MARGATE – Downbeach communities will host a hurricane preparedness meeting 7-8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 21 at the Margate Municipal Building (Union Avenue school), 9001 Winchester Ave. Join community leaders and utility officials to learn what you need to do to be prepared for hurricane season. Representatives from Ventnor, Margate, Longport, Read more…
ATLANTIC CITY – The 8th annual Atlantic City Triathlon will be held Saturday, Aug. 11. More than 1,500 athletes will be swimming the backbay near Bader Field, biking along Route 40 and the Atlantic City Expressway and running over the Albany Avenue bridge onto the World Famous Atlantic City Boardwalk, Read more…
MAYS LANDING – The Board of Education of the Special Services and Vocational School Districts voted Monday to credit more than $3 million in new state aid for ACIT to the sending districts. Under the new school funding allocations, ACIT will receive an additional $3.5 million in state aid for Read more…
By Maddy Vitale The careers of the future are tied to mastering the use of technology, and students at Atlantic Christian School in Egg Harbor Township will have new Chromebooks and computer classes this fall to help prepare them for success. “We have really amped up what we are doing Read more…
The contents tell his Civil Rights story GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP – In 1966, Atlantic City attorney James Cooper, who lived in Margate, spent two weeks in Mississippi representing African-Americans during the height of the Civil Rights era as part of then President John F. Kennedy’s Lawyers Committee For Civil Rights. After Read more…
VENTNOR – The city’s 10th annual National Night Out event, held Tuesday, Aug. 7, offered families more than fun on a summer evening. The event was held on the 35th anniversary of the National Night Out program, which originally encouraged families to turn on their porch lights and enjoy an Read more…
By JOHN WEBER After years of having a number of bills in the New Jersey Legislature attempting to reduce single-use plastic bag pollution, one has finally moved but it is not the exact bill that Surfrider initially advocated for. A bill putting a 5-cent fee on both paper and plastic bags statewide passed Read more…
The Ventnor Cultural Arts Center, Atlantic County Library and the Community Center located at 6500 Atlantic Ave. will be closed today to rid the place of critters. The facilities plan to open on Wednesday, Aug. 8 after they are treated for bedbugs. Bedbugs have been identified in some of the Read more…
VENTNOR – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection are hosting public meetings regarding the New Jersey Back Bays Flood Risk Management study 6-8 p.m.Sept 12 at the Ventnor Educational Community Complex, 400 N. Lafayette Ave. A second meeting will be held Sept.13 in Read more…
By Tim Kelly Margate’s newest attraction made its official debut Friday with rousing cheers, not polite “golf claps.” Congo Falls Adventure Golf is the latest addition to the Downbeach scene, and one of the first major new family entertainment venues to come to Margate in years. Mark Benevento, the President Read more…