by Cindy Fertsch | May 21, 2024 | Cape May County, Features, Ocean City, South Jersey, What's Happening
After a long winter and rainy spring, city and Chamber of Commerce officials will finally turn a ceremonial wooden key to “unlock the ocean” for the season at noon Friday, May 24. The free public event provides an early start to Memorial Day Weekend and welcomes a...
by Cindy Fertsch | May 21, 2024 | Cape May County, Features, Ocean City, South Jersey, What's Happening
Ocean City held its annual OCNJ Triathlon/Duathlon on Sunday, May 19. The race saw 115 finishers in the combined events. The friendly event includes a quarter-mile pool swim (timed separately), 2-mile run, 16-mile bike and another 2-mile run. The race also includes...
by Cindy Fertsch | May 17, 2024 | Cape May County, Entertainment, Features, News, Ocean City, South Jersey
ESPN reporter and host Marty Smith will be grand marshal of the 2024 Night in Venice boat parade on July 20 in Ocean City, N.J. Smith, who owns a home in Ocean City, will be joined by family members for the 69th anniversary of the festive summer event. Smith is one of...
by Cindy Fertsch | May 16, 2024 | Atlantic County, Cape May County, Editorial, Letters from the editor, South Jersey
From the Editor With Memorial Day nearly upon us, like many, my workload has sky-rocketed. There’s to-do lists posted everywhere, dozens of sticky notes and piles of papers on every flat surface in our home. There’s a time when this would have pushed me off the...
by Cindy Fertsch | May 16, 2024 | Cape May County, Features, South Jersey, What's Happening
By John Cole The Garden State is not often in the national spotlight for a presidential election, but former President Donald Trump brought his campaign to the Jersey Shore on Saturday. “As you can see, today, we’re expanding the electoral maps because we are going to...
by Cindy Fertsch | May 16, 2024 | Cape May, Cape May County, Entertainment, Features, News, South Jersey
By William Kelly A new, major motion picture about Bob Dylan, “A Complete Unknown,” is currently being filmed in Cape May. No, Dylan was never in Cape May, but his appearances at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival marked a significant point in his career as it was when he...
