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“We are excited to welcome Craig to the Sturdy Savings Bank family, and anticipate Sturdy Savings Bank has announced that Craig DeGenova has joined the Sturdy Savings Bank’s lending team as senior vice president/director of lending. As director of lending, DeGenova will develop and direct the bank’s residential, consumer and commercial loan activities. DeGenova brings 30 years of experience in the field of finance to his position. He served as senior vice president and  commercial team leader at OceanFirst Bank for the last six years, and vice president of commercial lending at Cape Bank for the three years prior. “I am excited and proud to join the Sturdy Savings Bank team,” DeGenova said. “I am looking forward to leveraging my contacts, experience and knowledge to support, promote and strengthen the lending and banking relationships in our community.”great contributions from him,” Sturdy Savings Bank President and CEO Gerald L. Reeves said in the announcement. “Our new Lending Center is in full operation, and we are looking forward to having Craig at the helm.”

Muscle cars and hot rods commanded the attention of car buffs who ogled the classic autos and trucks that paraded down the Ocean City Boardwalk on Saturday.

A Pennsylvania man drown at an Ocean City beach during rough surf conditions, authorities said in a release Thursday. The victim has been identified as Shawn Reilly, 56, of Thornhurst, Pa. At 12:23 p.m. Thursday, the Ocean City Beach Patrol's Rapid Response Team was alerted to two bathers in distress in the surf at an unprotected beach near 12th Street. Three lifeguards entered the water and brought a father and son ashore...

On Friday, Sept. 16 at 1 p.m. the Ocean City Library, OCNJ AARP will welcome state Assemblyman Antwan McClellan as the inaugural speaker. McClellan is an Ocean City resident, former Ocean City Councilman, and presently serves as the assemblyman for the First Legislative District. He will be speaking about the Senior Freeze program, the Anchor program (formerly Homestead Rebate), public transportation expansion, housing affordability, the law enforcement response to the increase in crime in shore communities, and other issues that affect us...

Students and teachers weren’t going to let a little rain -- well, a lot, actually -- take the excitement out of the first day of school Tuesday. All three schools in Ocean City had their own special way to celebrate the start of the new school year.

A power boat carrying two people ran aground on North Street Beach in Ocean City early Tuesday afternoon, Ocean City spokesman Doug Bergen said in a release. A second boat beached off Great Egg Harbor Inlet at the Malibu Beach Wildlife Management Area known as Dog Beach, he said. A small caravan of boats was reportedly traveling from the Avalon and Stone Harbor area to Atlantic City for the In-Water Power Boat Show, which opens on Thursday. At the same time, a “Small Craft Advisory” was in effect, and northeast winds were gusting to 45 mph created heavy seas...

Visitors to Ocean City made the most out of spectacular weather on Labor Day to relax on the beaches, splash in the surf and savor the last bit of the traditional end of summer before school begins and others go back to work.

Four years and counting and the falconers -- along with their raptors -- are chasing seagulls away from the beaches, the Boardwalk and the downtown in Ocean City. Seth Rowe, a falconer for the city-contracted East Coast Falcons, looked down the Boardwalk over the busy Labor Day weekend after setting his Harris’s hawk, Karen, out on her mission to rid the boards of pesky, pizza-snatching birds. When asked how his summer season was shaping up as a falconer in Ocean City, he said, “Doing excellent. Not a gull in sight. That’s how the summer has been.”

Mary Ann and Pete Summa decided to give their four children a real treat Saturday and kick off the Labor Day weekend in Ocean City. “We drove down this morning,” Mary Ann Summa noted of their trip from their home in Morristown, N.J. By the afternoon, they stood on the Boardwalk in front of the Music Pier with their kids, Andrew, 13, Pete, 11, Gillian, 9, and 6-year-old Nolan, enjoying Polish water ice.

Labor Day weekend in Ocean City is jam-packed with plenty of events and activities to keep vacationers entertained. And that is just a part of it.