By DONALD WITTKOWSKI and MADDY VITALE SEA ISLE CITY – Republican Congressman Jeff Van Drew declared victory Tuesday night in the hotly contested 2nd Congressional District race that pitted the incumbent against Democratic challenger Amy Kennedy. Unofficial results showed Van Drew with about a 10,000-vote lead over Kennedy with 141,203 Read more…
By DONALD WITTKOWSKI SEA ISLE CITY – If you need a good book for some light reading on the beach, you’re in luck. If you need directions to Portugal, Moscow and some other far-flung places, you’re covered. Or if you simply need a laugh to lift your spirits for the Read more…
By DONALD WITTKOWSKI Run for your lives! Sea Isle City has been invaded by aliens from another planet! Actually, the towering, three-legged contraption that has been crawling along Sea Isle’s beachfront and appears to be something from outer space is a giant CRAB. Not your typical, run-of-the-mill Jersey Shore crab, Read more…
By TIM KELLY Imagine a free dinner for you and nine friends and/or family members at Mike’s Seafood & Dock Restaurant in Sea Isle City. One lucky friend on Mike Seafood’s Facebook page won’t have to imagine it: The winner of a new promotion for the landmark seafood store and Read more…
By DONALD WITTKOWSKI Erik Wade promises that the next time he visits Sea Isle City, it will be in a car. On Dec. 2, 2018, he made an unconventional arrival in the shore town by washing up on the 61st Street beach in his 36-foot sailboat. His anchor line snapped Read more…
The Atlantic City Blackjacks (4-6) are still alive and fighting for a playoff spot heading into Week 11 against the Philadelphia Soul (6-4). The Soul have won the first two meetings of the season against the Blackjacks but this one is the most important yet. Atlantic City must win its Read more…
The Cape Atlantic Coalition for Health will be offering free skin cancer screenings in Atlantic and Cape May counties during the summer. Choose Your Cover screenings will be held 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, July 6 at the Newport Avenue gazebo in Ventnor, and 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Read more…
By DONALD WITTKOWSKI SEA ISLE CITY – A raging fire that broke out on Easter morning destroyed two adjacent bayfront duplexes in Sea Isle City and forced neighbors to scramble from their homes until it was determined it was safe enough for them to return. The duplexes on the 200-block Read more…
By DONALD WITTKOWSKI John DiGenni, who had known Matt Vecere since the two were boys growing up in Sea Isle City, recalled that his close friend was a regular guy who loved surfing and simply goofing around. But DiGenni noted there was also a humanitarian side to Vecere – one Read more…
By DONALD WITTKOWSKI Sea Isle City is taking steps to prevent speeding motorists from churning up wakes of water that slam into homes, damaging garage doors and wiping out flower beds in the process. City Council unanimously introduced an ordinance Tuesday, March 12 that effectively declares the entire town a Read more…