Ocean City girls basketball team: Don’t renew coaches’ contracts
Players tell school board coaches have been ‘demeaning,’ ‘disrespectful’ OCEAN CITY — About a dozen members of the Ocean City High School girls basketball team stood before the Board of Education on Wednesday night and asked that their coaches’ contracts not be renewed for next season. They offered complaints including being “verbally degraded, bullied, sworn […]
Upper Township to pare $450K from budget; new hires on block
PETERSBURG — Upper Township Committee met for a budget workshop Feb. 14 and reported the preliminary spending plan is about $450,000 too high. Chief Financial Officer Barbara Ludy said last year’s budget was $15,480,943, with $4,108,933 to be raised by taxes. The municipal tax rate is 21.9 cents per $100. She did not want to […]
Sentinel wins statewide awards for coverage of wind turbine project, sports
OCEAN CITY – The Ocean City Sentinel won seven statewide awards in the New Jersey Press Association Better Newspaper Contest, including first place awards for its coverage of the proposed wind turbine farm off the coast, its local sports coverage and in photography. The Sentinel also earned awards for special subject writing, coverage of crime and […]
Somers Point is paying tribute to another naval hero
Medal of Honor winner lived later in life in city SOMERS POINT — Tom Innocente would like to kick himself. More accurately, he would like to kick his twentysomething self. The U.S. Navy and Navy Reserve veteran spent time with a decorated American hero in the 1970s and failed to take advantage of the opportunity. […]
Horseshoe crabs get an assist after rare winter beaching
Beached horseshoe crabs have been getting an assist from Stockton University alumni and staff, who are sharing how others can help by flipping the crabs over so they can return to the water. Elizabeth Parsons first discovered more horseshoe crabs than she could easily count stranded on the beach about a mile from Stockton University […]
Antoinette J. Ruggieri, 91
Antoinette J. Ruggieri, age 91, of Egg Harbor Township, N.J., passed away peacefully on February 1, 2022 in Lakewood Ranch, FL. Toni was born on July 24, 1930 in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania. She moved to Philadelphia when she was 13 and attended South Philadelphia High School for Girls, Class of 1947. After graduation Toni married […]
William ‘Bill’ A. Salsbery, 76
William “Bill” A. Salsbery, 76, of Somers Point, NJ passed away on February 17, 2022 surrounded by his loving family. Bill was the devoted husband of Barbara (Bunnell) Salsbery, his loving wife of 55 years and will be missed so dearly by his two sons, William P. (Carrie) Salsbery of Cherry Hill and Jason R. […]
John Charles Fallon Sr., 85
John Charles Fallon Sr., of Ocean City, NJ, died Sunday, February 13, 2022 at home surrounded by his loving family. He was 85. Born May 7, 1936, in Croydon, PA, he was the son of the late Leonard Sr., and Catherine Rafferty Fallon, and the beloved husband of Rosemarie Elizabeth Gaudioso Fallon, to whom he […]
Roy J. Wagner, 94
Former Ocean City Council member Roy John Wagner of Ocean City died on February 15, 2022, at Autumn Lake Healthcare at Oceanview. He was 94 years old. Wagner was born in Camden and attended the former Woodrow Wilson High School. After high school, he attended the then Drexel Institute of Technology in Phila., where he […]
State misses deadline on marijuana sales
TRENTON — Sale of recreational marijuana from medical dispensaries was supposed to start Feb. 22 but the deadline will not be met, according to the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission (CRC), which has yet to issue a license. The CRC wants to ensure medical marijuana users do not face shortages of cannabis due to it […]