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…
U.S. Congressman Frank LoBiondo (NJ-02) today announced two Assistance to Firefighters Grants (AFG) totaling $629,806 in federal funding. Since the program began in 2001, New Jersey’s 2nd Congressional District fire and emergency response organizations have received more than $27 million under AFG. “Always welcome news to the men and Read more…
By Maddy Vitale In August of 2015 Lee Neuman’s world was turned upside down. The Cape May Court House mother of three, was diagnosed with breast cancer. Neuman, 67, went into the hospital for a double mastectomy two months later. Radiation to eradicate the cancer was just part of the 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…
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…
The Atlantic City Farmers Market in the Bartram Avenue Park just off the Boardwalk between Bartram and Kingston avenues is celebrating the Jersey Fresh peach harvest 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, July 29. “We’re having Jersey Peach Day,” said market organizer Mark Bolner. The market is one of hundreds Read more…