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4 hrs ago | www.capemaycountyherald.com | Pricey222

LoBiondo Secures $11 Million in Beach Replenishment Funds

" U.S. Representative Frank A. LoBiondo has secured $11,250,000 in federal funding for local beach replenishment and construction projects in New Jersey's 2nd District, including $6,500,000 for beach renourishment in Ocean City's north end and $2,000,000 for beach renourishment in Atlantic City.

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18 hrs ago | pressofatlanticcity.com | Pricey222

More Air Service Coming to AC

EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP - The "international" is becoming more prominent at Atlantic City International Airport. Canada-based WestJet announced Wednesday that it will start seasonal service between Atlantic City International and Toronto this fall. From Oct. 22 through May, WestJet flights will depart Toronto for Atlantic City International at 7 p.m., with return flights leaving the airport here at 9:15 p.m. Introductory fares start at $79.

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18 hrs ago | www.bostonherald.com | Pricey222

Family fun ushers in Atlantic City renaissance

The tides are changing in this seaside resort. Thirty one years after Atlantic City was reborn as the East Coast's answer to Las Vegas, visitors no longer have to head for the Jersey shore to gamble.

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18 hrs ago | www.courierpostonline.com | Pricey222

Racetracks, casinos at odds on 'racinos'

New Jersey's horse racing and casino gambling industries still have a long way to go in developing a collaborative strategy to meet the competitive challenges emerging in neighboring states.

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20 hrs ago | The Winnipeg Free Press

Air Canada, WestJet competition heating up

Competition is heating up between Canada's two largest airlines as Air Canada vowed Wednesday to compete aggressively to preserve its market share despite WestJet's plans to expand its service next winter.

You have to read a little deeply into this story, but it eventually mentions a new airline coming to AC. -ed.

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Wed Jul 08, 2009

Asbury Park Press

N.J. gambling reps to discuss competition

New Jersey gambling industry representatives are meeting today to discuss the challenges posed by neighboring states.

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Tue Jul 07, 2009

www.theday.com | Pricey222

Teaming Up To Take On Atlantic City

Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun, long the fiercest of rivals, have joined forces to take dead aim at their main competition: Atlantic City's 11 casinos.

This article quotes an "expert" as saying
Atlantic City casinos view themselves as competing with and losing to Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun. They don't have the same convention space, the entertainment, the golf courses.
Well, perhaps there are individual casinos that do not measure up in certain categories, but the city has one of the largest convention venues on the East Coast, there about 20 golf courses within 30-minutes, and the entertaiment lineup is matched only by Las Vegas. -ed

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Mon Jul 06, 2009

WINS-AM New York

NJ City Worker Suspended in Vote Fraud Case

A city employee in Atlantic City has been suspended from her job after being charged in a voting fraud case.

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Sun Jul 05, 2009

Lower Township Gazette

46-year employee saw Atlantic City's Schiff Brothers evolve into global business

ABSECON Brenda Percy didn't say exactly how old she was other than to identify it as "retirement age." She did say she started working for her employer in April, 1963, when she was 19 years old.

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Sat Jul 04, 2009

The South Mississippi Sun Herald

Atlantic City Express Service (ACES) Extends $29 Fare Promotion Through July

ACES reaffirms its commitment to a summer of savings and value ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The Atlantic City Express Service - the only direct train service between New York City and Atlantic City - announced it will extend its $29 fare promotion through the end of July.

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Fri Jul 03, 2009

pressofatlanticcity.com | Pricey222

AC Casinos Add 800 Jobs in June

The job losses that have plagued the resort's casino industry were less severe in June for the first time in nine months.

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Thu Jul 02, 2009

The Journal News

Toll road to Atlantic City could go cashless

The commission that runs the Atlantic City Expressway is studying making the toll road cash-free. Drivers would still have to pay the tolls - currently $6 per round trip.

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Wed Jul 01, 2009

terryalaninac.webs.com | Pricey222

Review: Carnival of Wonders at Trump Plaza

One part comedy, one part dance and one part magic (roughly) and the result is greater than the sum of its parts---and a good entertainment value that will make you feel good.

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www.courierpostonline.com | Pricey222

No bids yet for Bader Field

It gave the world the term 'airport,' but the future of Bader Field is in a holding pattern right now.

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Tue Jun 30, 2009

Asbury Park Press

2 more charged in Atlantic City vote fraud

Two more campaign workers have been charged with voter fraud over alleged abuse of absentee ballots in the recent Atlantic City mayoral primary.

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Mon Jun 29, 2009

www.shorenewstoday.com | Pricey222

Gaming employee award to honor Ray Kot

ATLANTIC CITY The Atlantic City Convention & Visitors Authority will honor late Trump employee Ray Kot of Egg Harbor Township with a new award category in its 2010 Atlantic City Host Awards.

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www.azstarnet.com | Pricey222

Billy Mays, pitchman for products 'As Seen on TV,' dies at age 50

TAMPA, Fla. a ' Billy Mays, the burly, bearded television pitchman whose boisterous hawking of products such as Orange Glo and OxiClean made him a pop-culture icon, has died.

(Mays joins Ed McMahon as second former Atlantic City pitchman to die recently. -ed.)

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Daily Journal

2 rescued by Coast Guard off Newport

NEWPORT -- Two people stranded on a personal watercraft in waters off southern New Jersey were found uninjured by Coast Guard rescue crews.

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Sat Jun 27, 2009

terryalaninac.webs.com | Pricey222

Review: Cirque Dreams Pandemonia

Some five years ago we experienced the first Cirque Dreams show to come to Atlantic City. Since then, the series has thrived and continues to be a good entertainment value.

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Fri Jun 26, 2009

Federal Bureau of Investigation

New Jersey Man Indicted in Heroin Smuggling and Distribution Conspiracy

An Egg Harbor Township man was arrested today on a federal Indictment for running a heroin smuggling and distribution organization that imported heroin from Columbia and distributed the drugs in New York City and Atlantic County, Acting U.S. Attorney Ralph J. Marra, Jr., announced.

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