Bill Burns stays on Avalon’s Borough Council. Voters put Burns back into the seat that he was appointed to in the summer, and now Burns will fill out the remainder of the term vacated by Dave Ellenberg. Burns earned 314 votes to 175 for James Lutz. Lutz has run for Council twice this year in…
Avalon will be holding a floodplain management meeting on Wednesday. Borough officials are developing a new flood plan that will earn the town more points in the Community Rating System as it attempts to improve its discount on flood insurance rates. Avalon already boasts of a 25 percent discount on flood insurance premiums, which ties…
Avalon captured the first-ever Mayor’s Cup bocce tournament on its home courts on Saturday. Avalon defeated Stone Harbor in a best of three bocce tournament, 11-5 and 11-6 to take home a traveling Mayor’s Cup trophy that the winner keeps until the competition next fall. The tournament was played at Avalon’s new 39th Street Park;…
Avalon’s big back bay dredging project has moved to Sterback Harbor in Middle Township. A dredge is removing mud and silt from the channel around Sterback Harbor, which his located in Avalon Manor, Middle Township. Avalon received participation in this project from both Middle Township and the State of New Jersey. The dredge next moves…
Tuesday, at 4:00pm. That’s when a scheduled, 20-minute power outage will affect areas of Avalon north of 61st Street. Atlantic City Electric was going to cut the power last week but postponed the outage due to weather concerns. The outage is needed to power down an old substation that is being replaced with a brand…
A power outage that was scheduled for Tuesday in Avalon will not happen, and will likely occur sometime next week. Atlantic City Electric decided to postpone a 20-minute outage in the Borough scheduled for Tuesday afternoon so a substation could be de-energized and power re-routed through the community. The utility is constructing a new substation…
Edmund and Arthur are two chatty parrots who caused their owner to appear in court on Monday for a noise complaint citation. Elaine Scattergood, who lives on 30th Street in Avalon, was in court Monday after a caller complained about her two birds to police and the racket they make in the neighborhood. Judge George Neidig…
Parts of Avalon will be subject to a scheduled power outage Tuesday afternoon. Avalon officials say that all sections of the Borough north of 61st Street will lose power for about 20 minutes at 4:00pm on Tuesday. The reason? Atlantic City Electric is building a new power substation in town and must cut power to…
Avalon Police are asking the public to drop off any unwanted or expired prescription drugs on Saturday. The Borough is participating in a drug take back program between the hours of 10am and 2pm at the Borough’s Public Safety Building. Last year, Americans turned in 309 tons of drugs during the one day event that…
A Lithuanian man has been indicted by a grand jury for a sexual assault that occurred in Avalon earlier this summer. 22 year old Egidijus Riaubys was working in the United States on a visa when he allegedly assaulted a woman who was unconscious on Ocean Drive during the early morning hours of July 26th.…