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By Josh Bakan, Patch Staff The Ocean City Police Department will grow their facial hair for a cause. Police departments around Cape May County are participating in No-Shave November (and December) to raise funds for battling cancer. Departments around the county are raising money for two individuals: Amber Adoranto and Jennifer Higginbottom. Adoranto, 32, is a…

Fall back! ⏱ Daylight Savings Time ends on Sunday, 11/3. Don’t forget to turn your clocks back an hour this Sunday. 🍁🍂

By Josh Bakan, Patch Staff Ocean City’s Halloween will not be on Halloween. The City postponed trick-or-treating to this Friday because of the bad weather forecast. Trick-or-treating hours are 5-8 p.m. Friday. Here are a few safety tips from the City: Wear reflective clothing. Stay in large groups. Young children should be accompanied by an adult….

By Josh Bakan, Patch Staff Here’s the latest update on the Bay Avenue Project. Work for the week of Oct. 21 to 25 As of Oct. 18, the contractor will have installed pipe between 30th and 31st Street along Bay Avenue with all trenches being backfilled and paved to a point 150 feet north of 30th…

By MADDY VITALE, OCNJDaily Looking over the Ocean City Boardwalk – one thing was perfectly clear – there were still plenty of visitors Sunday taking in the last bit of Columbus Day weekend. But the unwanted kind was nowhere in sight. Seagulls that swooped down early in the summer to snatch pizza, fries and ice…

By Josh Bakan, Patch Staff OCEAN CITY, NJ — Shredded paper and rigid plastics will no longer be accepted with curbside recycling in Ocean City. Shredded paper and bulky mixed rigid plastic (non-bottle items larger than 2.5 gallons) should go in the trash. Cape May County’s new rule took effect Tuesday, Oct. 1. The following should…

By MediaWize, OCNJ Daily The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $32.5 million contract for beach replenishment projects in Ocean City and two other towns in Cape May County. The contract with Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co., of Oak Brook, Illinois, calls for dredging more than 2.4 million cubic yards of sand and…

By Josh Bakan, Patch Staff OCEAN CITY, NJ — Ocean City will hold its semi-annual Paper Shredding and Electronics Recycling Day from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 12 at the Shelter Road Recycling Center located off Tennessee Avenue. The event is free for residents and property owners in Ocean City. Just bring a driver’s license…

By DONALD WITTKOWSKI, OCNJDaily In the past three years, Ocean City has been spending millions of dollars to methodically clear out channels and lagoons clogged with mud and silt. The ambitious program will resume this fall following City Council’s approval Thursday night of two dredging contracts for a series of shallow lagoons along the back…

By MADDY VITALE, OCNJDaily While Ocean City is already acclaimed for its award-winning beaches, it will soon be getting hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of fresh sand to make its shoreline even more inviting to residents and visitors. The project by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers includes pumping in the sand, repairing dunes…