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OCNJDaily.com, SeaIsleNews.com, SomersPoint.com and Downbeach.com have partnered with Playland’s Castaway Cove and Jilly’s Stores on the Ocean City Boardwalk to bring you the opportunity to win a Family Fun Package that will have the whole family smiling from ear to ear. The Sand, Sun & Family Fun contest consists of $1,000 in Playland’s Castaway Cove tickets, including amusement rides, go-karts and miniature golf.  It also includes a package from Jilly’s featuring two-hour fun cards to Jilly’s Arcades ($60 value), a $25 gift card to any Jilly’s store and one set of Jilly’s refill cups and one box of Jilly’s salt water taffy and other sweets ($100 value). Details follow for entering the contest.

Fireworks will cap off Ocean City’s Fourth of July festivities at 9 p.m. Sunday, July 4. The city is ready to celebrate the return of summer, and the fireworks display promises to be spectacular. A complete listing of Ocean City's holiday events follows.

The Greater Ocean City Theatre Company's award-winning Spotlight Performers Show Choir has been selected to perform during Wawa's "Welcome America: Broad & Market Festival Experience." On Monday, June 28, OCTC's select group of high school musical theater performers will celebrate their pride for the red, white and blue in the birthplace of America.

Mayor Jay Gillian is paying tribute to two distinguished Ocean City residents who died recently, Nick Impagliazzo and Andy Jernee. Mr. Impagliazzo, born in 1924, was a combat veteran of World War II and former Ocean City police sergeant. Mr. Jernee, born in 1927, was a star of the Ocean City High School football team, a Navy veteran and former president of City Council. More details about their lives follow in the mayor's weekly address to the public.

There are only a few days left to vote for Ocean City in New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium’s 2021 “Favorite Beaches” poll. It takes only a minute to vote, share on social media, and encourage your friends and family to vote for Ocean City. Details follow.

The Ocean City Tabernacle is excited to welcome Shaunti Feldhahn for the 8:30 a.m. traditional and 10:30 a.m. contemporary worship services on Sunday, June 27. Feldhahn is a groundbreaking social researcher, best-selling author and popular speaker – but a wife and mom first. Also appearing Sunday, June 27 at 7 p.m. will be Christian recording artist and worship leader Aaron Shust.

An Ocean City man died in a car crash Tuesday evening, Cape May County Prosecutor Jeffrey H. Sutherland and Police Chief Jay Prettyman said in a news release. According to police, at about 6:10 p.m. Ocean City police officers and EMS responded to the intersection of Ninth Street and Bay Avenue for a report of a serious motor vehicle crash. A 2005 Mercury Sable driven by Kevin Farrell, 48, of Somers Point, was attempting to make a left-hand turn onto Bay Avenue from Ninth Street when he was struck on the passenger side by a westbound 2018 Jeep Wrangler driven by Ruddy Narvaez Jr., 33, of Galloway. The front seat passenger of the Mercury Sable, David Andrews, 66, of Ocean City, was transported to Shore Medical Center in Somers Point, where he was pronounced dead, authorities said in a release Wednesday...

With summer fun getting back to a level of normal for most, July in Ocean City will bring people together for a great cause: Amyloidosis awareness and research on Friday, July 30. The Chip Miller Amyloidosis Foundation (CMAF) is excited to return to Ocean City to host its triple-header of family entertainment, “Surf Fest, Slide for Amyloidosis and Taste of OC,” according to a CMAF news release.

Car lovers can watch more than 300 vintage vehicles parade down the Ocean City Boardwalk at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 26. The procession will cap off the 66th annual Dave Blyler and Herb Godfrey Memorial Antique and Classic Auto Show and Parade. Before the parade, the antique cars – all at least 25 years old – will be on display on the grounds of the Ocean City Tabernacle at 550 Wesley Avenue from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Ocean City used strong pitching and timely defense to outlast Pascack Valley, 3-2, in a marathon 14-inning thriller Sunday to win the first state baseball championship in school history.