Selena Vazquez

1 month ago | pressofatlanticcity.com | Selena Vazquez

ATLANTIC CITY — For Ronald Rease, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam War, Thursday was not just another day, although it was “another day in life.”Rease, 76, was a Purple Heart recipient who survived a hillside ambush that left him with a head injury, and most of his unit dead. He assembled with over 100 others to commemorate Veterans Day by taking part in an annual event.

1 month ago | pressofatlanticcity.com | Selena Vazquez

Atlantic Cape Community College alumnus Felix Contreras-Castro is serving as a clinical research manager at one of the nation’s largest and most respected hospitals, Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, where he is identifying effective treatments for COVID-19 patients. His days have been spent compiling data: collecting blood serum samples, analyzing patients’ electronic medical records, and meeting with the physician-scientists leading the studies to discuss the findings.

1 month ago | pressofatlanticcity.com | Selena Vazquez

EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP — The Tilton Inn has been sold to a developer who will lease the property to Dooney's Pub, Samantha Zerafa Roessler, the broker with Foresite Commercial Realty, said Thursday. The sale of the 6823 Tilton Road property was settled last Friday, said Roessler, whose firm facilitated the transaction. "My understanding is that the building will be going under renovations with an expected opening early 2025 though I do not have an approximate date," said Roessler in a statement.

Sep 25, 2024 | pressofatlanticcity.com | Selena Vazquez

VENTNOR — The city will use a good amount of the $7.1 million in state funds it was allotted in February via the $100 million Boardwalk Preservation Fund to procure supplies ahead of time. And at the last city commissioners meeting Sept. 12, DeBlasio & Associates was awarded $4,000 to prepare the bid process to purchase the decking materials that will be used to replace a section of the city's Boardwalk that has been deteriorating.

Sep 25, 2024 | pressofatlanticcity.com | Selena Vazquez

MARGATE — The city will host its 23rd annual Fall Funfest by the Bay from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday along Amherst Avenue. The event was canceled last year due to a threat of inclement weather. The festival will have more than 110 booths of amusements, food and retail vendors, information from local nonprofits and more.