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The five locations for the Atilis gyms are enjoying strong business again after reopening Sept. 1 following the lifting of statewide pandemic restrictions. Atilis now has a new location in Galloway Township. Other improvements are planned to make things even better for the members.

Honoring heroes with boats highlighting the frontline workers in a year of a pandemic to a yacht decked out in a Christmas in July theme to one featuring French fries and a guy in a chicken costume. The theme was "Honoring Our Heroes" in Saturday night’s 2021 Night in Venice Boat Parade in Ocean City. Participants showcased many different ways of getting their points across in the themed boats from serious to amusing. Spectators watched from Bayside Center, the walkway on the Ninth Street bridge and from private parties along the bayfront.

After riding down the Ocean City Boardwalk Monday night, contestants gathered at the Ocean City Tabernacle, where Katie Bowman was crowned the 2021 Miss Night in Venice by 2019 winner Brooke Powell. First runner-up was Ella Osbeck and second runner-up was Marissa Green. The other contestants were Gianna DiFelice, Tricia Nicoletti and Kirsten Zoellner.

Ocean City High School students don’t mind getting their hands dirty – especially since they are doing work to help clean the bay waters. Each Thursday, student volunteers, about six or seven, help their high school science teacher Keith Zammit with a project that began in the fall of 2020 at the Bayside Center, 520 Bay Avenue. Specifically, students help clean an “upweller,” which is a shellfish incubator, and get a real hands-on approach to marine life and protecting the coastline from storms.

Success took Kate Flannery far from her hometown of Philadelphia, her family vacation retreat of Ocean City, and life on the East Coast. Flannery, a star best known for the role of Meredith on NBC’s The Office, continues her vast and versatile career of acting, comedy, dancing and singing. “I definitely feel like Ocean City is home. Once I come over the bridge, it feels good,” Flannery said in an interview with OCNJDaily.com on Tuesday. “There is a reason why my family has been coming here since 1923.” Flannery will be back in town for this weekend’s Night in Venice celebrations.

A skilled, young pilot safely landed a banner plane on the Route 52 Causeway bridge on Monday, but it took a team to tow it away. The single-engine plane, a Piper J3C-65 built in 1946, was removed from the outbound side of the bridge by 4:30 p.m. Traffic was reduced to a single lane following the emergency landing at around 12:38 p.m. Representatives of the banner advertising company Paramount Air Service, the owner of the plane, along with the pilot, Landon Lucas, 18, worked to lift up the Piper to secure it to a pickup truck.

The rank of Eagle Scout is the highest and most difficult task to be achieved in scouting. And to get to that rank, there are trials, sacrifices and difficulties. In most cases, Boy Scouts never make Eagle Scout. On Sunday, brothers, Daniel Millar, 20, and Liam Millar, 19, both of Ocean City, were celebrated for earning Eagle Scout at their Eagle Scout Court of Honor ceremony at the Community Center before a crowded room of family, fellow scouts, friends and dignitaries...

Elvis Presley’s hits roar to life on the Ocean City Music Pier stage in the new Broadway musical comedy All Shook Up, starring Ocean City Theatre Company’s High School Jr Company. This mad-cap musical comedy based on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, playing July 30 and July 31 at 7:30 p.m., overflows with rock ‘n roll, gospel, romance and mistaken identities...

There was one way to beat the heat Saturday, especially for residents and visitors from mainland communities. They headed to Ocean City's beaches to lounge, stroll along the water’s edge, or better still, jump in the ocean -- where the water was around 75 degrees -- compared to the air temps hovering around the mid-80s at the shore and the 90s inland.

American Legion Post 524 is looking for a few good military men and women to receive special care packages from veterans through the “Coffee Express Program." Post members collect, pack and ship about 15 care packages each month to U.S. servicemen and women serving throughout the world. The program is in its 11th year. The shipments contain, among other things, donations by local merchants and businesses.