ATLANTIC CITY – A favorite stocking stuffer for your favorite dining companion will not be available this year. The Casino Reinvestment Development Authority has announced that Atlantic City Restaurant Week, usually held in March, will be postponed until fall 2021. Restaurant Week was slated to be held March 7-12, 2021, Read more…
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP – Stockton University is partnering with the New Jersey CannaBusiness Association and the Cannabis Industrial Marketplace for a virtual New Jersey Cannabis Career Fair and Business Expo, Dec. 9-10. The event will include more than 20 seminars plus exhibitors from cannabis and cannabis related companies looking to network Read more…
Although Downbeach police and firefighters will not be asking you to Stuff the Cruiser filled with toys this year, they are hoping you will stuff the lobby instead. Local Downbeach police and fire departments have kicked off this year’s Atlantic County Toys For Kids program by opening their lobbies for Read more…
Longport Public Library is lifting holiday spirit with its new Holiday Reading Program, which will take place Nov. 30 through Dec. 31. Longport’s Holiday Reading Program is one of the many new programs Longport is offering this season. “We want to offer as many new activities and programs for our Read more…
By NANETTE LoBIONDO GALLOWAY NORTHFIELD – Atlantic County Board of Chosen Freeholders, soon to be called the Board of Commissioners, Tuesday, Nov. 17 approved a $9,720,139 contract for “signalization” of 28 intersections along County Route 629. The contract was awarded to L. Feriozzi Concrete Company to mill and surface 24 Read more…
MAYS LANDING – Atlantic County Sheriff Eric Scheffler has partnered with the Handbags for Homeless Women program to distribute career wear handbags to women in need. Mays Landing resident Jennie Ayers and her partners in Handbags for Homeless Women provided the Sheriff’s Office Hope I Program with 10 handbags to Read more…
A favorite stocking stuffer will become available this week in Downbeach communities. The holiday version of the beach tags make great holiday gifts and will available while supplies last. Longport holiday beach tags go on sale beginning Wednesday, Nov. 18 at Borough Hall, 2305 Atlantic Ave. during normal business hours. Read more…
Submitted by STEVE JASIECKI ATLANTIC CITY – The little peninsula that juts into the wetlands on the corner of North Annapolis and West End Avenues got a much-needed cleanup on Veterans Day. Stockton students and other volunteers swept the area to remove illegally dumped trash and litter from the fragile Read more…
ATLANTIC CITY – A holiday food distribution will be held beginning 10 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 19 at Bader Field for unemployed casino and hospitality industry workers. The food distribution is a public-private partnership between state and local governments, casino industry, and union representatives, which includes Local 54 providing boots-on-the- ground Read more…
By NANETTE LoBIONDO GALLOWAY NORTHFIELD – The number of COVID-19 cases is rising rapidly as the nation approaches the Thanksgiving holiday season. On Saturday, Nov. 14, the county reported a one-day increase of 170 new positives among 79 males, ages 2-94, and 91 females, ages 3 months to 87. There Read more…