Vince Conti

1 week ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Vince Conti

Share OCEAN CITY – The Ocean City Regional Chamber of Commerce has endorsed a proposed resort hotel complex on the city’s boardwalk at the site of the now defunct Wonderland Pier. Eustace Mita, chief executive officer of ICONA, has met with opposition for his planned complex in both Cape May and Ocean City since 2022, but the proposal has been gaining support in the Ocean City business community after the closure in October of Wonderland Pier, at Sixth Street and the boardwalk.

1 week ago | capemaycountyherald.com | Vince Conti

OCEAN CITY – The Ocean City Regional Chamber of Commerce has endorsed a proposed resort hotel complex on the city’s boardwalk at the site of the now defunct Wonderland Pier. Eustace Mita, chief executive officer of ICONA, has met with opposition for his planned complex in both Cape May and Ocean City since 2022, but the proposal has been gaining support in the Ocean City business community after the closure in October of Wonderland Pier, at Sixth Street and the boardwalk.

1 week ago | capemaycountyherald.com | Vince Conti

STONE HARBOR – The Borough Council has adopted a $23 million general fund budget for 2025 that increases the local purpose tax rate by 7.2%. The tax rate under the new budget, approved May 20, will rise by 2.2 cents, from $0.3120 to $0.3345. The council also adopted a separate Water and sewer Utility budget for $5.8 million.

1 week ago | capemaycountyherald.com | Vince Conti

Get “The Wrap,” our take on the news of the week, in your inbox every Tuesday. Sign up at https://capemaycountyherald.com/newsletter-subscription. May 19 to 23Chronic AbsenteeismNew Jersey defines chronic absentees as students who miss 18 days of school in a 180-day school year. That places students who miss 10% of their classes in that category. So how do the school districts in Cape May County do when measured against this state yardstick? If we use 2023 data as an example, not well at all.

1 week ago | capemaycountyherald.com | Vince Conti

In 1961 the Berlin Wall went up. Some 1,400 Cuban refugees launched the ill-fated Bay of Bigs invasion. The Beatles debuted in a venue in Liverpool. The Pulitzer Prize was awarded to “To Kill a Mockingbird.”1961 was also the last time one party won three straight times in the race for the governor’s office in New Jersey. In November 1961, Richard Joseph Hughes won the first of his two terms as governor, following the two terms of Robert Baumie Meyner who served from 1954 to 1962.