Ocean City expects to give church refund
Property taxes were paid after Tabernacle lost exempt status, but now it has it back By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff OCEAN CITY – The city is waiting for an appeal process to be over, but expects when that happens, Ocean City’s Tabernacle Baptist Church will have its tax payments refunded. The church battled with the former […]
Resort got $3.4M cash premium on $50.7M bond
Official explains how it received money, is using it on certain purchases By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff OCEAN CITY – A question about how Ocean City is funding $645,000 in purchases revealed the fact the city got a $3.4 million cash premium when it went out to bond $50.7 million for capital work earlier in the […]
Ocean City mayor: Please keep dogs on a leash
By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff OCEAN CITY – Mayor Jay Gillian is asking dog owners to keep their pets on a leash. At the Nov. 5 City Council meeting, the mayor said he has been getting multiple complaints about dog owners letting their pets run free, in violation of city ordinance. He said he wants to […]
Linwood’s Fitzpatrick ahead for freeholder
By CRAIG D. SCHENCK/Sentinel staff MAYS LANDING — One of two local candidates for the Atlantic County Board of Chosen Freeholders was ahead in the race for two at-large seats as of Saturday, Nov. 7. Incumbent Caren Fitzpatrick, a Democrat who is wrapping up her first term in office, received the second-most votes among the […]
Two Republicans, one Democrat lead in Somers Point
By CRAIG D. SCHENCK/Sentinel staff SOMERS POINT — Two Republicans and one Democrat were leading the race for three seats on Somers Point City Council, which will have three new members on the seven-member board regardless of who wins. Republican Joseph McCarrie Jr., a financial manager with public service experience, was ahead of college history […]
The slow slog of government progress
It took years for resident Donna Moore to convince Ocean City Council and the administration to stop putting dangerous pesticides on public lands, but she finally succeeded last month. There have been countless appearances at public comment sessions to implore council and the administration to stop using – and to have its private contractors stop […]
Beautiful upside-down home on water in city’s quaint Gardens section
SCROLL DOWN TO SEE A FULL GALLERY OF THIS HOME OCEAN CITY — Real estate agent Chris Monihan calls the home at 212 W. Atlantic Blvd. a “fabulous custom single-family home on an oversized Gardens lagoon-front lot with three large, freshly dredged boat slips.” I call it a $4.25 million work of art. The exterior […]
Ocean City, Mainland boys, girls soccer playoffs set
OCEAN CITY – The Ocean City and Mainland Regional girls soccer teams are the No. 2 and No. 3 seeds in the South East B sectional tournament. Both teams earned byes in the first round, but are in the same bracket. Millville (8-1) is the top seed. Mainland (7-1) will face No. 6 Hammonton (5-3) […]
Davis’s hat trick leads Prep over O.C. boys soccer
SCROLL DOWN TO SEE A FULL GALLERY OF THE GAME By CRAIG D. SCHENCK/Sentinel staff RICHLAND — The well-organized St. Augustine Prep boys soccer team proved too much for Ocean City, topping the Red Raiders 3-0 Tuesday, Nov. 3, for their first loss. “I think there were a lot of good individual efforts here and […]
OCHS field hockey shuts down rival Mainland
SCROLL DOWN TO SEE A FULL GALLERY OF THIS GAME After overtime battle on grass, girls race to 11-1 win on artificial turf By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff OCEAN CITY – The Ocean City High School girls field hockey team came out of the gates on fire Saturday morning against their Mainland Regional rivals. Nya Gilchrist […]