Red Cross officials say their goal in securing host families for Operation Fireside next week has been reached. The program matches U.S. Coast Guard recruits from Training Center Cape May with host families a home-cooked meal on Thanksgiving and Christmas. The Red Cross has been coordinating this special holiday program since the early 1980’s in…
On Wednesday night, Cape May County will host it’s fourth “Faces of Addiction” forum. The topic of the public forum is the heroin epidemic and runs from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Cape May County Administration Building, in the Crest Haven Complex. At Wednesday’s forum, brief reports will be given by subcommittees on different…
A special election to decide whether Cape May could leave the Lower Cape May Regional School District has been turned away by voters. The “no” vote won 92 percent to 8 percent and the margin was close to 4500. It was expected the Cape May would lose because Lower Township voters greatly outnumber the amount…
A rainy forecast has change the date for one of the more popular parades. West Cape May’s Christmas parade has been moved from Saturday to Sunday as a result of the forecast. The parade will again begin at 5 p.m. but the date moved to Sunday in hopes of providing better weather for the event.
Problems with the unmaned aircraft that was going to operate in the Cape May area has been pushed back. Officials cited technical issues with the technology as the reason for the delay. The aircraft was going to conduct research off the coast of Cape May. It isn’t expected that the delay will be more than…
Cape May County will doing work along Beach Ave. in Cape May. Cape May County Engineer Dale Foster told Coastal Broadcasting the project would be between Wilmington Ave. and Madison Ave. The majority of the work will involve fixing and extending the outfall pipes in those areas. Foster says some of the work is related…
On Saturday afternoon, the U.S. Coast Guard came to the rescue of three people who grounded their boat off the Cape May coast. The 35-foot boat’s hull was damaged when it struck a shoal in Delaware Bay at about 3:30 p.m. and began taking on water. An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Air Station Atlantic…
A boat called “Sea Dogs” won the top overall championship at the 20th Annual Striper Classic at Utsch’s Marina in Cape May on Saturday afternoon. Captain Charlie Rice’s boat brought in three stripers with a total weight of 102 pounds. The “Gussy” captained by Tim Lynam placed second, and “Gold Rush” captained by Dan Avena…
Cape May Police say they took in a suspect on Saturday for burglary, theft, and criminal mischief. Vincent T. Kotelnicki, age 22, of Villas, was taken in by authorities. Police responded to a call at 6:47AM on Saturday from an Elmira Street restaurant of a Burglary in progress. The caller reported that while opening and…
Voters in the Lower Cape May Regional school district did not approve a change to the school funding formula in the district. In total, 73 percent of voters said they didn’t want to change the funding formula to have each town pay per pupil. Currently, the schools are funded on a property value formula. This means…