Jeff Shirk just can’t quit the Ocean City Halloween Parade
‘I love the parade. I’m recommitted and happy to keep doing it until I die or drop dead on the parade route’ OCEAN CITY – Get Jeff Shirk to a Halloween Parades Anonymous meeting stat. It is an addiction he just can’t quit. You can recognize it right off the bat when he introduces himself. […]
Feelings on wind project offered before forum
OCEAN CITY – Before Saturday’s three-and-a-half hour meeting about the Ocean Wind 1 project at the Ocean City Music Pier, critics and advocates for the proposed wind farm were outside, some protesting, others handing out materials in favor of wind energy farms off the coast. The meeting inside the pier attracted some 200 people who […]
Atlantic County: GOP dominates Election Day in local and state races
TRENTON — Republicans trounced Democrats in Atlantic County for local, county and state legislative seats. Despite losing the statewide vote, Jack Ciattarelli easily defeated Gov. Phil Murphy in the county, taking 38,887 to 24,686. The overall margin was uncomfortably close for the incumbent, who garnered 1,285,351 votes to 1,219,906. Marty Small was one of the […]
McClellan: GOP didn’t take election for granted
OCEAN CITY – Republican incumbents state Sen. Michael Testa and Assemblymen Antwan McClellan and Erik Simonsen had an easy victory in the Nov. 2 general election. Testa received 24,401 votes, or 67 percent, in Cape May County compared with Democrat challenger Yolanda Garcia Balicki’s 11,88 votes, or 32.75 percent. Simonsen received 24,073 votes, or 33.69 […]
VA Clinic in Northfield gets OK
NORTHFIELD — Developer John Berenato got the approval he was seeking Nov. 4 to move forward with a new, larger and more high-tech Atlantic County Veterans Affairs Clinic. Berenato, of Healthcare Realty Solutions, presented a plan to build a two-story, 30,080-square-foot building at 2101 New Road, the current site of Tilt-In Windows. The property is […]
Ocean City High School senior mentors Special Olympics golfer
Freund’s foursome also includes Miss America and positivity SEAVILLE — Isabella Freund is an outstanding teenager, and not just because of the title conferred during a pageant in the Miss America Organization or because of her skills on the golf course. It’s how she uses her lifelong passions that makes her exceptional. On Oct. 7, […]
Republicans run away with elections in Atlantic County
By CRAIG D. SCHENCK/Sentinel staff TRENTON — Republicans trounced Democrats in Atlantic County for local, county and state legislative seats, with the GOP potentially even winning the Governor’s Office in a race that’s too close to call. Jack Ciattarelli easily defeated Gov. Phil Murphy in the county, taking 35,549 votes to 21,155. The overall margin […]
Cannabis business on Tilton?
New ordinance is in the works in Northfield Editor’s note: Multiple communities, including Ocean City, Upper Township, Sea Isle City, Linwood and Somers Point have banned marijuana businesses. Northfield is considering allowing cannabis businesses. NORTHFIELD — A draft ordinance of a new proposal to allow cannabis businesses to operate along a section of Tilton Road […]
Residents urge Somers Point to join the combined court
Council lets the issue die SOMERS POINT — Despite multiple members of the public urging participation in the countywide municipal court system, City Council opted to do nothing — actually nothing. Resolution 185-2021 to approve an agreement with Atlantic County to join its new system was on the agenda Oct. 28. After City Clerk Lucy Samuelsen […]
Ocean City Halloween Parade 2021
Ocean City has one of the oldest Halloween Parades in New Jersey. After a year off because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was back in force Thursday, Oct. 28, marching down Asbury Avenue with bands, floats, dance troops and scout troops, decorated vehicles and people in costume. The parade is run by the Ocean City […]