Ocean City

The Ocean City Lady Red Raiders basketball team will compete for the Group III basketball championship this weekend.  Ocean City knocked off Ewing, 58-57 on Thursday night in a semifinal game and now will play for the state title. Ocean City will play at the Pine Belt Arena in Toms …

Two local high school basketball teams play in state semifinal games this afternoon.  In a game to be broadcast live by WCZT at 4pm today, Wildwood takes on Bound Brook for the right to advance to the New Jersey Group I championship game.  Bound Brook has blasted opponents en route …

The Ocean City girls basketball team captured the South Jersey Group III championship on Tuesday night.  Ocean City knocked off CAL rival Mainland, 38-31 to win the championship at the Dixie Howell Gym.  Alexis Paone lead Ocean City with 12 points.  They will play Ewing, the Central Jersey Champions, Thursday …

Ocean City’s council will consider a bond ordinance for the purchase of an abandoned gasoline station.  Council will consider a bond worth over $600,000 to purchase the former Getty gasoline station located near the Ninth Street Bridge.  The city is hopeful to obtain the gas station and turn it into …

A Virginia man who admitted to robbing banks in Ocean City and Atlantic City has confessed to three additional bank robberies in Maryland.  Bruce Wayne Higgins, Jr. is charged with two counts of federal bank robbery in New Jersey, and will face three more charges in Maryland.  Higgins allegedly robbed …

Ocean City officials will introduce a new set of rules that will government boardwalk musicians and other street performers.  Council may introduce the new ordinance at its meeting on March 9th.  A prior ordinance was eventually tabled and went nowhere.  Mayor Jay Gillian says the city now has an ordinance …

New Jersey Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno was in Ocean City Thursday as the keynote speaker at the 12th annual Women in Business Conference sponsored by the Cape May County Chamber of Commerce.  Guadagno spoke of her own professional career and the sacrifices she had to make in order to be …

Ocean City has doled out $200,000 to settle a lawsuit involving a retired police officer who had sex with a beach tag supervisor under his direction.  NJ.com reports that Charles Cusack had sex with the teenage girl at his home and at his beach office.  The settlement was reached back …

One of the two owners of Manco and Manco pizza in Ocean City has received a 15 month prison term for tax evasion.  57 year old Charles Bangle received there term before a federal judge for the charges.  His wife, Mary Bangle, received three years probation and was fined $3,000. …

A significant tax hike may be coming to Ocean City.  Mayor Jay Gillian presented a new budget Thursday night that includes a 2.9 cent increase in the local tax rate.  Gillian says the tax increase will finance a major, $112 million capital improvement plan that will be spread out over …