Vagabike 2025 riders gather outside Vagabond Kitchen & Tap House in Chelsea Heights. Photo: Vagabond Charities, Inc. Community • Giving Back • VBA Member Spotlight Vagabike Rolls Out Tomorrow: A Great Ride with an Even Greater Purpose Born after Hurricane Sandy, now in its 14th year, and more than $70,000 in scholarships strong, Vagabond’s signature…
Inside Leslie’s Dance Studio, host of The Comeback Collective. Photo: Leslie’s Dance Studio. Community • Fitness • Giving Back The Comeback Collective Local instructors and vendors team up at Leslie’s Dance Studio on Sunday, October 18, to raise support for Living Beyond Breast Cancer. Some of the best things in Ventnor happen when local businesses…
Ventnor Business Association So Much Happening: The VBA’s Fall & Winter Lineup From a pink October to a New Year’s Day plunge, Ventnor’s business community has a packed calendar — and every event is a chance to support the local shops, restaurants and makers that keep this town going. ◆ ◆ ◆ THE SEASON AT…
Business Spotlight · Ventnor City Shortstop Spirits & Deli: A New Chapter for a Familiar Ventnor Corner The Corner Ventnor Already Knows At the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Vassar Square, one block from the Ventnor beach and boardwalk, there’s a storefront generations of residents know by muscle memory more than address. For decades it…
October 2026 • Inaugural Campaign VBA Goes Pink A Citywide Effort for Living Beyond Breast Cancer This October, Ventnor’s business community is turning pink — together. VBA Goes Pink is a new citywide campaign from the Ventnor Business Association, uniting shops, restaurants, and service businesses behind Living Beyond Breast Cancer, a national nonprofit headquartered just…
Ventnor City · Labor Day 2026 Family, fun, and the finale of summer. Ventnor outdid itself with a three-day Ski Beach bash for the ages — and for a first-year festival, that’s saying something. The City of Ventnor has been nailing the party scene since the 19th century, and never more so than in recent…
Ventnor Business Association Community Update Ventnor Looks Ahead to a Fall Filled With Community As another memorable summer begins to wind down, Ventnor is already looking ahead. The coming months will bring opportunities to honor a deserving military family, celebrate Halloween, support local businesses, meet fellow members of the business community and begin planning one…
VBA Member Spotlight The Shore-House Punch List That Should Not Wait Until Fall A practical late-summer checklist for Shore homeowners—and a closer look at the local professional helping Downbeach tackle its to-do lists. Exterior repair and painting by The Island Handyman. VBA Member Feature • Ventnor City, New Jersey Ventnor City is home to skilled…
Golden hour has set the scene for Ventnor’s beach concert crowds all summer. Photo: Unsplash. The Final Ventnor Summer Concerts The city runs its free live music calendar under two banners: Summer Beach Jam oceanside at Newport Avenue, and Sunset at Ski Beach bayside in Ventnor Heights. Both series open with food trucks and local…
Business Spotlight Jagielky’s Homemade Candy: More Than 50 Years of Small-Batch Tradition Half a century of handmade chocolate, family recipes, and one unmistakably sweet corner of Ventnor Avenue where candy is still made the way George Jagielky first imagined it. Jagielky’s Homemade Candy at 5115 Ventnor Avenue — a working candy shop and the heart…
