A Christian shore town will open its beach on Sunday mornings for the first time in 155 years. Since 1869, Ocean Grove, New Jersey, has kept its mile-long strip of Jersey Shore beach closed for ...

The peaceful, quiet atmosphere in Ocean Grove has attracted beachgoers for more than 150 years. A dry town founded by Methodists, Ocean Grove has never shied away from its religious past. A recent ...

OCEAN GROVE, N.J. — In this seaside community that calls itself “God's Square Mile at the Jersey Shore,” all the land is owned by a religious group that has for generations enforced an 11th ...

Beachgoers walked onto the boardwalk at Ocean Grove, N.J., on Sunday, May 26, 2024. Beachgoers were out on the sand of one New Jersey shore community on a Sunday morning before Memorial day for the ...

OCEAN GROVE - The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, which governs much of life in a place that has been nicknamed "God's Square Mile," has been forced to allow access to the beach from its ...

A Christian religious group that has closed its beaches on Sunday mornings for generations to honor God is relenting temporarily, allowing beachgoers onto the sand while it fights a court case with ...

Simple sounds of nature have such restorative effects on the body and brain. The trill of birdsong, the rasp of blowing leaves, the patter of rainfall and the crash of ocean waves are almost ...

State officials have notified a Jersey Shore landowners’ association that it could be fined up to $25,000 a day if it resumes blocking beach access on Sunday mornings next summer. The latest warning ...

Regarding Rachel Chiu’s “New Jersey Demands That ‘God’s Square Mile’ Open on Sundays” (Cross Country, Nov. 4): While the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, a religious organization, claims to own ...