SOAC Project Manager Wins 2021 Excellence in Local News Award
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Pattie Harris: AC Dance Legend
Invisible Youth: Chapter 2. Loukaia Taylor continues her quest to share the stories of how young adults in AC are coping with the challenges of a year like no other.
Invisible Youth. 2020 was going to be “the” year for Loukaia Taylor. Check in with her and others about where it all went cockeyed.
We talked to local faith leaders about the challenges facing America. This is what they had to say.
Community invited to event highlighting Stories of Atlantic City
Overcoming mental health stigma through holistic healing in Atlantic City
By Katelyn Woolford, Stockton University
May 2019 marks the 70th anniversary of Mental Health Awareness Month, a national event for fighting stigma, providing support, educating the public and advocating for policies that help people with mental illness and their families.
Read MoreThe ‘sea’ glass is half full
‘Best barber in the world’
By Bill Sprouse, Route 40 News
Abdullah Anderson Sr., who is 48, cuts hair five days a week at Omar and Abdullah’s Hair Bazaar at 1208 Atlantic Avenue. He opens his shop at six a.m. two days a week (the other three days he opens at eight), and he works until six or eight p.m. every day.
Read MoreWhere the American dreamers work
By Elinor Comlay, Route 40 News
You’d be hard pressed to say it was a thriving Main Street, but the barbershop, Mexican restaurant, pizza place, tobacco store, mini-mart and even the closed-looking gift store are all open on a short span of Atlantic City’s Ventnor Ave, between Harrisburg and Trenton. In an age of dying malls and online shopping, something is working here in the Lower Chelsea neighborhood.
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