By MADDY VITALE State Police Thursday identified two men who were thrown from a boat that washed ashore on a north end beach in Ocean City the day before. As a result of the Wednesday morning accident, Philip Azzante, 59, of Alloway, Salem County, suffered fatal injuries, according to State Police. Read more…
By NANETTE LoBIONDO GALLOWAY LONGPORT – Police Chief Frank Culmone recently completed the NJ Certified Public Manager program, a nationally accredited program that develops public and nonprofit managers, administrators and organizational leaders. The program is administered by the NJ Civil Service Commission through Rutgers University Newark’s School of Public Affairs Read more…
By MADDY VITALE One person is dead and another was being treated in a case that began Wednesday morning with a boat that washed ashore without any passengers in the north end waters of Ocean City. The call came in at 11:58 a.m. and State Police Atlantic City Marine Station Read more…
LONGPORT – “Man plans, and God laughs.” Members of Longport Public Library’s Sandy Pages Book Club were surprised to learn that this Yiddish proverb was the inspiration for its August book pick, “If You Want to Make God Laugh” by South African-born author Bianca Marais. The group welcomed Marais to Read more…
By NANETTE LoBIONDO GALLOWAY LONGPORT – Police Chief Frank Culmone has advised residents that a recent effort by the Atlantic County Sheriff and Prosecutor that enables residents to use an online app to inform law enforcement about problems in the neighborhood could circumvent a prompt response from local police. Galloway Read more…
By NANETTE LoBIONDO GALLOWAY LONGPORT – Cutbacks at the U.S. Postal Service has raised the ire of at least one resident who informed the Board of Commissioners about problems in 08403. After agreeing there is a problem, Mayor Nicholas Russo penned a letter to federal officials requesting services be restored. On Read more…
The Longport Public Library will host an author visit with best-selling author Ann Napolitano 6 p.m. Monday. Aug. 24. Although tickets for the event with information about how to access the author visit have been claimed, the library has a wait list in the event tickets become available. Napolitano is Read more…
By NANETTE LoBIONDO GALLOWAY LONGPORT – The Board of Commissioners last month revised its trash and recycling collection regulations to allow residents to put out the trash along with recycling, which is collected weekly during the summer months. The previously approved resolution setting 6 p.m. as the earliest time for Read more…
By NANETTE LoBIONDO GALLOWAY LONGPORT – A longstanding Catholic tradition will go on this year with a new twist. Instead of holding a Mass at Holy Trinity Parish’s Church of the Epiphany, Mass celebrating the Feast of the Assumption, which Catholics believe is the day Mary, the virgin mother of Read more…
The Longport Beach Patrol has just announced that Longport beaches would be closed to swimming Tuesday, Aug. 4 due to tropical storm Isaias. The tropical storm is expected to be upgraded to hurricane status before it hits land in Florida later today. It will skirt the East Coast, affecting every Read more…