By DONALD WITTKOWSKI WILDWOOD – Four congressmen and a panel of expert witnesses denounced plans for a series of offshore wind energy projects as a mass “industrialization” of the ocean that will cause environmental harm and could seriously damage the Jersey Shore’s tourism industry. The congressional hearing Thursday at the Read more…
By NANETTE LoBIONDO GALLOWAY SOMERS POINT – Several local business associations are uniting under an umbrella organization to collaborate and strengthen the business community following the COVID-19 pandemic years. On Tuesday, March 15, 109 members of the Brigantine, Somers Point, Margate and Ventnor business associations gathered with the Greater Atlantic Read more…
TRENTON – New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced today that attorney Yolanda Melville will serve as senior counsel and director of Community Engagement. She will serve as a liaison to community stakeholders across the state to connect with the office’s initiatives. “Yolanda brings with her a litigator’s sharp eye Read more…
SOMERS POINT – The Margate Business Association and Ventnor Business Association will participate in a multi-association mixer 5:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 14 at Josie Kelly’s Public House on Shore Road. Other participating business associations, including Brigantine, will join the Greater Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce in an effort to build Read more…
WILDWOOD – U.S. Congressman Jeff Van Drew will hold a hearing March 16 to gather information from industries and groups affected by the development of offshore wind energy projects along the East Coast. Van Drew’s Second Congressional District includes the shore communities in Atlantic and Cape May counties. He will Read more…
By NANETTE LoBIONDO GALLOWAY ATLANTIC CITY – The 40th annual Atlantic Cape Community College Restaurant Gala held at Harrah’s Waterfront Conference Center Thursday, March 9 raised a record amount of money in support of students at the college’s Academy of Culinary Arts. The Ruby Gala not only honored student chefs Read more…
By NANETTE LoBIONDO GALLOWAY VENTNOR – An Atlantic City High School senior working toward obtaining Eagle Scout rank finished his project to provide Downbeach residents with a convenient way to dispose of torn, tatterd and faded American flags. Daniel Cohen, 17, of Ventnor, developed his Eagle Scout project with the Read more…
By NANETTE LoBIONDO GALLOWAY LONGPORT – American Legion Post 469 will be honoring former Longport Beach Patrol Chief Capt. James Turner and five U.S. Coast Guardsmen who perished in a daring rescue attempt during the nor’easter storm of March 6, 1932. Legionnaires are planning a brief but meaningful service at Read more…
VENTNOR – The city lost a treasure this week with the passing of Holocaust survivor, author and public speaker I. Betty Grebenschikoff, a longtime summer resident. Grebenschikoff made it her life’s mission to educate others, including the children of Ventnor, about her experiences during the Nazi regime in Germany, Read more…
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP – “You want my story?” Elimanuel Aviles-Barreto has been in a coma five times, clinically dead twice, stabbed twice and shot an inch down from his heart — all of those incidents tied to drug use and life on the streets. His story may be a familiar one Read more…