Two people and their pet dog were rescued during a boat fire off the coast of Ocean City on Sunday morning. Black smoke from the boat fire could be seen for more than a dozen miles as the boat burned up off the beach shortly before 11am. The two occupants of the boat and their…
The former athletic director at Ocean City High School has been charged with official misconduct for unauthorized access to the email account belonging to Superintendent Kathleen Taylor. Cape May County Prosecutor Robert Taylor announced today that Chris Lenz of Woodbine has been charged with official misconduct and with computer criminal activity. Lenz allegedly accessed the…
A dredging project in Ocean City isn’t supposed to restart again until later this week now. Originally, the dredge “Liberty Island” was supposed to be back by now but the dredge is now expected to be in place by Aug. 6. The machine was dealing with mechanical issues, which forced it from leaving Ocean City…
Ocean City will not have a National Night Out event on Tuesday night. City officials say the plug has been pulled on the community event largely because Police Benevolent Association Local 61 will not spend several thousand dollars on an event lasting only a couple of hours. City Business Administrator James Mallon told the Press…
Three beaches in Ocean City were closed by the Cape May County Health Department on Thursday. The culprit was sewage overflow at a bath house that closed beaches at Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh streets. County Health Officer Kevin Thomas says the beaches were closed as a precautionary measure. About 35 gallons of sewage wound up…
The current beach fill in Ocean City isn’t complete yet and council is already lining up its next beach fill. Council voted on first reading on a bond ordinance that puts money in place for a north end beach fill project in fall of this year. The bond ordinance would appropriate $2.7 million for the…
Ocean City officials will hold a town wide meeting on flooding issues on August 4th at the Ocean City Community Center. City Council announced before the weekend that a recent engineering study that was focused on an area between 26th Street and 34th Street will be discussed at the meeting. The meeting will start at…
A beach fill could continue in Ocean City by the end of the month. A dredge is expected to resume sand pumping on July 31. The work is now not expected to be finished until September. The dredge had to go back for repairs after recently restarting sand pumping operations. The dredge “Liberty Island” is…
A pair of local supermarkets will be changing names in the near future. The Superfresh stores in Ocean City and North Wildwood will be changing over to ACME stores. ACME made the announcement on their website this week. The agreement would have to be approved in a bankruptcy court, as the parent company of Superfresh,…
The on again, off again beach fill project in Ocean City is off, again. A dredge that had begun pumping fresh sand onto the city’s beaches this week had to be shut down for mechanical repairs. Now the dredge will be sent to Virgina for what could be a lengthy repair project. The beach fill…