VENTNOR – Just a month after announcing she would run with Atlantic County Freeholder Chairman Frank Formica in the 2019 race for New Jersey Assembly in District 2, Ventnor Mayor Beth Maccagnano Holtzman said she would drop out of the race for health reasons. Holtzman, 56, announced Nov. 18 that Read more…
MAYS LANDING – U.S. Congressman Frank LoBiondo (NJ-02) this week joined colleagues in the Congress in a bipartisan effort opposing the president’s plans to allow seismic airgun blasting in the Atlantic Ocean. Trump administration recently announced it would allow five companies to bid for the rights to conduct seismic airgun Read more…
ATLANTIC CITY – Attorney James M. Savio of Margate has joined the Casino and Hospitality Industry Defense Litigation Practice Group at Cooper Levenson. Savio will work in the firm’s Atlantic City office. Savio was a summer law clerk in the Casino and Hospitality Industry Defense Litigation Practice Group at Cooper Read more…
ATLANTIC CITY – Elvis Cadavid and his staff at Vagabond Kitchen and Tap House get about 10 extra unplanned vacation days every year. Those are the high-tide, full-moon days when the intersection of the Black Horse Pike/Route 40 and West End Avenue floods and the restaurant is surrounded by a Read more…
Downbeach holiday events Downbeach communities know how to celebrate the holidays, whether it’s Hannukah, Christmas or Kwanzaa, there’s lots of family fun to be had during December. Ventnor Dec. 7 Santa Claus is Coming to Town and will be touring homes in city with the Ventnor City Fire Department and Read more…
Ken Wisnefski, founder and CEO of the digital marketing firm WebiMax, was honored by the Philadelphia Business Journal as one of 2018’s Most Admired CEOs at a gala event at the Ritz-Carlton in Philadelphia on Thursday evening. WebiMax was founded in 2008 and currently has over 100 employees located Read more…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Donald Trump Tuesday, Dec. 4 signed the Frank LoBiondo Coast Guard Authorization Act, which was named in honor of the retiring congressman. LoBiondo, of Ventnor, who did not run for re-election this year, has been a member of the House Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommitte for Read more…
VENTNOR – The city held a public menorah lighting Wednesday, Dec. 5 at the Ventnor Shul. Chabad at the Shore Rabbi Avrohom Rapoport addressed the crowd gathered outside the temple to assure them that the light coming from Ventnor’s menorah is enough to overcome all the darkness in the world. Read more…
By Maddy Vitale A customer walking into Josie Kelly’s Public House in Somers Point might feel as if he or she crossed over “the pond.” Irish music fills the air, as people sit at communal tables, making it nearly impossible not to start a conversation with a stranger. Waitresses and Read more…
MARGATE – Incumbent Commissioners Michael Becker, John Amodeo and Maury Blumberg announced Wednesday, Dec. 5 their plan to run as a team in the May 2019 Board of Commissioners election. Becker, who is seeking his fourth term in office, and Amodeo, his second, will be joined by incumbent Commissioner Maury Read more…