OCEAN CITY – Multiple agencies completed the investigation of a four-alarm fire at Playland’s Castaway Cove on the Ocean City Boardwalk and announced Monday that preliminary findings determined the fire was accidential. A undetermined electrical source near the front of the building caused the fire, according to a city press release. Read more…
OCEAN CITY – Personnel from multiple agencies will be in Ocean City this week as the investigation into the Jan. 30 fire at Playland’s Castaway Cove continues, according to a city press release. Agencies involved in the investigation include the Ocean City Fire Department Investigation Unit, Cape May County Fire Read more…
By MADDY VITALE OCEAN CITY – A fire that broke out early Saturday morning at Playland Castaway Cove’s arcade on the Ocean City Boardwalk caused extensive damage to the building and left thick black clouds of smoke in its wake. But Playland’s signature outdoor amusements that tower over the Boardwalk Read more…
OCEAN CITY – Multiple fire companies and emergency responders responded this morning to battle a fire on the Ocean City Boardwalk at the Playland’s Castaway Cove amusement park. Video showed firefighters spraying water on the iconic pirate ship replica that serves as Playland’s main entrance overlooking the boardwalk between 10th Read more…
By DONALD WITTKOWSKI Extending an impressive 635 feet from the Boardwalk, over the beach and out into the ocean, the Ocean City Fishing Club pier is an enormous structure. Now, what is already the longest manmade attraction in Ocean City is about to get even longer. Work has started on Read more…
By ANDREW J. LUCA The sun. The sand. The surf. All images that remind us of happy times spent with family and friends at the Jersey Shore. Many are drawn to these iconic past times year after year, leading to a housing boom along the coast. While family gatherings and Read more…
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…