LGBTQ+ community: We belong at Ocean City High School
More than 100 gather to support students, push back on anti-gay rhetoric OCEAN CITY — Members of the LGBTQ+ community continued Sunday to push back against opinions voiced during a rally for three Ocean City Board of Education candidates. More than 100 people of all ages gathered at Fifth Street on the boardwalk to show support […]
Ocean City Council backs Parents Bill of Rights
OCEAN CITY — Ocean City Council unanimously approved a Parents Bill of Rights at Thursday evening’s meeting, taking aim at what they called state standards handed down with little public input during the COVID-19 pandemic. Councilman Tom Rotondi introduced the idea at the last council meeting and it was brought forward in a resolution during […]
Superintendent: school district already in sync with bill, to put all curricula online
OCEAN CITY — The new superintendent of the Ocean City School District appeared before City Council on Thursday evening to open lines of communication, talk of his plans for putting all curricula in the district online to be fully transparent and to address the recent vote on the new state Department of Education Health and […]
Upper Township Committee backs Palermo senior housing plan
PETERSBURG — Township Committee took what solicitor Dan Reeves called “the first substantive step” toward creation of a senior housing complex off Stagecoach Road on Monday. The governing body voted unanimously Sept. 12 to approve ordinance 22-2022, which authorizes purchase of block 566, lot 1, commonly known as 1369 Old Stagecoach Road in the Palermo […]
Wards Pastry turning off its ovens for good on Sunday
OCEAN CITY – Wards Pastry, a mainstay of Asbury Avenue for nearly a century, a place where locals and visitors alike bought all kinds of delicious baked goods, is closing. In a post on its Facebook page Saturday, Sept. 10, the bakery at 730 Asbury Ave. announced, “After being an Ocean City tradition for over […]
Three seats up for election in Somers Point
Three incumbents, three challengers vying for City Council positions SOMERS POINT — The struggle for control of City Council continues this year in the city by the bay, with three incumbents seeking re-election and three challengers attempting to unseat them in the election Nov. 8. Turnover on the governing body has become commonplace over the […]
Upper Twp. holds Patriot Day Service to honor, remember
SEAVILLE – It was overcast and cool and breezy as Upper Township set aside time Sunday morning for a quiet but poignant ceremony to honor and remember the victims of the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. In the Patriot Day Service at Sgt. William R. Godfrey Memorial Park at Osprey Point, master of ceremonies James […]
‘Queer kids belong here’
Ocean City High School grad starts petition seeking affirmation of acceptance for LGBTQ community; more than 2,250 have signed Editor’s note: The petition is online at change.org/p/lgbtq-students-belong-at-ochs OCEAN CITY — “Queer students, queer teachers and queer parents deserve a statement of their support for us. We want someone, the superintendent or principal of one of […]
Ocean City rally attacks state health standards
More than 100 gather in park to to support school board slate and hear speeches, including from conservative Christian leader OCEAN CITY – More than 100 people gathered across from City Hall at 5 p.m. Thursday for a combination protest, political rally and Christian revival meeting. The hour-long rally at Mark Soifer Park centered around […]
Childhood cancer survivor makes lemonade out of lemons
Told she may never walk unaided, now on H.S. crew team OCEAN CITY — Trish Adkins and her family got involved with the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation 14 years ago when her daughter, Lily, was diagnosed with an ependymoma — a cancerous tumor in her brain. And 14 years later, Lily, Trish and other members […]