Atlantic City Police arrested a 20 year-old man riding a bike for drugs and weapons possession early on Tuesday. Ramel Bey was stopped by police officers for lack of proper lights or reflectors on his bicycle and found with a handgun and 31 bags of heroin. Bey was placed in the Atlantic County Jail on…
On Tuesday the sixth annual Bangladesh Festival was celebrated at the Sand Castle Stadium in Atlantic City. The festival featured Bangladeshi music and sales of native clothing other items by dozens of vendors. The event was organized by Sayed Kausar, who moved to New Jersey from Bangladesh in 2000.
A report released by Stockton University on Tuesday shows that workers are leaving Atlantic County as casino jobs continue to dwindle. The migration also caused the unemployment totals for the county to slightly decline for the first half of the year. Stockton’s biannual South Jersey Economic Review shows that Atlantic City casinos provide 20 percent…
Casino operators from other regions are not only drawing customers away from Atlantic City, but employees as well. Caesars Entertainment will hold a job fair on Wednesday for their properties in Baltimore, Philadelphia and Atlantic City. Next week the Tioga Downs Casino job fair will be held for two days at the Claridge Hotel for…
Atlantic City Council announced the line-up for the fifth summer beach concert, to be held on Thursday, September 22nd. The headliners of the free concert will be eighties rhythm and blues groups Bell Biv DeVoe and En Vogue, and billed as the Atlantic City Community Beach Fest. A limit of four free tickets per person…
An employee of a shady senior care company in Atlantic County admitted on Monday that she tried to steal money from an elderly client. Susan Hamlett of Egg Harbor Township worked for A Better Choice and admitted that she planned to steal the money from a client. The owner of the company, her sister, and…
A 7-mile stretch of the Black Horse Pike in Hamilton Township has commercial development projects galore, creating new jobs and retail space. The Press of Atlantic City reports that no fewer than nine projects are under various stages of development, from luxury car dealerships to a Walmart Supercenter. Local officials estimate that over 700,000 square…
The picket lines and labor unrest at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino are affecting businesses in the area. The Press of Atlantic City reports that business at the adjacent Steel Pier is down by 15-20 percent this summer. Most local businesses in the vicinity of the Taj report a downturn in business, due to customers…
A celebratory parade was held on Sunday to mark the merger of two Jewish congregations in Margate and Ventnor. Temple Emeth Shalom of Margate has joined with the former Beth Judah in Ventnor to form the Shirat Hayam congregation. Leaders led members of the new 450-member congregation on a Torah walk from Margate to their…
Two accidents occurred within 90 minutes on Saturday evening, causing traffic delays on the White Horse Pike. The first crash happened at 4:24 p.m. when a woman driver had a medical emergency, went off the road and severed a utility pole, damaging three other vehicles from falling electrical wires. The second accident was at 5:53…