By NANETTE LoBIONDO GALLOWAY MARGATE – The honeymoon is over. The newly seated members of the Board of Commissioners Thursday, June 1 fielded the first complaint about their brief tenure. After a resident said they are not living up to their campaign promise to involve the community in their decisions, Read more…
By NANETTE LoBIONDO GALLOWAY MARGATE – The South Jersey Transportation Planning Organization in partnership with the New Jersey Department of Transportation recently announced the award of six federal grants totaling $5.2 million through the Transportation Alternatives Set-aside Program. Seventeen applications requesting approximately $18 million were received from municipalities in the SJTPO Read more…
MARGATE – Newly installed Mayor Michael Collins is seeking candidates to serve on the Margate City Board of Education. The resignation of school board President Cathy Horn, who was also recently sworn-in as a city commissioner has created a vacancy on the school board. The Margate school district is a Read more…
MARGATE – Pamela Shuman, owner of Pamela’s Health & Harmony, wanted to give back to her community to make a difference. She started by donating a gift certificate to be used for an event prize or auction item, then began donating products from the store to the agency’s pantry. Most Read more…
MARGATE – Fool Moon Theatre Company is auditioning for the deviously hilarious murder myster “Clue” 4-6 p.m. Sunday, June 11, and 6-8 p.m. Monday, June 12, at the Margate Community Church, 8900 N. Ventnor Ave. (entrance on Thurlow Avenue). Fool Moon is seeking six men and six women for the Read more…
MARGATE – Calvin Donahue, a 2022 summa cum Laude graduate of Mainland Regional High School, was awarded an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Donahue spent the last year at California Polytechnic State University on an Army ROTC Scholarship. While at Mainland he served as captain of the Read more…
By NANETTE LoBIONDO GALLOWAY MARGATE – About 200 people sat in the Dominick A. Potena Performing Arts Center on a rainy Saturday afternoon to hear area politicians and advocates seek the truth about the effects offshore wind farms will have on the Jersey shore. Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-2) said Read more…
By NANETTE LoBIONDO GALLOWAY MARGATE – Following the swearing-in of the candidates who were victorious in the May 9 Board of Commissioners election, newly sworn Commissioner Michael Collins was elected to serve as Margate’s mayor for the next four years. The vote was not unanimous. Commissioner Maury Blumberg, who entered Read more…
By NANETTE LoBIONDO GALLOWAY MARGATE – Board of Education President Cathy Horn May 10 excused herself from the dais and turned her gavel over to Vice-president Joel Frankel to fill her role until a new president is appointed at the board’s May 16 reorganization meeting. Horn pledged to continue her Read more…
By NANETTE LoBIONDO GALLOWAY MARGATE – It was only a 10-minute meeting, but it included lots of love for Margate and the people who assisted the Board of Commissioners over the last 16 years. First up was approving the 2023 municipal budget, which includes no increases in taxes for property Read more…