Cape May County

One person died, and four were seriously ill from a flesh eating bacteria that was found over the past two years in the Delaware Bay.  The Courier-Post reports that vibrio bacteria lives in warm, brackish waters.  Cases peaked over the past two summers in late July and August, when the …

Representatives from Senator Cory Booker’s office will be in Cape May County on Friday, June 21st to help local lawmakers with any issues citizens may have.  The community meeting will be held for three hours starting at 1pm that day at the School House Office Park, on South Main Street, …

Voter turnout was awful Tuesday night in Cape May County primary elections.  Top vote getters for countywide races did not earn 4,000 votes in any of the balloting . In Stone Harbor, Charles Krafczek and Jennifer Gensemer won primary races there; Kraafczek won by only nine votes.

Cape May County will be testing out its Code Red emergency alert system on Friday, June 7th.  A test alert will be issued to approximately 100,000 telephones on that date between the hours of 11am and 2pm.  Emergency Management Director Marty Pagliughi says it’s important to conduct a test each …

It appears that there will be no contested elections in Cape May County’s primary elections next week.  None of the ballots posted for the 16 municipalities on the official County website have any contested races.  In some communities there is no democratic opposition to republican candidates.  This fall, there will …

You can drive north to Philadelphia today from the shore..but it will take you most of the day to do it.  Just before lunchtime today, northbound traffic on the Garden State Parkway was crawling between Stone Harbor Boulevard all the way to the Atlantic City Expressway.  Similar traffic jams are …

The New Jersey Assembly approved a bill Thursday that will not subject short term rentals at the Jersey Shore to various taxes.  The legislation passed unanimously on Thursday and now heads to the Senate.  Lawmakers have been blistered by shore rental property owners and realtors about the extension of this …

Cape May County has kicked off its annual Coastal Water Monitoring Program.  The program will result in 61 ocean and one back bay recreational site being tested weekly for bacteria and other issues.  The program operates under the Cape May County Department of Health.

Cape May County tourism expenditures totaled $6.6 billion last year.  Nearly two thirds of the revenue was generated by lodging, food, and beverage.  Cape May County held its annual tourism conference Friday morning.  Increases were experienced last year in lodging, rental income, retail, transportation, recreation, and food and beverage.

Richard Prickett is the new chairman of the Pinelands Commission.  Governor Phil Murphy announced this week that Prickett gets the job heading up the Commission.  He is recently retired from teaching biology in an Ocean County school district.