MARGATE – This year’s Jewish Family Service annual meeting provided an opportunity for staff, board members, volunteers and donors to come together in-person for the first time in two years. At the program June 16, attendees heard about the state of the agency and its continuing evolution and growth as well Read more…
TRENTNON – Police and firefighters who were forced to leave their professions due to service-related injury or illness would get help learning a new career under legislation introduced by NJ Sen. Vince Polistina (R-2). “An individual who chooses a career in emergency services typically does so with the intent of Read more…
SOMERS POINT – Shore Medical Center has announced that Director of Physical Rehabilitation, Jennifer Pesce is the recipient of Shore’s Leadership Profile Award. The award goes to a manager for exemplary job performance and exhibiting characteristics most valued in its leaders. Pesce came to Shore in 1997 as a physical Read more…
MAYS LANDING — Former Atlantic Cape Foundation Board member and Gala supporter Ed Blake of Ventnor was recognized June 22 as the 2022 President’s Distinguished Foundation Board Member for his years of dedicated service to Atlantic Cape Community College. Blake was presented with the award by Atlantic Cape President Barbara Read more…
By NANETTE LoBIONDO GALLOWAY MARGATE – It took rescuers 71 minutes to locate the third victim. Unfortunately, he didn’t make it, but the first and second victims pulled from the ocean Wednesday morning were fine. In fact, one refused medical treatment. That was the scenario that unfolded near Huntington Avenue Read more…
The Ocean City Tabernacle welcomes Focus on the Family’s Greg and Erin Smalley to speak at the 8:30 a.m. traditional and 10:30 a.m. contemporary services on Sunday, July 3. Greg Smalley serves as the vice president of Marriage at Focus on the Family. In this role, he develops and oversees Read more…
VENTNOR – A Fireworks display for the Independence Day holiday will take place 9:30 p.m. Sunday, July 3, following the Ventnor 50th anniversary Mile Run and the concert by the U.S. Air Force Full Spectrum Band on the beach at Newport Avenue. For the safety of the public while the pirotechnicians Read more…
VENTNOR – Approximately two dozen volunteers made quick work of planting 600 plants Tuesday afternoon on a plot of land behind the Ventnor Educational Community Complex. The volunteers came in all shapes and sizes and included young an old all working to improve the environment. The project was made possible Read more…
In the wake of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, a new poll commissioned by Newark-based nonprofit Project Ready finds that a majority of New Jersey parents are worried about a mass shooting at their children’s school and support additional gun safety measures. “When it comes Read more…
TRENTON – A state Grand Jury has declined to file any criminal charges at the conclusion of its deliberations regarding the death of Amir Johnson, 30, of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, who died when three officers of the Ventnor Police Department fired their service weapons at Johnson on Aug. 6, 2020 Read more…