Lower Township residents will be hoping for history tonight. Lauren Holden has a chance to score her 2,000 point of her career when Bridgeton visits the Caper Tigers tonight. The game will be broadcast on 98.7 FM The Coast. Holden only needs 15 points for history. She will be attending Fordham University next year.
A woman was revived in Lower Township using narcan. Lower Township Police Department received a report of an unconscious and unresponsive female inside of a residence in the 3000 block of Bayshore Road in the North Cape May section of the township on Wednesday. The victim was transported to the Cape Regional Medical Center for additional treatment.
A decision has been made for a new chief of police in Egg Harbor Township. The governing body named Capt. Ray Davis as the new chief for the police department effective Feb. 1. Chief Michael Morris will be leaving that position on that date for another job. The vote was unanimous for making the change.
Mike Voll is out and Jim Ridgeway is in. Lower Township Council voted by a 3-2 margin in favor of making Ridgeway the full-time manager. Ridgeway had been serving in that role on a temporary bases over the past two weeks. Mayor Mike Beck dissented, saying he wanted to see a process that involved taking…
Gov. Chris Christie is taking more power in Atlantic City. The resort now has an emergency management team to develop a plan for the city. Kevin Lavin and Kevyn Orr will be the two major players on the team. Lavin has a history of helping troubled companies revive themselves. Orr helped lead Detroit through the biggest municipal bankruptcy…
A photo has been released of a lewdness suspect in Hamilton Township. The female victim reported that the suspect exposed his genitals to her in the parking lot of the Wawa on Jan. 4. The investigation recently resulted in the recovery of surveillance footage which shows the suspect and his vehicle. A photo of the male suspect…
Lower Township hired three new police officers. Shawn Lafferty Jr., Jordan Saini, and Anthony Micciche all took their oath of office on Wednesday at the regularly scheduled council meeting. Council has said it is a goal of their to increase the police force and get more officers on the streets. All three recently graduated the…
The biggest business in Wildwood and the city government don’t see eye to eye on future EDM, or electronic dance music concerts in the city. The city signed a three year deal with the group that put on the Beachglow concert last year over the Fourth of July weekend. The concerts will remain on that…
New unemployment numbers are in and numbers dropped again in New Jersey. The jobless rate in the state was at 6.2 percent in Dec., which is down .2 percent from Nov. A review of unemployment from the end of 2013 to the end of 2014 shows the private sector grew by nearly 30,000 jobs. It…
Gov. Chris Christie’s popularity would not win him a presidential race against Hillary Clinton. A new Quinnipiac University Poll says that the governor would lose 52 to 39 percent based on the current thought process of state voters. Both Clinton and Christie have been talked about for a 2016 presidential run, but neither has said at…