Somers Point Council honors late service K-9 Erco
Fulfilled police duties and served as an ambassador SOMERS POINT — On Dec. 12, City Council honored retired K-9 officer Erco for his years of service following his death Oct. 6. Erco was accepted into the Somers Point Police Department in March 2013 and, serving with partner Officer Rick Dill, was responsible for countless warrant […]
Ocean City tennis courts being resurfaced
OCEAN CITY – Ocean City is redoing the tennis courts across Atlantic Avenue from Ocean City High School. The facility, between Fifth and Sixth streets, will keep the same number of hard and soft tennis courts as before. Work is expected to be done in time for the OCHS spring tennis season. – Photos by […]
Ocean City Winery denied outlet in Somers Point
Correction: An earlier version of this story, including one in the print edition of the Dec. 18 Sentinel, regarding the Somers Point Zoning Board decision on the 825 Bay Avenue LLC application included an error on the vote. Board members voted three in favor, four against. SOMERS POINT — An Upper Township couple is dismayed […]
Atlantic City man indicted for criminal mischief in drone pool dye case
MAYS LANDING – Anthony M. Spina, 31, of Atlantic City was indicted by an Atlantic County grand jury charging him with conspiracy to commit criminal mischief and criminal mischief, both crimes of the third-degree, on Dec. 12. It is alleged that on multiple occasions between June 1 and Sept. 1, 2023, that Spina agreed with […]
Year after beach fill, erosion takes toll on Strathmere
STRATHMERE — “We need another replenishment project,” Committeeman Curtis Corson said Dec. 9, when Township Committee reviewed the latest beach report. The Stockton University Coastal Research Center surveyed the Strathmere beaches Sept. 27 and 30 and recently delivered its third-quarter report. “We have lost 25 percent of the sand that was placed on the beach,” […]
Police, EMTs, firefighters honored in Upper Township
Burning bus, near-drownings, car crash, fires and collapsing stairs; busy year for first responders PETERSBURG — Burning school buses, near-drownings, brush fires, collapsing stairs, car crashes — Upper Township can be a calamitous place. Fortunately for its residents, visitors and others passing through, there is a large group of dedicated volunteers to pick people up […]
Sea&Do
Masonic Lodge Pancake breakfast OCEAN CITY – Ocean City Mason Lodge No. 171 F.&A.M. is having a pancake breakfast starting at 8 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 28 at the lodge, 940 Wesley Ave. Breakfast includes specialty pancakes, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, coffee and juice. Cost is $12 for adults, $8 for children and $10 for veterans. Walk-ins […]
Mita: I’d sell if I can’t build the hotel
Defends Wonderland owner, hears critics, supporters at Tabernacle presentation OCEAN CITY — During a testy exchange with a resident who kept interrupting and challenging him during last week’s public presentation at the Ocean City Tabernacle, developer Eustace Mita said he would sell the Wonderland Pier amusement park site if his proposed hotel project were denied. […]
Gillian: I won’t benefit from hotel; process to replace Wonderland will be transparent
OCEAN CITY — Mayor Jay Gillian assured the public that he would not be benefiting from anything that will replace Wonderland Pier amusement park, that Eustace Mita’s hotel proposal faces a long road before it could be approved, and that he hates to see how the issue is dividing Ocean City. Gillian and his late father […]
Pancoast resigns from Upper Township Committee
PETERSBURG — Mark Pancoast resigned from Township Committee on Dec. 9 in a move that appeared to come as a surprise to others on the governing body. “Over the past year, I found my personal schedule increasingly conflicts with my ability to devote the necessary time to council. That’s not fair to the employees, it’s […]