Somers Point Mayor Glasser doubts plan to shut Exit 30
GSP Exit 29 would become full exit By BILL BARLOW/Special to the Sentinel SOMERS POINT – Overwhelming traffic has long been a fact of life on summer weekends for the neighbors along Laurel Drive, a narrow residential street standing between the west end of MacArthur Boulevard and the northbound entrance to the Garden State Parkway. […]
Resident: Make Central Ave. one way for bicycle safety
By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff OCEAN CITY – A longtime Central Avenue resident asked if the city could make the avenue one way with a lane for cars and a lane for bikes to make it safer. Speaking before Ocean City Council Thursday, July 16, and in a later phone call to the Sentinel, the 85-year-old […]
Congrats, Class of 2020
Mainland Regional grads gather – half and half – one last time for a pair of safe, socially distant commencement ceremonies By CRAIG D. SCHENCK/Sentinel staff LINWOOD — Great plan, great execution. Mainland Regional High School said goodbye to the Class of 2020 on Thursday, July 9, in two well-thought-out ceremonies that were at once […]
Congrats, Class of 2020
OCHS grads made it through trying times By CRAIG D. SCHENCK/Sentinel staff OCEAN CITY — “This is a big deal, and I think they did the best that they could with the circumstances that we have,” said Upper Township resident Michelle Powell, whose daughter Brooke Powell was getting ready for the culmination of four years […]
Manco & Manco workers test for COVID
OCEAN CITY – Manco & Manco Pizza on the Ocean City Boardwalk announced on Facebook Monday that its boardwalk operations were closing until Wednesday, July 15, after three employees tested positive for COVID-19. Two of the employees, the business said, were asymptomatic. “We have been in touch with the Cape May County Board of Health […]
Swimmer missing off Ocean City
OCEAN CITY – The search continued Tuesday morning for a swimmer reported missing about 7:27 p.m. Sunday at an unprotected beach on the Great Egg Harbor Inlet just south of the Ocean City-Longport Bridge. According to Ocean City officials, when first responders arrived, family members indicated that one bather had not returned to shore. Ocean […]
Old-style Ocean City beach house upgraded for modern taste, near boardwalk and beach
OCEAN CITY — It’s on Park Place between Third and Fourth streets and, like in the game Monopoly, it’s close to Boardwalk. Unlike in Monopoly, it’s also just a clam shell’s throw from the beach and has a nautical theme. Real estate agent Sharon Grimes calls the home at 842 Park Place a “seashore charmer.” […]
NJSIAA plan: Delay high school sports season competition until Oct. 1
ROBBINSVILLE – The official start of the fall sports season is being pushed back by approximately one month, with summer workouts for high school student-athletes – which may begin on July 13 – continuing until Aug. 28. Following summer workouts there will be a two-week hiatus from Aug. 29 through Sept. 13, during which only […]
DEP: Temps, seas rising fastest in New Jersey
By JACK FICHTER/Sentinel staff TRENTON — A study conducted by the state Department of Environmental Protection found that New Jersey is warming and its seas are rising more quickly than the rest of the Northeast region and the world. According to a report of its findings, New Jersey has seen the evidence of climate change […]
Atlantic County COVID: 25-year-old dies, teens infected
By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff Atlantic County had a dozen new cases of COVID-19 reported Monday and no new fatalities from the coronavirus, but more county residents were infected and nine residents died – including a 25-year-old – from complications of the virus over the course of the past week. Those infected over the past week […]