The Middle Township Committee will meet on Friday afternoon and it is expected to re-hire Mark Mallet as the township’s business administrator. The township committee had been talking about a new agreement with Mallet over the past few weeks. The committee is expected to discuss the appointment and move into closed session for formal action. …
Rutgers University will be looking for a new head football coach. Varous sports oulets including NFL.com and SI.com both report this afternoon that Rutgers head football coach Greg Schiano has reached an agreement to coach the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Schiano gets a five year contract.
It will be one of the most important boys basketball games of the season in the Cape Atlantic League, and WCZT 98.7FM the Coast will provide complete coverage on Friday night. Brian Cunniff and Buddy Tarbotton have the call of the boys matchup between Wildwood Catholic and Pleasantville. Both teams enter the game with identical…
Pitcher Brad Lidge will play in the National League East in 2012, but not as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies. The Washington Nationals announced that they have signed the former Phillies closer to a one year contract worth $1 million. Lidge went 0-2 with a 1.45 ERA for Philadelphia last season. Back in the…
Some repair working is coming to runways at the Woodbine Municipal Airport. Woodbine officials announced today that a $22,000 contract has been awarded to a construction company to repair 5,000 feet of cracks and pavement along Taxiway A and B at the airport. Cracks will be sealed, and broken pavement will be removed. The State…
A project will be adding more sand to portions of the Avalon beach. The Avalon Borough Council awarded a contract to Mount Construction Company, Inc. of Berlin, New Jersey to conduct a backpassing beach fill that will result in 60,000 cubic yards of sand being moved from two beachfronts in the southern portion of the…
Lower Township taxpayers will be happy again this year. The township is not expected to have a tax increase, according to Deputy Mayor Kevin Lare. The announcement came during Wednesday’s council meeting, where Lare said the township finances were in good order and taxes should remain flat for another year. No formal budgets have been…
He was a passenger in a car that was involved in a drunk driving accident early this morning in Philadelphia. Si.com reports that Eagles tight end Brent Celek was not injured when a vehicle he was riding in crashed on a highway off ramp near Lincoln Financial Field around 2:30am Thursday. Wednesday was Celek’s 27th…
The wife of the late Alex DeCroce will take over his assembly seat. Betty Lou DeCroce won a vote in front of a Republican committee in the 26th district. Alex DeCroce passed away a couple of weeks ago. She is going to have to give up her post at the state Department of Community Affairs.
Bad news for customers of Blockbuster in Vineland and Bridgeton, the stores are going to be closing. The Daily Journal reports that both stores are preparing to shut their doors. The report says that the company is going to attempt to move the employees to another store. It isn’t clear how long they will stay…