Selena Vazquez

ATLANTIC CITY — For Ronald Rease, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam War, Thursday was not just another day, although it was “another day in life.” Rease, 76, was a Purple Heart recipient who survived a hillside ambush that left him with a head injury, and most of his unit dead. He assembled with over 100 others to commemorate Veterans Day by taking part in an annual event.

Atlantic Cape Community College alumnus Felix Contreras-Castro is serving as a clinical research manager at one of the nation’s largest and most respected hospitals, Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, where he is identifying effective treatments for COVID-19 patients. His days have been spent compiling data: collecting blood serum samples, analyzing patients’ electronic medical records, and meeting with the physician-scientists leading the studies to discuss the findings.

EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP — The Tilton Inn has been sold to a developer who will lease the property to Dooney's Pub, Samantha Zerafa Roessler, the broker with Foresite Commercial Realty, said Thursday. The sale of the 6823 Tilton Road property was settled last Friday, said Roessler, whose firm facilitated the transaction. "My understanding is that the building will be going under renovations with an expected opening early 2025 though I do not have an approximate date," said Roessler in a statement.