Ocean City’s Council meets Thursday night and is expected to authorize a contract that will result in dredge spoils being moved from the city to a site in Wildwood. Before Council is a $2.7 million contract with Wickberg Marine Contracting that would result in dredge materials being taken off Site 83 in Ocean City and…
Firefighters in Ocean City were called to a house fire on Central Avenue Sunday morning. Firemen arrived at the home around 9:30am and fortunately the occupants were able to escape without injury. No nearby homes were damaged by Sunday’s fire; the cause remains under investigation.
Now it’s two long distance state running championships for Ocean City senior Devon Grisbaum. Grisbaum won the NJSIAA Meet of Champions in the 3200 meter event in Toms River. This follows Grisbaum’s Meet of Champions victory in cross country last year. Grisbaum will continue her running career at Vanderbilt University.
Ocean City officials met Thursday night to discuss Mayor Jay Gillian’s proposed $72 million budget. The budget includes a small half cent increase in the local purpose tax rate. The city intends to use more than $3 million in surplus funding to help keep the tax rate in check in 2015. The budget…
A man was severely burned during a residential fire in Ocean City on Wednesday night. City officials say the man was taken to a Philadelphia hospital after a fire broke out in his apartment complex Wednesday night in the 1500 block of Simpson Avenue. Firemen had to break into the man’s apartment where they found…
Ocean City Council gave the go ahead to a project that would dredge site 83, which is near the 34th St. bridge. The total cost of the work is $5 million and may not cover all the expenses to do the entire project. The city hadn’t been able to get the project going in the…
A small tax increase is coming to Ocean City this year. City leaders introduced a new budget last week that will raise the local tax rate by one half of a penny. Mayor Jay Gillian’s budget calls for more money to be spent on various capital projects in the community. The budget totals $72 million…
A brand new portion of the Ocean City boardwalk has been finished more than a month ahead of schedule. The Press of Atlantic City reports that phase two of a boardwalk reconstruction plan between 5th and 12th streets in the resort is complete. This marks the first time that the entire Ocean City boardwalk is…
On Tuesday evening a SpaceX capsule splashed-down to Earth from the International Space Station, containing an experiment by six Ocean City High School student scientists and their advisers. The Student Spaceflight Experiment Program allowed them to launch an original experiment analyzing the effect of microgravity on the attachment rate of E. coli bacteria to lettuce cells.…
A 51 year old Linwood man has been indicted on charges that he allegedly had sexual relations with a beach tag checker he supervised in Ocean City three summers ago. Charles Cusack has been indicted on second degree sexual assault charges and other offenses for allegedly having sex with the 17 year old girl in…