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July 11, 2019 Dear Friends, By now, I’m sure you are all aware that there have been major delays to our trash and recycling pickup schedule. I want you to know that the city team is aware of the problem and is working as quickly as possible to resolve it. With so many people in…

How many times could you say Ocean City has done it again? Apparently as many times as “America’s Greatest Family Resort” wins New Jersey’s “Favorite Beaches” poll. The contest is through the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium. The results of the 2019 survey were announced on the Boardwalk at the Ocean City Music Pier Friday….

The Ocean City Intermediate School has been working on a project to make food donation boxes at the school. Renters at the Jersey Shore can drop off nonperishable foods when they are finished with their vacation. The Food Drive donation boxes for nonperishable foods will be outside the Ocean City Intermediate School at 1801 Bay…

Consider, if you will, the Ocean City Beach Patrol’s lifeguard stand. Never has such a well-known O.C. symbol been so little understood. The white wooden stands with the distinctive blue trim and red lettering are unique to South Jersey’s beach communities, and functionally more useful to the professional men and women who patrol the resort’s…

The summer trash and recycling collection schedule starts on Monday, June 10, 2019 and continues through Sept. 7, 2019. The schedule includes twice-weekly pickup: Longport Bridge to north end of 9th Street: Monday and Thursday (yard waste Thursday) South side of 9th Street to north side of 28th Street: Tuesday and Friday (yard waste Tuesday) South side…

OCEAN CITY, N.J. — The Ocean City Beach Patrol will guard several city beaches beginning Memorial Day Weekend (Friday, May 25). Beaches will include St. Charles Place, Brighton Place, 8th Street, 9th Street, 10th Street, 11th Street, 12th Street, 26th Street, 34th Street, and 58th Street. The OCBP urges bathers to only swim at guarded…

It’s May, and in Ocean City, that means paying for parking meters and stopping on red at certain intersections. All parking meters by City Ordinance are operational, police announced Wednesday. All traffic lights previously on flash mode are operating at the following intersections: 34th Street and Central Avenue 46th Street and West Avenue 18th Street…

There’s always buzz around the best cities for real estate or the ideal communities for first-time home-buyers. These are typically long-established homeowning hotspots whose real estate markets are beginning to slow. So which communities are, in fact, seeing the fastest growth in housing markets nationwide? After the bursting of the housing bubble and the subsequent…

The Boardwalk is the center of their universe when Meghan and Adam Hubley bring their children, Ava, 8, Sadie, 6, and Adelina, 3, on trips to Ocean City from their home in Mullica Hill, N.J. “We like to go on the rides, go in the shops, stop at the pizza place and eat some ice…

Only a year after its devastating 1927 Boardwalk fire, Ocean City began construction on a grand concert hall that was to become the epicenter of entertainment and cultural arts in the resort town. The 1928 cornerstone plaque on the outside of the building indicates that it was originally christened the Municipal Pavilion, a rather bland…