The Ocean City Council approved a new municipal budget before the weekend on a split vote. Council approved a new budget that totals nearly $70 million and raises the local tax rate by nearly one and a half cents. Former councilman Roy Wagner spoke out against the spending plan, saying the city needed to work…
Ocean City officials are prepared to vote on the 2014 budget during a meeting on Thursday night. Council will vote on a spending plan worth nearly $70 million that will include a 1.4 cent increase in the municipal tax rate. For the first time in months Council will meet Thursday evening at City Hall, which…
Some wet weather in the forecast for Tuesday will likely delay some bridge work in Ocean City until Wednesday. Cape May County Engineer Dale Foster told the Ocean City Gazette that commuters can plan for delays on the 34th Street bridge on Wednesday as workers clean and repair the deck of the bridge. Foster says…
Five candidates who are vying for the nomination to run for the United States Senate in New Jersey will be in Ocean City Tuesday evening. The city’s republican club will meet at the Ocean City Library at 7pm Tuesday to hear pitches by all five candidates for their candidacy. Murray Sabrin appears to have the…
An effort to bring a skate park back to Ocean City took another step forward. Council voted on Thursday night to ask the Cape May County Open Space Board for funding to bring a skate park back into the community. The proposal would place the skate park on the 500 block of Asbury Avenue. The…
Some additional funding is coming for the Ocean City School District. The Ocean City Gazette reports that the district will experience a 12 percent increase in state aid in the forthcoming year which will reduce a proposed tax increase to just under two percent. Most of the extra funding coming from the state is from…
The owners of Manco and Manco’s pizza in Ocean City were arrested on tax evasion charges. Charles Bangle, 54, and his wife Mary Bangle, 53, will face a 30-count indictment on the related charges. The allegations are that they took $981,000 from the business in smaller amounts to put into their personal account. All of the…
Ocean City officials will discuss a new location for its skate park during a meeting on Thursday evening. City Council will meet at 6pm Thursday at the Ocean City Library to hold a work shop meeting on the potential new location for the skate park. It looks like there is growing support in Ocean City…
Ocean City Council will discuss putting a skatepark on the 500 block of Asbury Ave. The meeting will take place Thursday at 6 p.m. There was a skatepark in the community that was shut down in 2011 due to the condition of the park falling. Many in the community would like to see a skatepark…
It looks like taxes will be going up in Ocean City this year. City Council introduced a budget just before the weekend that totals over $69 million and includes a tax increase of nearly one and a half cents per one hundred dollars of assessed valuation. Council was able to trim about $3 million off…