Ocean City to give kids an outlet, parents a break
Resort offering inexpensive fall youth programs for 3 hours afternoons By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff OCEAN CITY – With the Ocean City School District going to a hybrid schedule that has students in schools only two days a week, the city Community Services Department is going to offer after-school fall youth camps and clinics at a […]
Ocean City Arts Center reopening after Labor Day
Arts and music classes to resume in September; shows are scheduled By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff OCEAN CITY – After nearly six months of being closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ocean City Arts Center is coming back “full force” after Labor Day, restarting classes and shows. The staff and teachers are anxious to get […]
Upper Township Committee: Tow-away zone in Strathmere
Upper Township continues to deal with debris from Aug. 4 tornado By BILL BARLOW/Special to the Sentinel UPPER TOWNSHIP – Township Committee has asked the county to establish a tow-away zone along a pedestrian and bike lane on Commonwealth Avenue, the latest move to prevent people parking along the route. At recent meetings, some neighbors […]
Let your freak flag fly … or at least political flags
Solicitor: City cannot regulate flags, including those with ‘off-color’ messages By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff OCEAN CITY – People may not like all of the political flags flying around Ocean City, but citizens have the right to fly them. At Thursday evening’s Ocean City Council meeting, City Solicitor Dorothy McCrosson said “complaints have been trickling in” to […]
Northfield officials: School won’t budge on split schedule
They say city does not have the money to pay crossing guards necessary for school’s COVID-19 plan By CRAIG D. SCHENCK/Sentinel staff NORTHFIELD — City Council has made it clear that it was not involved, nor was it asked to participate, in the school district’s reopening plan amid the COVID-19 pandemic that requires nearly triple […]
Ordinance on covering dumpsters needs to be revised
By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff OCEAN CITY – After a citizen spent months complaining about large construction dumpsters that have been left uncovered, City Solicitor Dorothy McCrosson explained the regulations are confusing and suggested Ocean City Council change the language in the ordinance. Ocean City resident Bob Forman has spent months emailing city officials asking them to […]
‘Stolen’ church saved
Trustees of Tabernacle Baptist got the deed back, but city won’t budge on putting it up for tax sale By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff OCEAN CITY – The trustees of Tabernacle Baptist Church won their fight against the former pastor who had the church property improperly deeded into his name last year and then tried to […]
Show goes on at Gateway
By CRAIG D. SCHENCK/Sentinel staff SOMERS POINT — The show must go on, even if it has to be outside. That was the thought behind Backyard at the Gateway, an open-mic piano bar Thursday night at the Gateway Playhouse on Bay Avenue. “This is a way to offer live entertainment in a safe environment and […]
Indoor dining ‘too little, too late’
It resumes Sept. 4 as summer season ends Boardwalk mer By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff Starting Friday morning, you can have breakfast inside a restaurant and then hit a movie. Gov. Phil Murphy announced Monday afternoon, Aug. 31, that he was signing an executive order allowing indoor dining in restaurants to resume as of 6 a.m. […]
The Haves and Have Nots
Al fresco dining has been the key to survival for restaurants on Bay Avenue in Somers Point By CRAIG D. SCHENCK/Sentinel staff SOMERS POINT — The story of summer 2020 for restaurants on Bay Avenue in Somers Point is about the haves and the have nots. With indoor dining not allowed as the state works […]