‘Silent Fallout: Baby Teeth Speak’
Japanese film about nuclear contamination with local connections being screened in U.S. Editor’s note: To schedule a screening of the film “Silent Fallout: Baby Teeth Speak” with director Hideaki Ito, email burkeshiho@gmail.com or sachi.com@goldensachi.com. OCEAN CITY — A powerful Japanese film about the impact of radioactive fallout from American nuclear bomb testing will be making […]
Ocean City’s Joseph Mangano heads Radiation and Public Health Project
Book inspired movie ‘Silent Fallout: Baby Teeth Speak’ OCEAN CITY — The Baby Tooth Project initiated in 1958 examined how children across the United States were absorbing a radioactive element because of fallout from nuclear testing in Nevada and distant islands in the Pacific. Ocean City’s Joseph Mangano is executive director of the Radiation and […]
Shiho (Kikuzaki) Burke’s activism spurred by what happened to her family in Hiroshima bombing
OCEAN CITY — Shiho (Kikuzaki) Burke’s peace activism is personal. Her family was in Hiroshima when the U.S. dropped the first nuclear weapon on the city Aug. 6, 1945 to end World War II. She got involved with director Hideaki Ito’s film “Silent Fallout: Baby Teeth Speak” because she share’s the director’s vision. Shiho is […]
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 […]