Musical brings celebrity murder trials with singing and dancing OCEAN CITY — Cheating wives, celebrity murderesses and a conman lawyer take the stage this week in the Hughes Performing Arts Center at Ocean City High School. The comedy “Chicago: Teen Edition” is a popular musical featuring extensive choreography, amazing songs and a captivating storyline. According to […]
Author’s High Tea ticket sale April 4 OCEAN CITY – The Friends and Volunteers of the Ocean City Free Public Library present the annual Author’s High Tea at 2 p.m. Thursday, May 1, at the Flanders Hotel, Ocean City. Guest speaker will be local author Laurie Zaleski. Tickets are $40 and sales will go live at 6 […]
Musical brings celebrity murder trials with singing and dancing OCEAN CITY — Cheating wives, celebrity murderesses and a conman lawyer take the stage this week in the Hughes Performing Arts Center at Ocean City High School. The comedy “Chicago: Teen Edition” is a popular musical featuring extensive choreography, amazing songs and a captivating storyline. According to […]
Traffic concerns overcome; project wouldn’t be open until at least 2026 SOMERS POINT — Chicken sandwiches, waffle fries, fresh-baked cookies and creamy milkshakes are on their way to Defeo Plaza, a shopping center on Route 9 in Somers Point that received the city’s stamp of approval March 19. So is an extensive amount of traffic, […]
Commissioners director: 2025 budget may be our best ever SEA ISLE CITY — “Welcome to the capital of Cape May County: Sea Isle City,” Len Desiderio told the Chamber of Commerce on March 20 as he prepared to deliver his annual State of the County address. While the director of the Cape May County Board […]
LINWOOD — The administration presented its $34,361,814 budget for 2025-26 to the Mainland Regional High School Board of Education on March 10. The budget calls for a tax rate increase of 1.9 cents to 78.44 cents per $100 in Somers Point, 2.4 cents to 78.33 cents in Linwood and 2.5 cents to 78.46 cents in […]
LINWOOD — Wake up to the sun rising over the barrier islands, shining its glorious light down on Great Egg Harbor Bay, the meadows and the fortunate folk on the front porch of the home at 19 E. Ocean Heights Ave. “The sunrise is unlike any other,” seller Dawn McGhee said. “One of the home’s […]
OCEAN CITY — Want proof that bigger is better and location is king? It’s right here in black and white at 22 Roosevelt Blvd. Set in the Merion Park section of the island, the home offers front-row seats to the daily circle of life in the wetlands just yonder. The neighborhood lets homeowners experience everything […]
OCEAN CITY — Start the day with coffee on the back porch as the sun rises and end the day with a cold drink on the private deck off the primary bedroom as the sun sets on another great day at the beach. Offering five bedrooms and three bathrooms on multiple levels, plus a cozy […]
MAYS LANDING – The Ocean City High School girls rowing team won four of the five events it entered last weekend at Lake Lenape with visiting crews from Pennsylvania: Villa Maria Academy, Villa Joseph Marie High School and Gwynedd Mercy Academy.Ocean City rounded off the day with a dominant performance in the Varsity Eight with a nearly […]
EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP — Hours after being shaken up watching their senior captain Cole Laursen carried off the field on a stretcher, all of his teammates on the Ocean City High School baseball team wanted to be by his side. “Yesterday was tough; it was quiet,” head coach Andrew Bristol said Thursday after the rematch […]
OCEAN CITY – In their first action of the 2025 baseball season the Ocean City Red Raiders took on the Egg Harbor Township Eagles in a two-game series. Each team won on the road as Ocean City fell to Egg Harbor Township 8-4 on March 26. Senior Travis Large got the opening-day start for the […]
School policy conundrum: students versus their parents Is helping students conceal their gender identity from their parents the best way to support and protect transgender and gender-nonconforming youths? For a parent, there would seem to be a simple answer. No. For school districts, it’s not so simple. They have to deal with group realities and […]
It is important that the Ocean City Planning Board is working up procedures for citizens to video record its meetings. We hope a comprehensive policy, that should be unveiled by its first meeting in March, will be a step forward for the board, those who appear before it and interested citizens. We also hope these […]
Political sensitivities and a new policy on letters to the editor National politics have made people overly sensitive. I know, shocker. Ask anyone who made an offhand comment about politics — left, right or center — and has been rewarded with an angry harangue in return. That isn’t limited to social media, which is a […]
To the Editor: Upper Township, we need a bike path. As both time and attention spans these days are short, I will attempt to keep this call to action short and sweet. As a collegiate basketball player and lifetime athlete, the benefits of physical movement are beyond denial. Yes, walking and running and moving in […]
