The Morey Organization has postponed the first birthday celebration of their themed amusement ride “KONG” for one week, due to the weather forecast for Thursday. The new version of the 1970’s ride opened last summer. The first birthday party will now take place next Thursday, June 30th from 1-3 pm on Surfside Pier. During the…
Cape May County Fare Free Transportation has suspended two of it’s routes for Wednesday, due to yesterday’s severe weather event. The Villas to North Cape May and the West Cape May to North Cape May Acme routes are both suspended for Wednesday.
A 22 year-old Pleasantville man out of jail just four days was captured after he led police on a 20-minute chase Monday morning. Brandon Figaro was arrested after taking a truck from the Atlantic City Municipal Utilities Authority, and tried to elude police until the truck came to a stop at Delilah Road and Main Street…
Approximately 10,000 customers of Atlantic City Electric are still without power as of Wednesday morning at 8:15am. Atlantic City Electric’s power outage map shows most of the outages remain in the southern portion of Cape May county including greater Cape May, Lower Township, and Middle Township. Severe thunderstorms knocked out power to tens of thousands…
A 40 year-old Stafford Township police dispatcher and her husband were busted for selling drugs along with 18 others by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office. Officials say dispatcher Donna Frate was selling oxycodone while on her break at the Police Department. Stafford Township officials said Frate had been terminated from her $60,000 job earlier this month and…
On Tuesday the president of New Jersey’s AFL-CIO said his group will support a possible strike by casino union workers on July 1st. Charles Wowkanech says he hopes a strike will be averted, but will support the Unite Here Local 54 if they go pout on strike at five casinos in Atlantic City next Friday. Last…
Thousands of customers are still without electrical power in Cape May County on Wednesday morning after crews from Atlantic City Electric worked through the night. Power to some areas may not be restored until Thursday, as crews continue to cleanup from a powerful storm that blew through the area around 4 p.m. Tuesday. The Wildwood…
There were plenty of wind related damages and electrical outages reported throughout Cape May County from Tuesday’s storms but no injuries. The Wildwood Leader reports that as of Tuesday evening the county office of emergency management had no reported injuries from the storm, but plenty of damage. In North Wildwood a house under construction on…
More than two dozen homes were damaged, and power outages in some areas are expected to linger through Wednesday morning following a powerful thunderstorm that tore through Cape May County Tuesday afternoon. The National Weather Service had posted a tornado warning for the southern part of the county which was hardest hit during the storm…
The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that an employer cannot fire an employee because he or she is separated or getting a divorce. The case stemmed from Robert Smith, who was fired as Director of Operations for the Millville Rescue Squad. Smith was preparing to divorce his wife after he began an affair with a…