OCBP comes from behind to win 2026 Cape May County Lifeguard Championship
Ocean City lifeguards win final two events to top Wildwood Crest, Avalon and seven other patrols WILDWOOD CREST — Every point counted as the Ocean City Beach Patrol came from behind to win the 2026 Cape May County Lifeguard Championship on July 10, besting host Wildwood Crest by one point. The OCBP scored in all […]
Atlantic City wins season-opening women’s lifeguard race
Upper Township women finish second, Sea Ice City beach Patrol third LONGPORT — The Atlantic City Beach Patrol used a combination of veteran leadership and youthful exuberance to win the 28th Longport Women’s Lifeguard Invitational on July 7. The ACBP won the swim and surf dash and took second in the doubles row en route […]
Key things to know about the Ocean City Yacht Club
– Founded in 1901 as a sailing and social club with “… the purpose of encouraging and promoting amateur yachting on Great Egg Harbor Bay and its tributaries.” Motorboats were included after 1912. – Oldest continuously-operating yacht club in Cape May County (1901). There were three different locations in Ocean City early on, but the […]
‘Anchored in Tradition’
Marking 125th year, Ocean City Yacht Club honors past, celebrates present, sailing into the future OCEAN CITY — The Ocean City Yacht Club’s history is measured not only as the locus for sailing on the island, but in the generations of families who have brought the club to its 125th anniversary this year and who […]
Somers Point lets film industry know it’s ready and available
SOMERS POINT — The “Eddie and the Cruisers” fame has faded since the 1980s, but a new initiative may put the city back on the silver screen. Somers Point is working with the Atlantic County Economic Alliance (ACEA) and New Jersey Motion Picture & Television Commission (NJMPTC) on the Film Ready Certification Initiative. “We’ve been […]
American Legion honoring military families with free Ocean City vacation
By DOUG OTTO/American Legion Post 524 Ocean City’s Morvay-Miley-Cruice American Legion Post 524 will welcome three military families to America’s Greatest Family Resort on July 12 for a week of fun and festivities courtesy of the post’s Rest & Relaxation Program, now in its 14th year. The families will be given the use of a […]
Cape May Beach Patrol hosts Women’s Lifeguard Conference
A community of support: ‘We push each other to be the best versions of ourselves’ CAPE MAY — For Lt. Sara Jackson of the Cape May Beach Patrol, one of the most moving moments of this year’s South Jersey Women’s Lifeguard Conference was hearing from CMBP alumni Patrice Back and Kelsey Medvecky and Cape May […]
Preservation success story: 4-story home on Park Place for 116 years
By BARBARA SCHMIDT and MARYANN PIONEGRO-SMITH/For the Sentinel OCEAN CITY – It all started with a staircase. In 2018 Bill and Jeanine Ashmead planned to buy and convert a duplex into a single-family vacation home to enjoy with their family. While viewing online real estate sites, they saw a picture of the staircase at 843 Park Place, […]
Sea&Do: Upcoming events
Jersey Tenors support Pops OCEAN CITY – The Jersey Tenors are back at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 22, at the Ocean City Music Pier. Tickets are $52 with proceeds benefitting the Friends of the Ocean City Pops. Raymond N. Beebe, Esquire, is sponsoring the concert. The Jersey Tenors are an opera-rock mash-up sensation, creating the […]