Somers Point school budget has 1.9-cent hike
SOMERS POINT — The Board of Education adopted the Somers Point School District’s $22,668,282 budget for 2023-24 on April 27. The spending plan includes a 2 percent tax levy increase coupled with staffing cuts, according to a presentation by Superintendent Michelle CarneyRay-Yoder and Business Administrator Mary Conroy. The local school tax rate, which had remained […]
Officials impressed by work so far on Somers Point Village Apartments
SOMERS POINT – Somers Point City Council President Janice Johnston and Councilman Howard Dill recently visited the Somers Point Village Apartments complex, where they met with representatives for an update on the improvements. City Council began talks last year with the owner of the affordable-housing complex off Somers Point-Mays Landing Road following years of crimes, […]
Somers Point school hosting Superhero Date Night
SOMERS POINT — “Costumes encouraged,” Devon Kallen said of the Superhero Date Night coming up this week at Jordan Road School. Student Council is inviting all students in kindergarten through second grade to bring one special person to the event. Children can bring an important adult in their lives — a parent, guardian or older sibling, […]
Somers Point dispensary would draw from Ocean City, Upper Township
Big marijuana revenue projected if approved SOMERS POINT — City Council has been passing around the idea of allowing marijuana sales for years but could never get any data on anticipated tax revenue. City resident Max Slusher, a member of the Economic Development Advisory Commission, finally delivered that data during a presentation March 23. In […]
Health insurance, pensions
SOMERS POINT — Rising employee health insurance costs and police and fire pension obligations are driving a proposed 8.36-cent increase in the municipal tax rate in Somers Point. The proposed increase is nearly double that of any in the past decade. According to Sentinel archives, the municipal tax rate was 83 cents per $100 in […]
Bayfest returns to Point April 29
SOMERS POINT — “I am extremely happy that we are going to have Bayfest on April 29,” Mayor Jack Glasser said March 9. “Bayfest is like the Good Old Days (festival), it really makes Somers Point shine. I just couldn’t see Somers Point not having it.” Started in 1989 to coincide with Earth Day and […]
Somers Point approves short-term rental regs
No limits on parking, but 3-day-stay minimums, mercantile licenses set SOMERS POINT — What had been a hot-button issue in the city by the bay for the past two years fizzled out to its ultimate conclusion March 9 when City Council passed new regulations on short-term rentals. Following multiple meetings since City Council first addressed […]
Somers Point veterans group to put shine on War of 1812 monument
SOMERS POINT — Naval history is a big deal in Somers Point, a city whose namesake son died fighting for the fledgling U.S. Navy off the coast of Tripoli during the Barbary Wars. Efforts to repatriate the remains of Master Commandant Richard Somers, who was killed while leading a fireship attack in 1804, continue to […]
Authorities probe fatal shooting in Somers Point
‘No threat to the public’ SOMERS POINT — Authorities are investigating the fatal shooting of a woman Saturday morning at a Third Street home. The Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes Unit and Somers Point Police Department are investigating the death. According to a news release from the Prosecutor’s Office, police responded to the home […]
Somers Point proposes regs on short-term rentals
Public hearing scheduled March 9 SOMERS POINT — Operating a short-term rental property soon may become more expensive in Somers Point, where City Council proposed adding a tax, increasing a fee and instituting financial penalties for code violations. The three measures proposed Feb. 23 are intended to increase oversight of the properties, which are booked […]