Beginning July 10, produce vouchers for low-income county residents 60 years and older will be available on a first-come, first-served basis while supplies last at county senior centers and several senior housing complexes. The vouchers, distributed by the Atlantic County Division of Intergenerational Services, allow recipients to purchase locally grown Read more…
MAYS LANDING – The Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes Unit is seeking the public’s help in solving two fatal shootings that occurred withing three days of one another in July 2015. In July 2015, the Major Crimes Unit investigated six homicides in the Atlantic County area and assistance Read more…
ATLANTIC CITY – The William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy and the Coastal Research Center at Stockton University will host their second Jersey Shore Beach Report 10:30 a.m. Monday, July 1 at the Stockton University Atlantic City Academic Center, 3711 Atlantic Ave. The event is free and open to Read more…
NEWARK – The excitement and spectacle of the ShopRite LPGA Classic presented by Acer may have left the Stockton Seaview Hotel and Golf Club in Galloway, but the charitable imprint of the early June event endures – thanks in part of the Horizon Healthy Steps Challenge. LPGA pros Pernilla Lindberg and Read more…
ATLANTIC CITY – Jermaine Bethea, 17, a junior at Egg Harbor Township High School, performed his original song, “Wasting Time,” during the 71st annual NJ Broadcasters Association Conference held at Tropicana Atlantic City Thursday, June 13. Bethea was the second-place winner of the 15th annual Shout Down Drugs music competition Read more…
ABSECON – Join Together Atlantic County, a countywide substance misuse prevention coalition, has announced the winners of an underage drinking PSA contest for Atlantic County sixth through eighth graders. The theme of the contest was a message to parents from youth about the dangers of underage drinking or providing alcohol to Read more…
TRENTON – Gov. Phil Murphy this week announced free distribution of the opioid overdose reversal drug naloxone at participating pharmacies throughout New Jersey on June 18. The one-day distribution of free naloxone is part of a pilot program approved by the New Jersey Board of Pharmacy. As part of the governor’s Read more…
TRENTON – Although there was no grand prize winner Tuesday, June 4, New Jersey Lottery Acting Executive Director James Carey announced on the NJ Lottery website that there were three $10,000 third-tier prizewinning tickets sold for the drawing, one of which was sold at the English Creek ShopRite in Egg Read more…
TRENTON – The NJ Department of Environmental Protection is advising the public that clinging jellyfish have been confirmed in a salt pond near a bathing area in North Wildwood, the first time this species has been found this far south in New Jersey. Ranging from about the size of a Read more…
ATLANTIC CITY – The Atlantic City Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. recently donated $5,000 to the AMI Foundation’s Dr. Jan Astin Mobile Digital Mammography Van. The funds will be used to provide free mammograms screenings for women in Atlantic County. “We are very grateful to Delta Sigma Read more…