VENTNOR – The Board of Education got a bit more than it bargained for Tuesday evening when the Board of School Estimate approved its 2019-2020 school budget. Although the board, which is comprised of three city commissioners and two school board members, approved this year’s budget, next year will be Read more…
ATLANTIC CITY – Stockton Women’s Leadership Council Speaker Series: Distinguished Women. Distinctive Voices. will be held 6 p.m. Thursday, April 4 in the Fannie Lou Hamer Event Room at the Stockton University Atlantic City campus. The keynote speak is Ferial Govashiri, the former personal aide to President Barack Obama and current chief of staff Read more…
OCEAN CITY – United Methodist Communities at The Shores will hold two days of presentations in April about Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. The programs are free to the public and will be held at UMC at The Shores, 2201 Bay Ave. in Ocean City. The first is scheduled for Wednesday, Read more…
VENTNOR – St. James Church will hold its annual First Responder Mass 12:30 p.m. Sunday, April 7. The community is invited to attend the Mass to pray for first responders, including police, firefighters, lifeguards, emergency management coordinators and emergency medical technicians, who put their lives in harm’s way to help Read more…
ATLANTIC CITY – Atlantic County Prosecutor Damon G. Tyner will join partner agencies for a National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Forum 6-8:30 p.m., Monday April 8 at Second Baptist Church 110 Rev. Dr. I.S. Cole Plaza. The program will provide an open forum for local law enforcement officials to speak Read more…
VENTNOR – The city will be slowing down motorists and painting a bicycle lanes to make Atlantic Avenue a safer thoroughfare. According to Public Works Supervisor Ed Stinson, Atlantic Avenue will be re-striped to include a bicycle lane, hopefully by the start of the bustling summer holiday season. “We submitted Read more…
TRENTON – Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal and the Division on Civil Rights announced today a settlement that resolves allegations of religion-based housing discrimination brought by an Orthodox Jewish homeowner against an Ocean County 55-and-over community. Homeowner Nathan Reiss filed a discrimination complaint in 2017 against The Enclave at the Read more…
VENTNOR – The Ventnor City Board of School Estimate is scheduled to review the school district’s proposed budget at a public meeting being held at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 2 at Ventnor City Hall, 6201 Ventnor Ave. The board is comprised of the three city commissioners and two Board of Read more…
MARGATE – Starting Monday, April 1 though Friday, April 5, the Margate City Water Department will be conducting citywide fire hydrant flushing between the hours of 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. Residents may experience some clouding of their water and are advised to run the water until clear before doing Read more…
LONGPORT – The borough March 20 introduced its $8.65 million municipal budget with a small tax rate decrease. The amount to be raised by taxation, $6,723,051, is up 11.5 percent over last year’s amount, but the increase includes the first year of collecting the tax to fund the Longport Borough Read more…