MARGATE – It’s time for a celebration! Resident Fran Harris is turning 104 years old on Wednesday, April 29. She is believed to be the city’s oldest resident. The Recreation Department is hoping you will join in the birthday fun and provide homemade birthday cards or traditional cards to make Read more…
ATLANTIC CITY – The Atlantic City Convention Center reached the final step in opening as one of the state’s Field Medical Stations as NJ Gov. Phil Murphy, along with the NJ Department of Health and other state, county and local officials, toured the facility earlier this morning. As owner of Read more…
Three elderly Hammonton women with pre-existing health conditions have become the latest Atlantic County fatalities related to COVID-19, county health officials confirmed. The deaths of an 87-year old, 90-year old and 92-year old were reported earlier today, Tuesday, April 21, along with 52 additional county residents who have tested positive Read more…
By NANETTE LoBIONDO GALLOWAY VENTNOR – The building is complete and now it’s time to wipe away the construction debris, do a little decorating and fire up the pizza ovens for the much anticipated Santucci’s Original Square Pizza restaurant built at the site of the old Arrow Hardware store in Read more…
The Atlantic County Clerk’s office has announced that beginning April 24, it will begin mailing vote-by-mail ballots to all registered voters for Ventnor’s May 12 municipal election. Ventnor registered voters will receive the following items in their Vote-by-Mail package: Ballot Certificate envelope Prepaid postage return envelope Vote-by-Mail ballot completion instructions Read more…
By STEVE JASIECKI Wake up early in the morning just before morning twilight, and you will be able to see three planets in line and in close proximity. Mars, Saturn and Jupiter can be seen very clearly before dawn in the southeast sky forming a straight line tracing out a Read more…
LONGPORT – Police here arrested a man and a woman Sunday, April 19 and charged them with numerous offenses, including theft, eluding and drug possession. According to the Longport Police, it was 4:47 a.m. when Officers Christopher Ricciotti and Albert Maiorano came across two suspicious individuals near 23rd Avenue. As Read more…
BRIGANTINE – The planning committee organizing the second annual Jim Whelan Open Water Festival, featuring the 55th Around The Island™ Swim, has postponed the event until 2021. “As the length of time public health guidelines continue to be extended, difficult decisions need to be made with regards to large-scale events. And Read more…
ATLANTIC CITY – Residents and businesses in Downbeach area are being asked to conserve water to minimize flow of water through a broken force main discharging into the bay near Bader Field. The Atlantic City Office of Emergency Management was notified Sunday morning that a leak in a 30-inch main Read more…
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP – The Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center at Stockton University will commemorate the annual Holocaust Remembrance ceremony, Yom HaShoah: Unto Every Person There Is A Name, with a weeklong series of programs on the Stockton Public Access TV channel (Comcast local channel 9) April 20-27. Yom HaShoah Read more…