MARGATE – On Tuesday Jan, 21 at approximately 12:42 p.m. the Margate City Police Department received a 911 call in reference to an assault that occurred at a private residence. Officers along with members of the Margate City Fire Department’s ambulance crew and medics arrived at the residence and discovered Read more…
MARGATE – The Milton & Betty Katz JCC, 501 N. Jerome Ave., will hold a live simulcast of the commemoration ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau that is being broadcast from Poland, 9:30-11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 27. The commemoration ceremony will be held at the site of Read more…
MARGATE – The Anglers Club of Absecon Island Tuesday received its first shipment of materials needed to extend the Margate pier 300 feet into the ocean. Some of the heavy lumber needed to build the extension was delivered to the landward side of the sand dune through the vehicle access Read more…
MARGATE – After statewide legislation to ban the distribution of single-use plastic and paper bags failed to garner full support in the NJ Assembly, Sustainable Margate volunteers have asked the city to reconsider its prior request to institute a ban on plastic bags. “We were one of the first. We Read more…
MARGATE – The Margate Business Association has announced its 2020 Daniel and Maria Walters Scholarship Program. The MBA will award two $2,500 scholarship to high school seniors who attended the Margate City schools and will be seeking higher education. Last year’s recipients were Alec Freedman and Jake LaMonaca. Scholarship funds Read more…
MARGATE – The Milton & Betty Katz Jewish Community Center has announced its lineup for its Summer 2020 Entertainment Series. First up 7 p.m. Thursday, July 9 is recording artist Maureen McGovern, whose career includes Broadway and the Oscar-winning song, The Morning After. McGovern will take the audience on a Read more…
MARGATE – It will be many more months until those long-promised bike racks will be installed at strategic locations in Ventnor and Margate. According to Margate Zoning Officer Roger McLarnon, the bike racks promised to Ventnor and Margate in 2017 likely won’t be installed until late fall. It was March Read more…
MARGATE – “It’s a great day for the City of Margate and our Fire Department,” Commissioner of Public Safety John Amodeo said Thursday, Jan. 16 before a packed crowd gathered at Historic City Hall to see three Margate firefighters promoted to higher ranks. All three officers raised through the ranks Read more…
MARGATE – There’s romance in the air as Lucy the Elephant plans “Sweetheart’s Dinner,” an evening for lovers and friends inside the iconic structure. After a 10 year absence, Lucy the Elephant will host a four-course gourmet experience with two seatings on Valentines Day, Feb. 14. Award-winning Chef Jason Tell Read more…
MARGATE – Beauty is in the eye of the ogre as students at the Eugene A. Tighe Middle School perform DreamWorks Animation’s Shrek The Musical Jr. Thursday through Saturday at the Dominick A. Potena Performing Arts Center. Based on the Oscar-winning film, Shrek, the ogre, leads a cast of fairy Read more…