Sea&Do: Ocean City area events
Colony Club Fashion Show SOMERS POINT – The Colony Club of Ocean City will present its annual Fashion Show Dinner 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 11, at Greate Bay Country Club, 901 Somers Point-Mays Landing Road, Somers Point, Fashions from two Ocean City boutiques, She’z the Boss and Pete’s Mercantile, will be modeled by […]
Ocean City, Wildwood deal with holiday weekend fights, stabbing
Officials vow zero tolerance for bad behavior OCEAN CITY – Public officials issued a stern warning to large groups of unruly teens and young adults after a fight and stabbing on the Ocean City Boardwalk over Memorial Day weekend and as Wildwood was forced to declare a state of emergency to clear its own boardwalk. […]
Mainland Regional hosts Unified Sports Meet as Special Olympics partner
LINWOOD — Amid a morning breeze and warm rays of sunshine, Mainland Regional High School kicked off its third annual Unified Sports Spring Track and Field event May 22. A partnership with New Jersey Special Olympics, the event provided an opportunity for students with disabilities to engage in athletics and foster camaraderie with Unified Partners — […]
Memorial Day honors ultimate sacrifice, recalls POW/MIA
OCEAN CITY – Ralph W. Galati, the keynote speaker at Ocean City’s Memorial Day services, told an overflow crowd at Veterans Memorial Park about the 14 months he spent in Hanoi as a POW during the Vietnam War, but that came as little more than an aside. His focus was not on himself. Galati’s address […]
Ocean City rally continuing the battle against offshore wind farms
OCEAN CITY — A couple of dozen people turned out for the 2nd annual Stop Offshore Wind rally and Bridge Walk on Saturday at Mark Soifer Park, where Republican candidates for state and federal offices criticized the Murphy and Biden administrations for supporting the development of wind farms. Conservative radio host Dan Klein of 1400 […]
Ocean City plunges into summer season
OCEAN CITY – What started as a dreary morning in Ocean City turned for the better when the sun came out to welcome the annual Business Persons Plunge. This year marked the 21st anniversary of a silly Memorial Day weekend tradition to herald in a bountiful tourism season after city officials turn a large wooden […]
Ocean City Fire Chief Jim Smith retiring; Bernie Walker to succeed him
OCEAN CITY – Fire Chief James P. Smith announced his retirement as of July 1. Deputy Chief Bernard F. Walker will succeed him as the next chief of the Ocean City Fire Department. “I want to thank Chief Smith for his 30 years of service to Ocean City and wish him all the best in his […]
Cape May cast as Newport in Dylan biopic
Film producers, stars Elle Fanning and Timothée Chalamet all the buzz CAPE MAY — If you checked into Congress Hall late one night last week and didn’t pay much attention to some classic cars parked nearby, you may have looked out your hotel window the following morning to discover you woke up in the year […]
Legislation returns some aid to school districts
Somers Point, Mainland Regional, Upper Township still face tough decisions Local school districts suffering yet another year of $1 million+ losses in state aid got some relief last week, although mostly on the backs of their local taxpayers. How much it will help with the proposed staff cuts in the Mainland Regional High School, Upper […]