On Friday the Ocean City Beach Patrol won their 17th overall Cape May County Lifeguard Championships at the Rambler Road beach in Wildwood Crest. Ocean City won it’s fourth straight team title by one point over the Wildwood Beach Patrol, who were leading going into the final event after wins in the doubles and singles…
She may not be on this year’s U.S. Olympic Team, but a 27 year-old Ocean City native won a huge triathlon event in Hungary on Sunday. Renee Tomlin won the Tiszaujvaros ITU World Cup triathlon over an international field for her second ITU World Cup victory. Joe Maloy from Wildwood Crest did not compete Sunday…
On Saturday morning the 1200 block of the Ocean City Boardwalk was closed for a bomb threat around 10 a.m. Ocean City Police received received a bomb threat directed at the Beach Club Hotel at 1280 Boardwalk and ordered an evacuation while they searched the hotel with bomb-sniffing dogs. Nothing threatening was found and the…
Wildwood Crest finished as the runner-up to Ocean City in the New Jersey’s Favorite Beaches contest for the second straight year, contest organizers announced Thursday in a ceremony at the Ocean City Music Pier. The contest is a project of the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium and conducted through online voting. The NJSGC created the contest in…
Ocean City has been voted the best beach in New Jersey according to a poll by the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium, in conjunction with the Stockton University Coastal Research Center. The survey listed Wildwood Crest at #2, Wildwood #3, Sea Isle City #4 and North Wildwood #5. NJ.com is conducting their own poll of New…
Ocean City has bid farewell to Councilman Pete Guinosso. Guinosso attended his final Council meeting as a member of the governing body on Thursday. Guinosso decided not to seek re-election during this spring’s election. Guinosso has served the city’s Fourth Ward as a councilman since 2012.
Ocean City High School’s lights-out pitcher Sean Mooney was named as the Press Baseball Player of the Year. Mooney led his team to a South Jersey Group III title with a 9-1 record and an ERA of 0.63. Wildwood’s Chris Mormile made the All-Star Team as a utility player, and Wildwood’s career leader in hits…
Ocean City honored the victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting by lighting the Ocean City Causeway in lights symbolic of the LGBT community. The lights remained on at night through Sunday night as the city mourns those who were lost in the tragedy.
The Miss New Jersey Pageant competition began Thursday night in Ocean City with a 90’s decade theme and a slideshow of the contestants during that era. There was a three-way tie in the talent competition between Miss Coastal Shore Madison Welsh, Miss Stars and Stripes Krystle Tomlinson and Miss Southern Counties Ayla Gentiletti. The swimsuit competition…
One somber aspect of this year’s Miss New Jersey competition will be the absence of former titleholder Cara McCollum, who was killed in February in a single vehicle crash on Route 55. Pageant organizers will honor her memory with the awarding of the first Cara McCollum Memorial scholarship. The award will be based on essays…