North Wildwood’s City Council will meet Tuesday afternoon. Council is expected to take action on ordinances that regulate beach rules, and set mercantile fees. Council will also discuss the annual Best Practices Inventory report for the State and may exercise a one year option of its solid waste contract with Choice Environmental Services. The meeting…
Atlantic City Electric will make a presentation during the Stone Harbor Council meeting on Tuesday. The utility plans on adding additional feeders in Avalon and Stone Harbor to provide more reliable electrical service in the community. Some new utility poles will be coming to the island for distribution; they will be about ten feet taller…
Avalon Elementary School children learned about dune grass, and then planted it on Monday. Students were engaged by the Avalon Environmental Commission with the benefits of a healthy dune grass system in dunes and then planted new dune grass stolons on the 32nd Street beach in Avalon. Avalon conducts a dune grass planting event each…
Middle Township Police announced they are looking into some social media accounts that are made for clowns to harass local students. Police say one of the Facebook accounts encourages people to come visit the ‘clown’ in wooded areas of Middle Township. Police are warning the public not to engage in the creepy clown craze which…
A 27 year old South Jersey woman has been arrested for stealing an EMT’s wallet at the scene of a fatal accident. Authorities have charged Brittany Carulli with stealing the wallet while she sat alone in an ambulance at an accident scene on Sunday. Her boyfriend had just been fatally struck by a passing car;…
The engineer on the New Jersey Transit train that crashed into a platform in Hoboken last week has no memory of the accident. Thomas Gallagher has told investigators he approached the platform at 10mph but does not remember the accident that injured more than 100 people and killed one woman. An even data recorder was…
A Newark-based group who opposes casino expansion to North Jersey began running new television and radio ads Monday against the proposal that will appear on the ballot in November. The group called Trenton’s Bad Bet, is running anti-casino expansion TV ads in New York City and Philadelphia, and radio ads in Trenton and Atlantic City. The…
Hundreds of people turned out on Sunday in Ocean City for the sixth annual HERO Walk fundraiser to honor the memory of John R. Elliot. The U.S. Naval Academy graduate was just 22 when he was killed by a drunk driver. His parents later started the HERO campaign to promote designated drivers and lobby for…
On Sunday morning Hammonton Police received a call about a man might be armed and was likely to harm himself inside his home. Police responded to the house on Passmore Avenue, shut down a one block perimeter, and tried to talk to the man via a police car public address system to no avail. The…
New Jersey native Martin Truex, Jr. won Sunday’s NASCAR Chase race at Dover International Speedway for his second victory in three races. The win was the fourth victory this season for Truex, who remains at the top of the standings for the Sprint Cup championship. Truex won his first career Cup race at Dover in…