Power in purple, Roxie McVeigh of Linwood is a five-year survivor, Barbara McDonnell of Atlantic City is a 10-year survivor as is Barbara Hood of Linwood and Mary Roche of Galloway is still waging her battle. The women said they were happy to be a part of the Relay for Life.

LINWOOD - The weather didn’t want to cooperate but it didn’t seem to matter; people came from all over to be a part of the Relay for Life held at Mainland Regional High School Friday, June 14. The event celebrated life and the tenacity of the everyday heroes all around us who have battled and continue to fight cancer.
Schools and other groups have been raising money for the relay in advance of the event for months and organizer Christine Sands Bennett announced that before the first person walked on the track Friday the volunteer effort had already raised more than $80,000 for cancer research. The crowd roared its approval on the success of the event.

The Climate Prediction Center is forecasting warmer than normal temperatures for much of the northern United States through the first week of July.

If you hate unseasonably cool and wet weather, you just might be in luck.

After watching an unusually wet and cool start for Southern New Jersey durign the first half of June, weather forecasters now say summer will come back with a vengeance during the final two weeks of the month. How far into the 90s will daily high temperatures go?

medical marijuana

Medical marijuana 'school' teaches business entrepreneurship and cultivation tips

To respond to the growth in states with laws allowing medical marijuana, schools educating entrepreneurs on the ways to cultivate and run a budding business have been cropping up around the county and the first one just announced its arrival in New Jersey.

  Members of the Jersey Shore Parrot Head Club got a good spot for the show. From left are Kate Newcomer of Brigantine, Steve Petrozza of Glassboro, Lynne Dubler of Stone Harbor, Lisa Westog of Ocean City, Lance and Kathy Landgraf of Ventnor and Beth Zoller of Ocean City.

ATLANTIC CITY - "Build it and I will come," Jimmy Buffett told the 75,000 people who flocked to the beach for a free concert hosted by Resorts Casino Hotel Saturday, June 15.

Andy Grammar opened Salt & Sand Fest at 1 p.m on LandShark Beach at North Carolina Avenue while the crowd stretched to Steel Pier from the boardwalk to the ocean and beyond, where boats were anchored in the surf.

Bluegrass

EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP – A bluegrass music festival is scheduled for Saturday, June 22 in Egg Harbor Township which organizers said honors the love of music of a former Egg Harbor Township High School graduate and raises money for the memorial scholarship named after her.

The Billiejo Turnure Bennett Memorial Scholarship was established in 2012 in honor of Billiejo, a 1986 graduate of the Egg Harbor Township High School where she excelled in the fine performing arts, according to her sister Kellie Chambers.

EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP - While handing out scholarship funds to deserving students is always a treat in itself, one of the presenters during Egg Harbor Township High School Senior Awards Night added a bit more pomp and cirumstance to their presentation. As the Atlantic City Firefighters Sand Pipers Pipes and Drums Band was announced, they marched down the aisles of the school's Performing Arts Center playing a full song before proceeding with their scholarship award. Read  more below: