WASHINGTON, D.C. – After the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced Wednesday that it will conduct a wind lease auction for 480,000 acres of ocean in the New York Bight area of the Atlantic, the Fisheries Survival Fund, which represents the vast majority of full-time Atlantic sea scallop fishermen, called on federal Read more…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland Wednesday, Jan. 12 announced the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will hold a wind auction next month for more than 480,000 acres offshore New York and New Jersey, in the area known as the New York Bight. Secretary Haaland was joined Read more…
By NANETTE LoBIONDO GALLOWAY VENTNOR – The newly re-formed Ventnor Business Association is accepting applications for membership. Membership will allow business owners to unite and communicate their needs and grow a vision for the business community. The association received 80 shows of support for its first major event – bringing Read more…
VENTNOR – Atlantic Cape Community College is hosting a series of Family Information Sessions at area libraries over the next two months, including at the Ventnor City Library, that are designed to give prospective students and their families or caregivers information on all Atlantic Cape has to offer, ways to Read more…
MARGATE – The Milton & Betty Katz Jewish Community Center has announced that Brian Adler is the center’s new director of development and associate executive director. Adler will work to streamline the organization’s current fundraising and development plan and assist with oversite of various departments and services the JCC provides to the Read more…
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP – A team of assessors from the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police will examine all aspects of the Stockton University Police Department policies and procedures Tuesday and Wednesday Feb. 8 and 9. “Verification by the team that the Stockton University Police Department meets the commission’s Read more…
EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP – The Atlantic County Police Training Center will be testing for alternate route positions for the Basic Course for Police Officers, Class #26. The test will be administered 6 p.m. Feb. 23 at the Canale Training Center, 5033 English Creek Ave. The Alternate Route program allows for Read more…
MAYS LANDING – Atlantic County Sheriff Eric Scheffler promoted three officers to the ranks of lieutenant and sergeant Tuesday Jan. 11. Two of the three positions are needed to supervise the newly formed County Municipal Court Program. Darren Aberman, Adam Erskine and Dave Nguyen, are more than qualified to hold Read more…
EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP – Hector Tavarez of Egg Harbor Township, a Democrat, has announced he will challenge Republican Jeff Van Drew in New Jersey’s 2nd Congressional Legislative District in November. Born in Hammonton, Tavarez, who retired as a captain in the Egg Harbor Township Police Department, grew up Mullica Township Read more…
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP – Catherine and Marcell Renny lost everything in their lives twice. The first time was during the Holocaust, when Catherine was forced into concentration camps and Marcell into the Hungarian Labor Service. The second time was when they and their two sons escaped Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution Read more…