Dr. Nancy Hudanich is the new president of the Avalon Borough Council. Council reorganized Friday afternoon and Hudanich was unanimously selected as president; John McCorristin is the new vice president of Council. Hudanich also serves as the superintendent of the Cape May County Technical School District.
The Local 54 Unite-HERE union was able to avoid a strike at four out of five casinos in Atlantic City this weekend. Only the Trump Taj Mahal could not reach a deal with workers, who were called away from their jobs by the union at 6 a.m. Friday and onto the picket lines. About 1,000…
Construction and improvements continue at Rotary Park in Cape May, just off the Washington Street Mall. This week a flagpole, pedestal and fountain were added to the park reconstruction, which is funded by the Fund for Cape May. A Grand Opening celebration is tentatively scheduled for the end of July. The 11 Rotary Bandstand concerts currently scheduled…
New Jersey lawmakers approved a bill to allow cities across the state to participate in needle exchange programs. A pilot sterile syringe program was launched in November of 2007 in Atlantic City, to help decrease the spread of injection-related diseases, such as HIV and AIDS. Funding for the statewide program was included in the new state…
New Jersey has a new budget, but still no funding for transportation projects. Governor Christie signed the $34.5 billion budget on Thursday night. Democrats and republicans largely agreed on the components on the spending plan; New Jersey was obligated to have a new budget in place by Friday morning.
Shut ’em down. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has shut down all transportation projects throughout the State of New Jersey funded by the State’s Transportation Trust Fund. Christie issued the executive order after the Senate failed to approve an increase in the gasoline tax that would have funded these projects. The Fund lost its authority…
On Thursdsay the state Senate approved a bill that would require the New Jersey Turnpike Authority to hold meetings in South Jersey, rather than in Woodbridge, Middlesex County. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Jeff Van Drew, requires at least two monthly meetings of the authority to be held in Atlantic, Cape May or Ocean Counties,…
Two teenagers were arrested on Thursday for stealing a woman’s bag on the Atlantic City beach. Police said 18 year-old Kaleef Ardis and a 17 year-old teen from Atlantic City grabbed the woman’s bag after she went into the water. The two suspects were arrested and charged with theft and possession of marijuana. They were…
The New Jersey Democrat-led Senate met on Thursday and decided not to vote on the Assembly’s plan to raise the gasoline tax by 23 cents per gallon while cutting the sales tax by one per cent. Senate President Stave Sweeney said there was not enough support for the plan he claims would cost nearly $2…
After being unable to work out a deal before Friday, Atlantic City casino workers will go on strike at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino. Local 54 of Unite-HERE is sending about 1,000 of their union members to the picket lines at the start of the July 4th weekend without a new contract. The union was…