By DONALD WITTKOWSKI, OCNJDAILY Ocean City is moving ahead with two projects that are key parts of its island-wide strategy to protect low-lying neighborhoods from chronic flooding. City Council approved a resolution Thursday night to advertise construction bids for a…
Veronica Flesher, Patch Staff While you’re checking off holiday gifts for family members, don’t forget the kids who aren’t on anyone’s shopping list and pick up some items for the Toys for Tots campaign in Ocean City. Sponsored by the…
By MADDY VITALE Visitors to Ocean City definitely took advantage of a newer amenity in town – the summer jitney service – which for the past two years has provided riders a convenient and inexpensive way to head up to…
By MADDY VITALE A Christmas tree in the lobby of the Ocean City Community Center isn’t decorated with the traditional brightly colored ornaments and garland. Instead, mittens, gloves, hats, and scarves adorn the tree, which is aptly named, “The Tree…
By DONALD WITTKOWSKI A veritable army of bulldozers, excavators, temporary buildings, and workers wearing hard hats has taken over a stretch of Ocean City’s south-end beaches normally deserted in December. If you think that’s strange, there’s also a towering, three-legged…
By MADDY VITALE, OCNJDAILY Ocean City has an ambitious dredging program for the back bays and lagoons to maintain the waterways so that sediment-choked channels remain a thing of the past. Under the city administration’s multiyear, multimillion-dollar dredging program, waterways…
By DONALD WITTKOWSKI, OCNJDAILY Beautiful flapper girls sashayed on the red carpet at the Flanders Hotel, while debonair gentlemen exuded Great Gatsby-esque charisma in their tuxedos and top hats. Did someone say they saw Rudolph Valentino and Greta Garbo? Perhaps…
By MediaWize, OCNJDAILY Seasonal beach tags for summer 2024 will go on sale starting Saturday, Nov. 18. A discounted $30 price will remain in effect through May 31. On June 1, the price increases to $35. Beach tags are required for…
Veronica Flesher, Patch Staff Expect to see equipment on the beach as early as Nov. 15 as the latest beach replenishment project by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gets underway. Weather permitting, the project that will replenish dunes on…
By MediaWize, OCNJDAILY The Ocean City Board of Realtors is holding its fall community service project, a drive to collect coats, sweaters, scarves, hats and other cold weather items. Donations will be collected now through Nov. 20 and will be…