 for every $100,000. The owner of a home assessed at the average, […]
School board, committee raise taxes in Upper Township
PETERSBURG — The Upper Township Board of Education approved its $37,339,800 budget for 2023-24 on April 24 with a 2.3-cent tax rate increase, about a month after Township Committee adopted its budget with a 2.8-cent hike. According to a presentation by Business Administrator Laurie Ryan, the school tax rate would increase to $1.46 per $100 […]
Ocean City budget introduced with 1.77-cent tax rate increase
OCEAN CITY — Ocean City Council voted April 27 to introduce the $98.9 million municipal budget that carries a 1.77-cent tax rate increase. The budget is largely unchanged from when the Gillian Administration presented it to council in March. Spending is up nearly $8.4 million, or 9.26 percent, from the 2022 budget, but a combination […]
Seaspray condominium red-tagged, deemed unsafe
OCEAN CITY — The residents of the Seaspray condominiums at the corner of Bay Avenue and 34th Street were forced out last week when the building was red-tagged as an unsafe structure. The fate of the building — including whether it will be repaired or sold and demolished — remains up in the air. The […]
Will Martin Z. Mollusk see his shadow for 50th time?
Busy summer of activities ahead in Ocean City OCEAN CITY — It’s perhaps a bit unscientific, but renowned meteorological mollusk Martin Z. is poised to make what could be a milestone prediction May 5 when he comes out of winter hibernation to determine if summer will come a week early to America’s Greatest Family Resort […]
Paying it forward: Children’s clothes collection teaches a lesson
OCEAN CITY — Third-grader Harper Juelg wasn’t content to sit back after starting a clothes drive for her grandmother’s nonprofit organization in Tanzania. The Ocean City Primary School student got on the public address system and went around the school to get her peers to donate clothes to children in need halfway around the world. […]
Search commences for superintendent
OCSD leader serves one year OCEAN CITY – The Ocean City Board of Education formally began its search for a new superintendent of schools last week to replace Matthew Friedman, who served at most about half a year before deciding to search for a new job. At a special meeting Tuesday, April 18, the school […]
Northfield pulls out of central Atlantic County court, joins Hammonton
NORTHFIELD — City Council voted April 18 to withdraw from the Central Municipal Court of Atlantic County and to partner with Hammonton. Councilman Brian Smith, who oversees shared services, said the benefits fell short of what the county promised financially and in other ways. “We’re not realizing the savings that we had anticipated,” he said. […]
Get Real: Maddie Brady’s mental health podcast
Ocean City native talks about her own struggles as she interviews guests on overcoming theirs OCEAN CITY — Looking at glamorous lives on social media platforms can be deceiving because what appears is carefully curated. It can make everyday people whose realities are not so spectacular reluctant to open up about their own imperfect lives. […]
Somers Point planners approve ALDI
If state gives OK, store developers also would improve intersection SOMERS POINT — City officials went shopping for improvements and picked up a huge order of infrastructure upgrades at the planned ALDI Food Market last week. The Planning Board on April 19 unanimously approved an application to build the market at the junction of Route […]