The Ventnor Beach Patrol won the Bill Howarth Women’s Lifeguard Invitational, formerly the Cape Atlantic Women’s Lifeguard Invitational. The event was held at the Suffolk Avenue Beach in Ventnor on Wednesday. Margate City took second place and Ocean City finished third. Wildwood Crest won the surf dash event, with Christina Caroulis, Bridget Tarnowski, Kendal Love…
Assemblyman Vince Mazzeo will be introducing a bill to give school nurses responsibility for administering the opioid antidote Narcan in case of an overdose. The N.J. Department of Education recommended that Narcan be included in school district emergency response kits, while the new bill would make it mandatory. According to a press release from Mazzeo,…
Hundreds of casino workers looking for new opportunities attended a job fair at the Borgata in Atlantic City on Wednesday. The recruiting session was held by the new MGM National Harbor hotel/casino project coming to Maryland later this year, with about 3,600 jobs to fill. One week ago the Trump Taj Mahal announced they would…
On Tuesday a state appellate court ruled that Atlantic City is not obligated to pay their former police chief nearly $4 million. A jury awarded former Chief John J. Mooney III $3.88 million as compensation for alleged retaliation against him by former Mayor Lorenzo Langford. The ruling by the appellate court cited prejudicial errors in…
MGM Resorts International will be holding a job fair at the Borgata in Atlantic City on Wednesday and table-game dealer auditions on Thursday. MGM recruiters are looking for employees for their new $1.3 billion MGM National Harbor casino in Maryland, near Washington, D.C. The new 125,000 square-foot casino will provide hundreds of jobs for unemployed…
The Department of Environmental Protection’s artificial reef deployment program is back on course due to a restoration of federal funding. The funding has returned, thanks to a compromise the Christie Administration reached between recreational anglers and commercial fishermen over access to the popular reefs. The DEP’s Division of Fish and Wildlife plans to sink as…
Atlantic City Police found a man shot in the 1200 block of Arctic Avenue Tuesday night. The man was found by emergency personnel around 9:30 p.m. at an apartment complex, but is was not clear if the shooting occurred there. The victim was transported to AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, City Division. Police did not release…
A longtime member of the Atlantic County Board of Chosen Freeholders has resigned because he is moving to Cape May County. Will Pauls is moving from Mays Landing to Cape May County and submitted his letter of resignation from the Board on Tuesday. Atlantic County has a freeholder board consisting of nine members, while Cape…
The Unified Science Center at Stockton University is buzzing with activity as students and their professor are conducting stem cell research, funded by the National Institutes of Health. The project was just awarded a federal grant of over $380,000 to study how developing neural stem cells might cause malfunctions in the body that could cause epilepsy…
Boat sales are on the rise in New Jersey, after legislation that was passed last year to lower the sales tax on boats, with a cap of $20,000. The Press of Atlantic City surveyed boat and yacht sales agents throughout South Jersey and found that more people are indeed buying boats locally, instead of making…