Ocean City, Mainland teams’ seasons end in S.J. playoffs
After a rain-filled regular season, the South Jersey Group III playoffs began in high school baseball and lacrosse, but they weren’t kind for the Mainland Mustangs and Ocean City Red Raiders. The baseball playoffs were cut short in heartbreaking fashion as both teams lost by a single run. Mainland and Ocean City also fielded impressive […]
Queen Anne Victorian offers multiple options for living, investment
OCEAN CITY — Options abound for the fortunate next owner of the Queen Anne-style Victorian home at 401 Wesley Ave. in the Northend neighborhood of America’s Greatest Family Resort. With 10 bedrooms, nine bathrooms plus two powder rooms — including a separate apartment and office — the palatial home could continue its life as an […]
Ocean City ‘absolutely safe’ for residents, visitors, officials say
Response was to incidents of teens fighting on boardwalk over Memorial Day weekend OCEAN CITY — At a press conference Thursday afternoon to show Ocean City is a safe place to live and vacation, Assemblyman Antwan McClellan put things in perspective. Referencing videos that swirled around social media showing teens fighting on the boardwalk over […]
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. […]
John H. Andrus II, 83
John H. Andrus II, 83, of Ocean City went to be with the Lord the morning of May 15, 2024. He died peacefully at home, surrounded by his family, after a 4-year battle with metastatic prostate cancer. John was born in Camden, NJ to Dr. David L. Andrus and Bertha Morrison Andrus. John learned to […]
Raider athletes bring home gold medals from CAL track and field championship
BRIDGETON — The Ocean City High School relay teams had an impressive day May 22 at the Cape-Atlantic League Track and Field Championships. The boys and girls 4×800 relays and the girls 4×100 and 4×400 relays all took home gold medals as other Raiders had successful outings. The boys relay, featuring Michael Romano, Nathan Aschmann, […]
Raider baseball wins tournament opener
OCEAN CITY – With the regular season behind them, the Red Raiders baseball team opened the NJSIAA South Jersey Group III playoffs with a win. In the first round, Ocean City High School cruised to a 4-1 victory over Cumberland Regional High School on May 23. After the Raiders stranded four base runners in the […]
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 […]