Ocean City High School won the Ed Byrnes Memorial All-Sports Award for the 2012-13 Cape-Atlantic League school year.

Ocean City, which shared the award with Middle Township last year, earned the top spot for the 11th time in the award’s 23 years. The Raiders were last the solo winner in 2009.

It happens every year at this time. Hundreds of teenagers in red and white caps and gowns say goodbye to Ocean City High School. There are cheers, high-fives and even some tears.

The speakers talk about the memories these students have created, the progress since they entered as freshmen and the future that lies ahead of them.

These graduates have achieved success in a number of areas. Among them was sports.

OCEAN CITY — Under dark skies, umbrellas in tow, a line of mostly young girls and their parents formed around the block Tuesday for a chance to meet professional surfer Bethany Hamilton at Heritage Surf and Sport in Ocean City. Just as the doors opened, the rain let loose, but that didn’t deter the crowd.

While Atlantic, Ocean, Monmouth, and Hudson counties received preliminary work maps, replacing the advisory base flood elevation maps, Monday, June 17 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, there is still no word on when Cape May County’s new maps will be released.

These new maps reflect a more precise modeling analysis of current flood hazards, including wave analysis, and a more detailed study of other specific conditions that could affect flood risk.

OCEAN CITY – Ocean City’s Comcast customers will have to travel off the island for face to face service from the cable, Internet and phone company.

Earlier this year, Comcast of South Jersey, LLC, filed a petition with the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities to close its customer service office, located at 341 West Ave. A notice went out to customers in Ocean City in April.

OCEAN CITY — Professional female surfer, Bethany Hamilton, who’s story was brought to the silver screen in the movie “Soul Surfer,” will make an appearance at the Ocean City Heritage store, 744 West Ave., 3 p.m. on June 18.

Residents impacted by Sandy encouraged to apply for grants

Eligible homeowners, whose primary residences were damaged or destroyed by Hurricacne Sandy, were encouraged to apply for two grants to help them resettle in their homes, elevate or rebuild their residences when they met with New Jersey Department of Community Affairs Commissioner Richard E. Constable III Monday, June 17 at the ‘reNew Jersey Stronger’ Housing Recovery Center in North Cape May.