By DONALD WITTKOWSKI When Don Johnson joined his father, Sam, in the family’s Ocean City appliance business in the early 1970s, the marketplace was dramatically different than it is today. “When I started, there were seven appliance dealers in Ocean City,” Don recalled. He paused for a moment before adding, Read more…
By DONALD WITTKOWSKI OCEAN CITY – In the first formal vote for the project, the City Council introduced a bond ordinance Thursday night to pay for architectural design services for Ocean City’s proposed $35 million public safety building. The $1.1 million bond ordinance will allow the city to work with Read more…
EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP – The Atlantic County Utilities Authority and the AmeriCorps NJ Watershed Ambassador Program will be holding a “Turkey Time Clean Up” at the Malibu Beach Wildlife Management Area, also known as “Dog Beach” at the foot of the Longport-Ocean City bridge 9 a.m. to noon, Sautrday, Nov. 7. Read more…
By DONALD WITTKOWSKI The agency that oversees the five toll bridges connecting Cape May County’s seashore towns along Ocean Drive, and Ocean City to Atlantic County, approved a 2021 operating budget Thursday that does not include a fare increase for motorists. The Cape May County Bridge Commission has discussed the Read more…
CAROLINA BEACH, N.C. – Two young Ocean City surfers won their divisions at the 2020 National Scholastic Surfing Association East Coast Championships held Sept. 11-13 in Carolina Beach, North Carolina. The top surfers from up and down the coast traveled to enjoy the chance to compete, especially in great surf thanks to Read more…
By MADDY VITALE In less than two weeks the Ocean City School district is opening its doors for the start of the 2020-21 school year. And while the faculty, students and their families, will all navigate the new normal, Board of Education members said the district is ready during a Read more…
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 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…
By NANETTE LoBIONDO GALLOWAY EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP – After viewing a video posted on Facebook showing dog-loving beachgoers illegally parked along Ocean Drive and on the shoulder lanes of the Ocean City-Longport bridge, Egg Harbor Township Police announced it would be strictly enforcing city ordinances prohibiting parking in the area. Read more…
The Southern Regional Medical Examiner’s Office has identified the body of an adult male found floating in the Great Egg Harbor Inlet as Jabed Ikbal, 24, of Clementon, according to a new release. Ikbal entered the water at an unprotected beach on the Great Egg Harbor Inlet just south of Read more…