48 Blocks Festival returns to celebrate Atlantic City’s creative spirit
Atlantic City’s 48 Blocks Festival returns Sept. 19 with live music, artist demonstrations, public art, food and community programming spread across Fisherman’s Park and Uptown Park. Presented by the Atlantic City Arts Foundation, the free, all-day festival will bring...
Ocean City invests millions as flooding becomes a growing challenge
In Ocean City, flooding has long been part of life on a low-lying barrier island. A coastal storm, a period of heavy rain or even an unusually high tide can leave water pooling on streets and creeping into some of the city’s most vulnerable neighborhoods. But as sea...
Looking back at the singing tower of Lake Lenape
On the quiet shoreline of Lake Lenape in Mays Landing stands a lighthouse that has never guided a ship home. There is no rocky coastline here, no ocean fog and no freighters searching for a safe harbor. Instead, the 65-foot tower was built for a much more whimsical...
Where have South Jersey’s weakfish gone?
For generations of South Jersey anglers, weakfish were once as much a part of a day on the Bay as salt air, bait buckets and early-morning boat rides. In Fortescue, the small Cumberland County fishing village that once proudly billed itself as the “Weakfish Capital of...
