Since 1869, Ocean Grove has closed its privately owned Jersey Shore beach for religious observation on Sunday mornings. Now, the OGCMA has been ordered by the state to open it for the summer.

Hundreds of sun-worshipers flocked to an Ocean Grove, NJ, beach for the first time in 155 years Sunday morning -- after state officials ordered the Christian sect that owns the sandy stretch to ...

Michael Badger, President of Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association shows the reconstructed Ocean Grove pier in Ocean Grove, NJ on Thursday Mar. 9, 2023.

NEPTUNE - The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association closes access to the beach from the boardwalk on Sunday mornings in the summer, believing it provides a "quality-of-life benefit" to the community.

Michael Badger, president of Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, shows the reconstructed Ocean Grove pier in Ocean Grove, NJ on Thursday Mar. 9, 2023.Get Photo. 29 / 32.

Recent scenes from Ocean Grove, New Jersey, a town on the Jersey Shore that shows respect for religious observation on 15 seasonal Sundays every year. It's been facing pushback on this of late.

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection sent the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, a Methodist Heritage organization, a violation notice on Thursday demanding that the group ...

OCEAN GROVE - The Ocean Grove pier, damaged in 2012 during Superstorm Sandy, is being rebuilt by a nonprofit Christian organization in the shape of a cross, a design that has drawn some local ...