By NANETTE LoBIONDO GALLOWAY LONGPORT – The borough learned yesterday that FEMA will award the municipality a $849,375 grant to continue its Winchester Avenue Resiliency Project. The grant, the second awarded by the government agency for stormwater improvements in Longport, will fund the replacement and installation of storm sewer infrastructure Read more…
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP – The Boys & Girls Club of Atlantic City will soon hold its annual fundraiser to support the club that many kids call their second home. The 13th annual Golf Fore Kids will be held Sept. 28 at Seaview Golf Club and Resort, 401 S. New York Road Read more…
Each week, residents get a chance to play word games on the large screen IN2L computer at Seashore Gardens Living Center. At the most recent session in August, they took turns guessing letters for hangman, words for the crossword puzzle, and chatting about the week’s theme, which was country fair. Read more…
MAYS LANDING – A Westhampton man was charged Wednesday, Aug. 30 with the first-degree murder of a Ventnor man housed in the Atlantic County Justice Facility, according to a release from Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office. Aahznier Hayes, 22, of Westhampton, was charged in the beating death of Kenneth Raymond, 52, Read more…
The Ocean City Tabernacle welcomes the 62nd Chaplain of the U.S. Senate, Barry Black, to speak at the 8:30 a.m. traditional and 10:30 a.m. contemporary services Sunday, Sept. 3. A favorite Tabernacle speaker for many years, this is Chaplain Black’s first appearance in Ocean City since the pandemic. After 27 Read more…
Downbeach towns will be conducting their annual 9/11 remembrance services on Monday, Sept. 11. Longport’s annual 9/11 ceremony will be held 9 a.m. at Thomas B. Reed Park at the foot of the Longport bridge. Firefighters, police and members of American Legion Post 469 will place wreaths memory of those lost Read more…
EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP – Most Atlantic County residents have hazardous waste in their cabinets, basements, or garages. Cleaning products, motor oils, insecticides, oil-based paints, and rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are just a few hazardous items that cannot be disposed of in regular curbside trash cans. Hazardous waste can pollute waterways and Read more…
Dr. Pranathi Reddy is an oral surgeon who has helped countless patients needing wisdom teeth removal. Many people fear oral surgery and will do what they can to prevent a procedure. Still, wisdom teeth extraction is often a necessity and a standard procedure. While about 35 percent of the population Read more…
WEST LONG BRANCH – A majority of New Jerseyans continue to favor the development of offshore wind energy, but the current level of support is far below the widespread backing it has received in polls over the prior 15 years, according to the results of a Monmouth University poll released on Read more…
By NANETTE LoBIONDO GALLOWAY As those of the Jewish faith approach the High Holidays of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, when they attone for their sins and celebrate a new year, all three Downbeach communities have approved resolutions denouncing antisemitism and calling for education and healing. Longport Commissioner James Leeds Read more…