Wednesday provides a final day of preparation for Lower Cape May and Middle Township football teams in advance of the annual Anchor Bowl game to be broadcast live on WCZT. Middle Township has five wins and a playoff appearance this season, while Lower Cape May has won twice, both times against Wildwood. Lower Cape May…
Avalon’s Borough Council met Tuesday afternoon and discussed an update to its own floodplain management plan. Engineer Tom Thornton and Business Administrator Scott Wahl discussed a series of meetings in the Borough this year that led to a revision of the plan. Wahl also updated Council on efforts to secure a hydraulic beach fill for…
The 96th Street Bridge in Stone Harbor is open, but with new restrictions. Cape May County Engineer Dale Foster announced that the bridge be load posted at 15 tons as a result of a further inspection of the span which had been closed since late October. All trucks and busses will be diverted through Avalon…
Commercial properties will have to use dumpsters in Upper Township. The Upper Township Gazette reports that the Township Committee approved an ordinance this week that requires the use of the dumpsters; commercial properties may also contract with a private hauler for recycling pickup. Businesses will be provided with one free 96-gallon container for recycling.
Avalon is joining the statewide effort to show support for local law enforcement with a thin blue line painted between two yellow lines on Avalon Boulevard on the entrance to town. Mayor Martin Pagliughi says the line is a show of gratitude by residents, property owners, and visitors for the tremendous level of public service…
Vineland Police have charged a 54 year old man with hitting his girlfriend over the head with a hammer last weekend. The Daily Journal reports that Billy Gerald of Gheysen Avenue was arrested after police responded to a report of an assault. Gerald was held in the Cumberland County Jail on $10,000 cash bail.
The closure of the Trump Taj Mahal Casino in October helped Atlantic City casinos lose just over ten percent of its gross operating profits during the third quarter of this year. The closure of the casino followed a lengthy labor strike which cropped the Taj Mahal. During the first nine months of this year, the…
A motel owner at the Jersey Shore could spend up to three years behind bars after he admitted this week to filing false tax returns. Kenneth Bowden owns the Sand and Surf Motel in Seaside Heights. He deposited hundreds of thousands of dollars into his personal bank account without reporting the revenue to the IRS.
Authorities are searching for the armed gunman who held up a branch of BB&T Bank in Vineland Tuesday morning. Police say a masked man walked into the branch around 11am, brandished a handgun, and demanded money. He fled the scene and may have driven south on Delsea Drive in a Ford Explorer. Anyone with information…
AAA projects over 1.2 million New Jerseyans will journey 50 miles or more from home during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, up 4.3 percent from those who traveled for Thanksgiving 2015 and the largest projected number of travelers since 2007. Nationwide, 48.7 million Americans will journey 50 miles or more from home this Thanksgiving, an increase…