The Cape May Ministerium, which is composed of the members of the clergy of the churches of all denominations in the City of Cape May, are sponsoring a live television broadcast of the papal mass by Pope Francis on Sunday afternoon, September 27, 2015 at 4:00 P.M. in Cape May Convention Hall. The City of…
Morey’s Piers recently had the distinction of being named “Best Seaside Park” by an industry news leader. The award was announced by Amusement Today during the 2015 Golden Ticket Awards in Coney Island last weekend. The classic seaside attraction was selected at the top of its category by Amusement Today’s selected panel of experienced park…
Sea Isle City is going to have a new city hall beginning on Monday. The new city hall and police department building will be opening together at 233 JFK Blvd. The original buildings were damaged during Hurricane Sandy and the city has been working since to build a new structure. The current city hall is…
The Middle Township Police Department has been alerted to a new phone scam. A Township resident was contacted on the phone and was told that a relative was involved in a crash. The other driver in the crash was a gang member, and the relative had been kidnapped. The scammers requested an amount of cash…
Cape May and the Cape May County Prosecutor have come to an agreement to settle. The settlement will allow the city of the move forward with the administrative matters involving the police department, including the disciplinary hearing of Lt. Lear and the lawsuit involving Captain Sheehan. The city agreed that the Cape May County Prosecutor…
The family of Tracy Hottenstein are going to try and prove in court she may have been alive when first responders found her on Polar Plunge weekend in Sea Isle City in 2009. The family says she wasn’t properly examined and was pronounced dead. Hottenstein’s body was found hours after she had been spending the…
The City of Cape May has decided not to sponsor the telecast of Pope Francis’ public Mass from Philadelphia, due to the threat of a lawsuit. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a legal and educational group based in Washington D.C., claimed the city’s sponsorship and free use of Cape May Convention Hall was…
By next spring the 40-foot wooden poles that deliver electricity to Seven Mile Island along 95th Street, will be replaced by 70-foot steel poles. Atlantic City Electric says they need to upgrade the electrical transmission lines to Stone Harbor and Avalon to avoid overloads next summer. The Press of Atlantic City reports that nearly 100…
A significant heroin seizure was made by the Cape May County Sheriff’s Office. John Joseph McCall, was arrested in possession of 422 bags of heroin. He was charged with possession, distribution, manufacturing, and dispensing of a controlled dangerous substance. Bail was set at $60,000. McCall was also arrested on a violation of a probation warrant…
The North Wildwood Police Department, in conjunction with the Cape May County Prosecutor’s Office and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) New Jersey Division, will be hosting Operation Take Back New Jersey on Saturday, September 26, 2015 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Officers will be stationed in the lobby of the North Wildwood Police Department…