Lower Township

Lower Township’s Christmas parade will be held next Saturday.  Lower Township Police announced that the Rotary’s annual parade will be held along Bayshore Road starting at 6pm next Saturday, at the Breakwater Plaza.  The parade is expected to be over by 9:00pm.

Four people were arrested in connection with a gunpoint robbery in Lower Township.  Township police say a man who was going to conduct a drug transaction was robbed by the individuals.  They have been identified as 18 year old Louis Garcia of North Cape May, 19 year old Jonathan Halas …

A father of eight children was killed early Sunday morning when a car crashed into his disabled vehicle on the Garden State Parkway in Little Egg Harbor.  State Police say Stephen M. Chiarle of North Cape May lost his life when the car slammed into his vehicle shortly after 2am …

Lower Township Police say all of the fire departments in the community responded to a stubborn house fire that destroyed a home located at 2727 Bay Drive in the Villas Tuesday morning.  When officers arrived, the house was fully involved in flames.  No injuries are reported; the cause of the …

A huge fire has obliterated a home located bayside in the Villas today.  Fire and smoke were seen for miles throughout the day as the home went up in flames in the 2700 block of Bay Drive.  No reports yet of any injuries.

48 year old Jennifer R. Pagano of Lower Township has been arrested on various drug offenses.  The Cape May County Prosecutor’s Office announced that distribution amounts of heroin and meth were seized from Pagano’s residence, along with drug items.  She has been charged with various drug related crimes.

19 year old Albert McCarraher of North Cape May has been charged with sexual assault crimes against three different underage girls.  County authorities and Lower Township Police say the investigation began after a 14 year old girl complained about an assault less than a week ago.  McCarraher has been lodged …

Lower Township will be holding a Veterans Day parade on Saturday.  The parade will step off Saturday at 11am at the Villas Fire Hall on Bayshore Road and proceed south to the Lower Township Municipal Building.

Lower Township Police have announced that the intersection of Amhurst Road and Roseann Avenue remains substantially closed through the end of next week.  Police say ongoing construction is to blame.  The 100 block of Roseann Avenue is no longer accessible from Bayshore Road.

A new proposed aquatic center in Lower Township was approved last night, while a similar project in Sea Isle City was rejected.  Lower Township voters cast over 5,000 ballots on the pool question and it was approved by slightly over 100 votes.  Not so in Sea Isle City, where the …