Harris, a senior from Atlantic City High School, scored a game-high 20 points, including four field goals from well beyond the arc, and flashed the kind of play-making and ball-handling skills that should serve her well as she continues her basketball career at Palm Beach State, a Division I junior college in South Florida.

"This is really just the beginning for me," said Harris. "It's sad (that her high school career is over), but I'm just glad that I got to be known as one of the best in the area through high school. I just love everything about the game."

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Dorothy A. McLaughlin, 64, of Margate was arrested Feb. 27 by Officer Joseph Kuchmek and charged with driving while intoxicated. She was released on a summons.

Marcus W. Lorenz, 32, of Millville was arrested March 6 by Sgt. Thomas Kresz and charged with driving while intoxicated and on an outstanding warrant. He was released on a summons.

Brahin S. Jones, 26, of Atlantic City was arrested March 11 by Officer Amy Maclean and Officer Hope McIntyre on an NCIC warrant. He was remanded to the Gerard L. Gormley Justice Facility.

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Margate will hold its City Yard Sale 8 a.m.- 3 p.m. the weekend of May 2-3. Residents can have their house address posted on a map, which will be distributed at various locations before the weekend, for a registration fee of $7. Yard sales are permissible throughout the city even if you don’t want to be on the map.

Applications are available on the city’s website, www.margate-nj.com and must be submitted no later than noon Wednesday, April 22.

Sunday, May 3 will be clean-up day. Any discarded items will be picked up by the city’s Public Works Department. Anything left curbside will be picked up during the collection. No paint, carpets, construction debris, recyclables, appliances or electronics are allowed.

Officials ask residents to be courteous during the weekend while driving through town. Do not block driveways and obey all traffic regulations. Slow down, be safe and have fun.

For more information call 609-822-5438.

The fees for 2015 are $150 for seniors over 62, $175 for adults over 18, $50 for youths 10-17 and $50 for spectators with a key.

Weekly membership is $25 for seniors, $30 for adults and $15 for youths. Daily members pay $5 for seniors and youths, $10 for adults.

Members are required to wear the identification badge issued by the pier master at all times and abide by regulations stated in the city ordinance.

The pier is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. An employee will be on duty to assist with memberships, signups and daily passes.

For more information call 609-823-7944.

In her presentation to the board, Business Administrator Terri Nowotny said the local tax levy would remain unchanged at $17,819,977, although the tax rate would increase 1.56 cents to $.7428 per $100 of assessed valuation due to a $61 million drop in ratables.

The district’s total operating budget is $21,408,781, up from $20,771,809 spent in 2014-2015.

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And the light is streaming through;

When the mists are slowly rising,

And the world comes into view,

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ATLANTIC CITY – The 32nd annual Atlantic Cape Community College Restaurant Gala held at Bally’s Atlantic City raised $125,000 for scholarships for students attending the college’s Academy of Culinary Arts.

More than 700 supporters attended the black tie affair, which offered the theme “Under the Sea.”

Students at the academy prepared a sumptuous array of mouth watering hors d’oeuvres served during the cocktail hour and the future chefs took a bow during a ceremony honoring Atlantic City Mayor Don Guardian and Food Network Star finalist Nicole Gaffney of Brigantine.

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The Vikings, also playing their first Cape-Atlantic League game on their artificial turf field, couldn't get anything going against a very good Lower team.

Pete Tomlin scored four goals while Cole Blackley and Matt Leonard added two each for Lower, which is coming off its first ever South Jersey Group I playoff appearance.

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The fiscal year 2016 budget, which is $100,000 lower than the previous year’s budget, includes $8,407,171 in county appropriations contingent upon approval by the Atlantic Cape Community College Board of School Estimate, a group of college and Atlantic and Cape May County officials.

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If it is approved, here is what the CAL might look like in 2016.

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A series of very interesting proposals came out of Tuesday's meeting of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletics Association public/non-public committee in Atlantic City.

The most interesting - some would say most necessary - change would create a parochial-only football league to start in 2016.

If approved, St. Joseph, St. Augustine Prep and Holy Spirit would leave the Cape-Atlantic League for football. Public schools could still play parochial schools in non-league games, but public schools would no longer have to keep getting hammered in league play by non-public schools that can recruit and draw players from throughout the region. Holy Spirit, St. Joe and St. Augustine are a combined 59-10 against CAL public schools the past three seasons.

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OCEAN CITY - Nineteen players from area high schools will put on their basketball uniforms one last time on Saturday March 28 to play in The 14th Annual All Star Saturday at the Dixie Howell Memorial Gymnasium.

Prime Events All Star Saturday will be held at Ocean City High School on Saturday with the best seniors from the Cape-Atlantic League facing off in the final two basketball games of four that celebrate the present and future of the CAL.

The two high school games, starting at 4:30 p.m., will match the best CAL seniors. Because the CAL is aligned into three conferences, the all star teams were drafted based on the all star voting of the league’s coaches.

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The Lower Cape May girls won the South Jersey Group II title. It’s the fifth straight year a Cape Atlantic League team has won either a boys or girls state title and the 44th time in the past 45 years.

On the boys side, St. Augustine won its first CAL title since 2011 and its eighth CAL title overall. The Prep also reached the Non-Public A South Jersey final before running into an unusually hot-shooting Christian Brothers Academy.

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Such a call from Aunt Tess is the local equivalent of a command performance at Buckingham Palace. You dare not refuse, lest you be stricken off the list forever.

“What’s got her upset?” I asked.

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I will never understand the need to purposely misspell words in business names.

While I know and appreciate that language evolves, there are basic some rules to it, and in the cases when these businesses are marketing toward kids, I find it even more intolerable.

Why do we need to call a social group designed for kids a Kids Klub instead of a Kids Club? Don’t they have enough trouble figuring out when to use C or K appropriately anyway?  There are hundreds of others that add insult to injury. Klub 4 Kids, Kiddie Korner, Kidz Club and Kidz Klubhouse are just a few examples.

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The St. Augustine Prep boys and the Mainland Regional girls were the biggest winners of the day, capturing their respective varsity eight races. But several other schools - Atlantic City, Cedar Creek, Absegami - also had their moments in the (not-so-bright or warm) sun.

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Lamberti has owned the building for 25 years and has faced repeated washouts on the underside of the building during coastal storms, his architect Arthur Ponzio, Jr. said.

Ponzio made an informal presentation to the board at its 4 p.m. work session, and received favorable responses from commissioners.

“He has been Band-Aid-ing it for a while. It has reached the point that to be competitive and operate and maintain a beautiful facility, he must demolish the building,” Ponzio said.

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According to city engineer Ed Walberg of Remington, Vernick and Walberg, there were five qualified companies who submitted bids within $238,000, from Wilkinson’s low bid to a high-bid of $2,498,870 from M.B. Markland Contracting Company.

Although there was a miscalculation on one line item in Wilkinson’s tabulation for one of two flood barriers, Wilkinson confirmed that the total base bid amount was correct, Walberg said.

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