Ocean City cancels pageants in 2020
Miss O.C., Junior Miss and Little Miss to keep titles for an extra year OCEAN CITY – Organizers for the Miss Ocean City, Junior Miss Ocean City and Little Miss Ocean City pageants have decided not to host competitions this August. Instead, the three reigning 2020 titleholders will hold their respective titles until August 2021. […]
Hotels, motels to clean more, offer less to customers
Business association details how to reopen businesses safety in pandemic By JACK FICHTER/Sentinel staff The pool may be closed, the complimentary breakfast gone, the fitness center dark and the coffeemaker removed from the hotel room, and you’ll need to bring your own pillows, blankets and paper products to your rental home. Welcome to the shore […]
Governor: We must fix systemic racism in our society
By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff With protests and rioting across the nation over the weekend, hitting as close as Atlantic City and Philadelphia in the wake of the Minneapolis death of George Floyd at the hands of police, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy focused his attention on the pervasive racism that has led to the unrest. […]
Cape May, Atlantic counties report COVID numbers
By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff Over the past weekend, there have been only a few positive test results each day for COVID-19 in Cape May County and one new death reported in Middle Township, but on Monday, June 1, the county reported another death in Lower Township and 10 new cases. In neighboring Atlantic County over […]
No tax hike in Ocean City budget
By DAVID NAHAN Sentinel staff OCEAN CITY – If Ocean City’s fiscal 2020 budget is approved on final reading June 25, taxpayers won’t feel an increase in their taxes. The new budget held the line on taxes. Initially, when Mayor Jay Gillian presented his budget on Feb. 27, it came in with a half-penny increase […]
Ocean City High School seniors get their red carpet moment
Sophia Meyler poses in front of a banner outside Ocean City High School Wednesday afternoon, May 27. Seniors, who missed their prom because of the COVID-19 pandemic, were given the opportunity to walk a red carpet beneath the old entrance to OCHS and across Atlantic Avenue to their high school. Scroll down for full image […]
More business freedom … two weeks from now
Retailers can open June 15 and salons can open June 22 By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff Gov. Phil Murphy continues to slowly reopen the New Jersey economy. That means another two weeks of waiting – at minimum. On Monday, June 1, the governor said non-essential retail businesses can start having limited patrons in their stores starting […]
Hundreds protest peacefully in Somers Point, Ocean City
By CRAIG D. SCHENCK/Sentinel staff OCEAN CITY — A couple of hundred people gathered Tuesday, June 2, at the foot of the Route 52 causeway in Somers Point before making their way across the bridge to Ocean City, where they gathered in front of the police department. It was the latest show of opposition to the […]
Upper Township school deals with bullying issue
Father believes district did not do enough with incident involving son By BILL BARLOW/Special to the Sentinel UPPER TOWNSHIP – A father took issue with how the Upper Township Middle School handled an incident in which his son lost consciousness at the school. At the May 19 Upper Township Board of Education meeting, held remotely […]
Ocean City Theatre Company forced to cancel season
OCEAN CITY – Unfortunately, the old saying “the show must go on” will not apply to the Ocean City Theatre Company’s 2020 season. OCTC has made the difficult decision to cancel its Summer Broadway Series and Music Pier Children’s Theatre Series. “Ultimately the safety of our staff, artists, students and patrons are at the foundation […]