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Ocean City Mayor Jay Gillian and his administration want visitors and residents to be informed when it comes to a proposed offshore wind farm that would set 98 towering turbines 15 miles offshore from Atlantic City to Stone Harbor. In fact, Boardwalk strollers and beachgoers may have noticed signs at the Fifth Street and Sixth Street beach entrances installed Monday. They include a depiction of what the project could look like from shore, namely the wind turbines.

Some babies arrived at the Bayside Center in Ocean City on Monday – 50,000 of them, in fact. Baby oysters were delivered to the shellfish nursery or "upweller" at the facility. At the end of the season, the oysters will be placed in Great Egg Harbor Bay to help clean the water, explained ACT Engineers Educational Coordinator Tricia Rosina.

When Ocean City resident and businessman Chris Monihan learned that his favorite local pizza place, Express Pizza and Subs, was closing its doors, he made a call. “It was late spring, April. We had heard that there was a deal with someone to buy it, but the deal fell through,” Monihan said in an interview. “It’s a north end staple. Our family and our friends all eat here. There’s nothing really else in the Gardens or in the north end of Ocean City.” That’s when he enlisted his good friend and fellow businessman, Ocean City resident and entrepreneur TJ Heist. “I asked him if he wanted to take it on,” Monihan explained. Heist said absolutely.

The annual Chip Miller Surf Fest brought more than 150 surfers out to the 7th Street surfing beach in Ocean City on Friday to help raise funds and awareness for Amyloidosis research. Miller, who raised his family in Ocean City, was diagnosed in 2004 with Amyloidosis, a rare disease which occurs when an abnormal protein, called amyloid, builds up in one or more organs causing a malfunction. A few months later, he passed away. For 19 years, his son, Lance Miller, of Ocean City, has held the Surf Fest in honor of his father.

Talk about exceptional library service. The Ocean City Free Public Library is in full swing with its popular program, “Library Beach Book Bashes" on 14th Street beach, bringing books to avid readers vacationing and living in the resort. On Thursday, library staff members were all set up at their blue library tent, to the side of the long beach mat walkway. It was the third book bash of the summer. The remaining ones are scheduled for Aug. 10 and Aug. 24. They all run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

This was one time when transforming a city into a “Gritty City” could be considered a good thing – at least if you’re a Philadelphia Flyers fan. Ocean City became just that, when the Flyers 2023 Community Caravan came to town Wednesday, bringing along its popular orange mascot, "Gritty," arena host Everett Jackson, Flyers alumni Steve Coates, Scott Hartnell, Dave Schultz, Bob Kelly and Todd Fedoruk, current players and the Flyers Ice Team.

Tyler Myers knows that to be a good sailing instructor – a really good one – you have to keep honing your skills. You have to keep reaching and keep winning. He does just that. In fact, this month, Myers, 33, of Marmora, won a 43-mile race called the Statue of Liberty Marathon in his Hobie catamaran. It began at the Sandy Hook Bay Catamaran Club in Atlantic Highlands, N.J., and looped around the New York Harbor and returned to the Atlantic Highlands in Monmouth County.

Max Maher had no intention of going to an offshore wind farm protest in Ocean City on Saturday. But when the Johnstown, Pa., teenager read a pamphlet handed to her on the Boardwalk warning about what could happen if a wind farm is built off the South Jersey coast, she felt she had to go. “I came for the weekend to see my friends. I’m not a huge beachgoer, but when I read that the wind farm could destroy the marine life and the environment, I was angry,” the 16-year-old said. “I wanted to do my part.” Opponents of a proposed wind energy farm off the South Jersey coast joined hands and formed a human chain symbolizing their fight against a project they believe will cause harm to the shore’s economy and the environment.

Jake Matakonis was quite confident as he waited for Fire Capt. Chris Vliet to secure his safety belt before rappelling 15 feet from the ceiling of the firehouse. “I give it a 10 out of 10,” Jake, 12, of Buckingham Township, Pa., said of his rappelling expertise. “This is my third time.” Jake, like many other kids at the Ocean City Junior Firefighter Camp was a repeat camper.

If you need some light reading on the beach, the Ocean City Free Public Library will bring it to you. On Thursday, July 13, will be the second library event on the beach called “Library Beach Book Bashes.”