A public hearing on a rent control ordinance that includes Ocean Grove is scheduled for Monday night’s Neptune Township Committee meeting. The committee may vote on the measure after the hearing. The ordinance limits rent increases to the regional consumer price index. Rental properties throughout Neptune are subject to the ordinance. The measure is similar […]

Neptune Township has secured a grant for dredging, improvements, and maintenance of Wesley and Fletcher lakes. The funds come from the National Resource Conservation Service [NRCS], a federal agency that falls under the umbrella of the United States Department of Agriculture. The agency’s purpose is to help landowners “conserve, maintain and improve their natural resources.” […]

The Bridge Christian Radio will host this year’s Bridgefest Beach Festival in Ocean Grove Friday and Saturday. Christian music performers Lincoln Brewster and Mikeschair will be performing in the Great Auditorium on Friday, according to a press release from the event’s promoters. On Saturday there will be “an ocean baptism, Q-and-A panels, surf clinics, vendors, bible […]

One of the region’s most famous landmarks, Ocean Grove’s Grand Auditorium, lost a large portion of its roof during Hurricane Sandy [pictured above], but officials say permanent repairs should be done by Memorial Day. The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association oversees the Auditorium’s operation, and the group’s interim chief operating officer is Ralph Del Campo. The […]

The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association discriminated against two women when it refused to allow them to use its boardwalk pavilion for their civil union ceremony in 2007, the director of New Jersey’s Division on Civil Rights has ruled. The decision, issued Monday, upholds an administrative law judge ruling that was issued in January. The […]

A sit-down between leaders of the gay and Methodist communities in Ocean Grove caught the attention of the New York Times today. In an A section story by Chadwick Moore entitled “In Methodist stronghold, a dialogue on gay rights”, the Times reported on how these two groups — at odds over same-sex marriage and the […]

The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association has hired former television star Kirk Cameron to speak at the historic Grand Auditorium tonight — and some in the area are not happy about it. Cameron is scheduled to appear as part of the program “Love Worth Fighting For,” along with Christian musician Warren Barfield. The program is […]

The air was filled with patriotism and lots of candy this morning as Ocean Grove celebrated Independence Day with its annual parade. Adults and children lined the streets along the parade’s route, many of them armed with bags and baskets to catch the candy that was thrown from almost every truck, car and float that […]

The Ocean Grove historic preservation commission [HPC] met last night to hear six applications, mostly related to porch repair. Ocean Grove, which is part of Neptune Township, is a designated historic district under township ordinances. The HPC enforces the historic preservation provisions in township ordinances which apply only to Ocean Grove. The remainder of Neptune […]

Bob Easin, 38, started working at Ocean Grove Hardware when he was 14. Now he and his wife own the place. “I came with the store,” joked Easin, who was already working there when Dave and Carol Gilliland bought the Main Avenue business 20 years ago. “I started working here when I was 14 in […]