Concerned about letter on vaping at Ocean City High School
To the Editor: I am writing to express my concern about the letter we received from the principal of Ocean City High School on Oct. 14 regarding administration being aware of the alarming rate of vaping (both nicotine and marijuana) in the bathrooms at the high school. The letter indicated that there are reports of […]
Local races can have the biggest impact
Who will best serve on local councils, committees? We’re fascinated by how parties are so ingrained in municipal elections. We guess officials have to start their political careers somewhere. There are City Council and Township Committee seats up for election next week and the party affiliations appear to be playing an overt part in most […]
School board profiles
The Sentinel has been interviewing the 11 candidates for the Ocean City Board of Education and the six candidates (including one write-in) for the Upper Township Board of Education. The profiles will be published online at ocnjsentinel.com and will appear in next week’s edition of the Ocean City Sentinel and Upper Township Sentinel. The candidates have […]
No information, misinformation
GOP ticket ducks candidate event, fabricates story instead The Upper Township Business Association hosted a forum Sept. 30 for the nine candidates seeking seats on Upper Township Committee to provide voters with some information to help them choose their elected officials. Unfortunately for those in attendance, three of the candidates chose not to participate, instead […]
A nation divided
Can we stitch the population of the country back together? A few weeks ago, during ceremonies around the area commemorating the bravery of our police and firefighters during the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States, most speakers spoke of the unity felt in the aftermath. America appeared as one in response to […]
Good that mayoral race now out in the open
With Councilman Keith Hartzell’s official announcement Monday that he is running for mayor of Ocean City, it gets an open secret fully out into the open. We hope this bodes well for what we expect to be a long campaign for the May 2022 election. It has been obvious Hartzell has been distancing himself from […]
Whose rights take priority in mask mandate?
Debates raging across the nation over mask mandates for children in schools arrived in Ocean City Tuesday, Aug. 24, during a two-hour community forum on getting the students back to school in September. At the heart of the debate is a simple but complicated question: Whose rights get precedence? Are the rights of parents who […]
Body cameras worn by local police protect public and officers
As George Orwell foresaw in his sci-fi classic “1984,” Big Brother is watching — and listening. Like it or not, we live in an age of surveillance where privacy is the exception rather than the rule. A quick look around on any street corner in America will reveal multiple cameras, both public and private, collecting […]
Masks in schools hurt education and did not work; Murphy should stop interfering
It seems everyone is an armchair epidemiologist these days. I don’t profess to know much about infectious disease, other than what I’ve observed over a half century of my life. Gov. Murphy recently broke a promise to New Jersey citizens to reopen schools fully in the fall without a mask mandate, and to leave any […]
How things change with a mayoral race less than a year away
The relationship between Ocean City Council and the Gillian Administration has changed markedly in the last year. Out of last week’s two-and-a-half-hour council meeting, a few minutes illustrate that point. It’s like there’s an election coming up next year and campaigns have been gearing up behind the scenes for months. Some of the machinations become […]