What’s happening in Ocean City: Fall Block Party weekend to feature new drone show
Ocean City’s Fall Block Party will return from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 11, and this year a new drone show will cap off a day of family fun at 8 p.m. that evening. Watch as hundreds of drones in the sky create dazzling images synchronized to music over the...
Registration Open for Halloween Parade and House Decorating Contest
Registration is now open for anybody who would like to participate in Ocean City’s annual Halloween Parade or in the Halloween House Decorating Contest. The 77th annual Halloween Parade will start at 7:15 p.m. Thursday, October 30, 2025 and travel...
Two competing offers emerge for former Wonderland Pier property
Less than a month after Ocean City Council rejected a proposal that could have paved the way for a luxury hotel on the Boardwalk, the site of the former Gillian’s Wonderland Pier has drawn multiple purchase offers. In August, the Council voted 6-1 against designating...
Remembering the Park Theatre fire
A Look Back “Park Fire Loss Set at $75,000” was the headline on the Sept. 12, 1930, Ocean City Sentinel-Ledger. The article reported, “Less than 48 hours (after) it had closed for the season, the Park Theatre, at Park Place and the Boardwalk, was destroyed by fire,...
