OCEAN CITY — Miss New Jersey contestants made their way down the Ocean City Boardwalk Wednesday, June 12 during the annual parade, which precedes the three-day contest at the Ocean City Music Pier.

The theme this year was “Villains Down the Venue.” Leading the parade was reigning Miss New Jersey Lindsey Petrosh.

ABSECON – Let the music begin!

Absecon’s annual free Concert in the Park Series begins its eight-week run of song-filled weekly Sunday-night concerts on June 23.

The cicadas that have emerged around South Jersey help feed many other creatures, including ants, birds, other insects, mammals and even turtles. There is one predator that specifically targets the large bugs, called the cicada killer wasp.

Life doesn’t come with an instruction book; that’s why we have fathers.

A wise man once told me, “The key to a successful life is to be happy with what you are doing.”

ABSECON - Tickets remain available for the Absecon Republican Club’s annual awards dinner when the organization will honor its Citizen of the Year and the Absecon Fire Department.

The dinner is 6 p.m., Wednesday, June 19 at the Gourmet Italian at the corner of Pitney and Jimmie Leeds roads in GallowayTownship.