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Phillip Eisenstein was a wrestling fan as a kid. He grew up and stopped thinking about it, much. But at the end of this month, under the stage name Ike Phillips, he will take the ring at the Celebrity Theatre at The Claridge alongside a poster-full of big-name talents for the first ever Boardwalk Beatdown.
Bert Lopez has a full-time job and is involved with more than a few chambers and charitable organizations. He isn’t sure he wants another side project. But as one of the founders of the long-dormant Hispanic Alliance of Atlantic County, he’s been under some pressure lately.
A medical marijuana dispensary and farm could could take over the buildings and lots used by Calvi Electric in the center of Atlantic City’s Tourism District, according to a plan filed with the tourism district planning authority this week.
The Press of AC has a cool story on the Baltic Avenue Canal, an old-fashioned flood-control system, that’s been sitting fallow for 50 years but was reopened.
The Press of AC’s Claire Lowe has a great story on the lack of candidates for school-board elections. Lowe reports there are 82 races in the Press’s coverage area, and in 17 of them, there aren’t enough candidates to fill the open seats.
Egg Harbor City ok’d a redevelopment plan that would put a medical marijuana grow facility at a boat-building, erm, building that’s currently owned by Dr. Trocki. All this is contingent on state licensing though.
I’m old enough to remember when marijuana liberalization was supposed to benefit African-Americans, as in economically, since non-African-Americans have been locking them up for decades for this thing that’s now going to be a big business.
Samaritan Gets Car Stolen
Not to make light of this but joyriding is an actual thing you can be charged with? Fall is Coming
Read Dave O’Sullivan’s feature on the Oakcrest football squad and their 21 seniors, looking to get back into playoff contention. “Practices are a hoot because we’ve been together for so long, but I love it, it’s all positive vibes.”
Nature Watch
Look, a video of a waterspout! It was off LBI. Toxic Sites, Thirty Years Later
Not too long ago there was a big, nasty cancer cluster in a town not too far from here (Tom’s River).
The Trentonian reports on yet another lawsuit against Stockton claiming sex assault cases that were handled improperly.
In this one, after attempting suicide, the victim started seeing a mental health counselor. She ended up meeting the counselor’s son, who, allegedly, assaulted her.
The AC Press has details on the mandatory conference that applicants seeking to open medical marijuana dispensaries had to attend yesterday, as part of their application for a license from the state.
The principal of Pleasantville High School, Edward Bonek, was arrested yesterday on charges of possession and distribution of child pornography.
He’d just finished his first year as principal. Before that he was interim principal. Before that vice principal.
Brigantine’s city council has drafted an ordinance that would ban single-use carryout bags. The rule goes beyond the 5-cent fee on carryout bags that neighboring shore towns Ventnor and Longport recently introduced.
The Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office put out a statement Tuesday on investigations into sexual assaults of Stockton University students, of which there are four now, citing “concerns raised by the public and the media.”
So much real estate news in the City of Atlantic City! Amy Rosenberg has a long interview with Wasseem Boraie, the developer of the 255 unit multi-family project on what used to be Pauline’s Prairie. It has a pool. I didn’t know it had a pool. This changes everything!
New Jersey Transit is shutting down the AC to Philly train line for four months, effective September 4, to install safety systems I think they were supposed to put in months ago? The line needs to close not for the work to happen, but so they can move personnel from here to the north, to help run additional services while work happens up there. NJTransit knows better than anyone how the North/South divide works in New Jersey.
The long-awaited Donald Trump Museum of Atlantic City had its debut the other day in front of the moldering husk of the TRUMP Plaza Casino at Columbia Place and the Boardwalk.
Statewide eviction filings dropped to their lowest levels in more than a decade, according to the valuable NJ Spotlight, but the picture in South Jersey is less rosy. In Atlantic County, filings are up 5.7% year-over-year. In Salem County, they’re up 7.5%.
The Casino Reinvestment Development Authority is considering building laptop lounges on the upper floors of the Atlantic City Convention Center. The project – which currently exists as a request-for-proposals – would allow businesspersons to plug in and work from the sidelines of conferences. But could it be the opportunity to do something more?
Stockton sold Seaview for $21 million to one of those collections of letters with the word “capital” appended. ABC Capital or EFG Capital or whatever. Look, the point is that the socialists are coming for your plastic guns. The Press of AC’s Vincent Jackson has an ace report on this year’s blueberry season, which is winding to a close. Since blueberries are picked by hand, by immigrants, this bullsh*t with the kids in cages at the border has naturally impacted the bottom line.