There were no winners in Saturday night’s Powerball lottery drawing. The estimated jackpot for the next drawn will be just shy of $300 million. There were over 903,000 tickets that won something during Saturday night’s drawing, so check your tickets. Tickets for this week’s drawing, two dollars.
Sunday evening and Monday morning, super moon time in South Jersey. The biggest super moon in about six decades will be in the autumn sky Sunday night and sets Monday morning. The orbit of the full moon will be closer than it’s been to Earth since 1948. It rises in the eastern sky Sunday around…
A sailboat from Canada ran aground near Brigantine Friday night, and the United States Coast Guard made the rescue. The boat was near Black Point when it went outside the navigation channel and ran aground. There was an extremely low tide due to the moon and wind. A State Police chopper saw the boat and…
One person was killed, four injured when a a car left Ocean Heights Avenue in Hamilton Township and struck a tree on Saturday morning. Police say the accident occurred shortly before 7am. There were five adult occupants of the car, and one identified occupant was pronounced dead at the scene. The investigation into the accident…
Imagine volunteering to help out a guy who’s motorcycle broke down on the side of the road..and that guy was Bruce Springsteen. It happened in Freehold on Friday when a group of bikers from the Freehold American Legion stopped to help out a fellow biker, and it was the Boss. Springsteen hopped on the back…
Hundreds of residents and visitors turned out for Avalon’s Veterans Day ceremony held at Veterans Plaza Friday morning. Mayor Martin Pagliughi delivered an address and spoke of an Army veteran who went through 100 surgeries after a combat injury and volunteers his time today to teach Tai Chi to veterans. The ceremony also included a…
American Legion Post #331 in Stone Harbor held Veterans Day services on Friday. Mayor Suzanne Walters delivered remarks at the ceremony; she and Avalon Mayor Martin Pagliughi were both honored for contributing to a recent beautification effort at the Post. The ceremony included “Taps” and a rifle salute.
Two bills crafted to help veterans get the transportation they need to get to Veterans Affairs hospitals have passed a committee and are now headed to the full Assembly for a vote. One bill provides $500,000 in state funding to counties and municipalities for transportation services for vets to get to a VA hospital. The second bill…
On Thursday Vineland City Clerk Keith Petrosky declared a clear winner in the race for mayor of Vineland. Petrosky said that the 530 provisional ballots that have not yet been counted would not be enough to keep Fanucci from winning a majority of all the votes cast. Current Mayor Ruben Bermudez received less than 20…
Veterans Day celebrations are planned in many communities throughout Cape May County on Friday, most beginning at 11 a.m. The earliest ceremony will occur in North Wildwood at 10 a.m. at their Veterans Monument and Spruce and New York Avenues. Towns holding their ceremonies at 11 a.m. include Avalon, Cape May, Wildwood, Sea Isle City,…