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 […]
The apex and nadir of pie-eating: Enjoying the win, coping with loss
OCEAN CITY — Russ Crotts will not be celebrated among the pantheon of winners. He will not be in the spotlight. That may be good; Crotts’s face was so covered in pie that it was difficult to make out his features. Crotts will be known as the guy who finished as the runner-up in the […]
Patriotism on display in annual Gardens Civic Association Bike Parade
OCEAN CITY — Participants in the bike parade sweltered under a blazing sun and cloudless blue sky Saturday, but the triple-digit temperature could not compete with the patriotic fervor on the nation’s 250th Independence Day. “We love Fourth of July, we love this country and it’s just a great time to be out with the […]
Mita on rehab vote: This is a win for Ocean City
Hotelier and developer has harsh words for group threatening to sue OCEAN CITY — Eustace Mita called City Council’s June 25 vote “a win for Ocean City.” Council voted 5-2 in favor of designating the former Wonderland Pier amusement park site at 600 Boardwalk as “an area in need of rehabilitation.” It has been a […]
Ocean City Council approves rehab designation for Wonderland Pier parcel
Editor’s note: This story has been updated since Thursday evening. Look for an additional story about the public weighing in on the rehabilitation designation in the July 1 edition of the Sentinel. OCEAN CITY — During a nearly three-hour meeting, Ocean City Council voted 5-2 Thursday evening to approve the former Wonderland Pier parcel as […]
Ocean City 2050 advocacy group says it will sue city over Wonderland rehab designation
OCEAN CITY — The day after City Council voted to designate 600 Boardwalk as “an area in need of rehabilitation,” advocacy group Ocean City 2050 said it will join other groups to sue the city. The group believes the decision was wrong “strategically, procedurally, ethically, logically and morally,” according to a news release it issued […]
Carnegie Medal awarded to resident for rescuing woman
73-year-old Ocean City man saves her from rip current in resort OCEAN CITY — A 73-year-old Ocean City man saw a young woman minutes from drowning being carried offshore by a rip current. He didn’t hesitate. For saving her life last October, Frank John LaFerrara is one of 18 people awarded a Carnegie Medal for […]
Somers Point: Let businesses use city parking lots to meet requirements
SOMERS POINT — A measure proposed by Councilman Sean McGuigan would allow businesses to use space in city lots to fulfill parking requirements. Ordinance 17-2026, which was introduced June 25 in a 4-3 vote, states that commercial development, particularly along Bay Avenue and between Bay Avenue and Shore Road, is constrained due to the size […]
Citizens weigh in on rehab designation both pro and con
OCEAN CITY — Just like at sessions before City Council over more than a year, a host of citizens passionately weighed in Thursday evening to oppose or support a rehabilitation designation at the former Wonderland Pier amusement park site. In a meeting moved to the Ocean City Music Pier from council chambers to accommodate the […]