MAYS LANDING- A Ventnor City woman charged with the murders of her mother and grandmother was extradited to New Jersey after she fled to New York City following the killings, Atlantic County Prosecutor Damon G. Tyner announced Thursday, Aug. 2. Heather Barbera, 41, is charged with two counts of first degree murder, third degree Read more…
MARGATE – Philadelphia football fans will continue celebrating the big Super Bowl win with veteran Eagles long-snapper Jon Dorenbos at the fourth annual Jackie and Hank Herskowitz Sports Night event 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 16 at the Milton Betty Katz JCC, 501 N. Jerome Ave. “We’re honored to have this Read more…
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP – Stockton University has completed the sale of Stockton Seaview Hotel & Golf Club to KDG Capital LLC of Florida for $21,070,000. The sale was completed on July 31, according to a release. “We are proud to have owned this iconic property and confident that the new owners Read more…
By BILL LECONEY MARGATE – Through all the years and miles of enduring choppy, cold-water ocean currents or swimming against the tide to the brink of physical exhaustion, Victoria Dolceamore remembers the words of Jim Whelan. “Just keep swimming,” the swim teacher, Atlantic City mayor and state legislator used to Read more…
MARGATE – Beth Israel Synagoge of Northfield held the first of its annual beach services Friday, July 20 on the beach at Huntington Avenue. Rabbi David M. Weis and Cantor Larisa Averbakh led the congregation in a special Shabbat service for the occasion. The beach service is an annual tradition Read more…
VENTNOR – The Planning Board spent nearly two hours Monday July 30 listening to concerns from St. Leonard’s Tract residents before it decides if it will rezone three undeveloped lots along the boardwalk. The board took their comments, which were mostly against making any changes to the R-1 zone, under Read more…
MAYS LANDING — The Atlantic Cape Community College Foundation Board of Trustees elected three new officers and reappointed several others when it met in June for its annual reorganization meeting. New board members include Vincent M. D’Alessandro of Toms River, president of southern region OceanFirst Bank; Roseann Kobialka of New Read more…
VENTNOR – Pleased with the interest in serving on the newly formed ad hoc Citizens Advisory Committee, the Board of Commissioners agreed to increase the number of members who can serve. The commissioners will amend Ordinance 2018-025, which created the ad hoc committee, to include as many as 15 full- Read more…
VENTNOR – Two children of Holocaust survivors, including Lennard Hammerschlag of Atlantic City, traced their family roots in July when they traveled with two Stockton University faculty members to their parents’ hometowns in Germany, bringing with them a Torah from the Lauenau synagogue, which Adolf Hammerschlag took with him into Read more…
VENTNOR – The Board of Commissioners introduced an ordinance Tuesday, July 26 to re-establish the time limit for access to the Viking Rowing Club dock to when the club is open. For the last two years, the gate to the dock has been locked when rowing club members leave the Read more…