Ocean City Wins New Jersey’s Favorite Beach Contest
For the 10th consecutive year, beachgoers chose Ocean City as "New Jersey's Favorite Beach" in a statewide poll.
Representatives of the N.J. Sea Grant Consortium announced the winners of the annual contest in a presentation on the Ocean City Music Pier on Friday morning.
The New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium introduced the survey in 2008 to “inspire pride in and stewardship of New Jersey’s beaches while promoting a little healthy competition between New Jersey’s favorite beach towns.”
The contest is decided by online voters who are prevented from voting more than once. The contest included winners for the four coastal counties, and Ocean City was the top beach in Cape May County, in addition to being overall winner. Sea Isle City was second in Cape May County and second overall.
Ocean City in recent years has been named “Best Beach in America” and “Best Beach” in many other statewide polls. “America’s Greatest Family Resort” also has been recognized for its boardwalk, downtown, ecotourism, family destinations, women-owned businesses and more.
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The Ocean City Board of Realtors® is pleased to announce it is kicking off its 2023 Community Service Projects, with the Food Is Love drive to collect food, and household items. New this year, collections will include donations for the Humane Society of Ocean City. Donations will be collected now through February 28, 2023 and will be used to “Share Some Love” during this Valentine month.
The Food Is Love, Share Some Love winter food drive will collect non-perishable food items, laundry and dish detergent, as well as Shoprite and ACME gift cards, which will be donated to the Ecumenical Food Cupboard in Ocean City, NJ, to provide for local needy families.
Here is a brief list of some of the items that the Food Cupboard has identified in need of:
Peanut Butter, Jelly18-20oz container, Boxes of crackers, e.g., Ritz, Triscuit, Canned Fruit 15oz cans, Dried (Powdered) Milk, Manuchan/Ramen Noodles, Gain Laundry Detergent Small Bottles, Dawn Dishwashing Detergent - Small Bottles, Cereal 18 -20 oz Boxes, Tissues, Shop Rite or ACME gift cards.
New this year, the winter food drive will show some love for not only the two legged residents of Ocean City, but also for the four legged residents as well. Collections of donations for the residents at the Humane Society will be included in this year’s winter food drive: