The Environmental Protection Agency has recommended that 31 Vineland residents who were evacuated from their homes last week, should not return for another two weeks. That’s how long it will take to complete the removal of 12,000 pounds of ammonia from a faulty refrigeration system at South Jersey Ice and Cold Storage. Twenty-five of the…
Casino union workers of Atlantic City’s Unite Here Local 54 have approved more than $44 million worth of new contracts with three casinos. The labor dispute is now over at Caesars, Ballys and Harrahs, with a contract vote scheduled for Thursday by union members at the Tropicana. Nearly 1,000 workers at the Taj Mahal Casino…
Some residents of Strathmere have told the Upper Township Committee that they are sick of jitneys running on many streets in their community. The Upper Township Gazette reports that residents told the Committee that restaurants started offering jitney service several years ago, and now jitneys are running on side streets as late as 4:00am. Upper…
Major work is coming to the Roosevelt Boulevard Bridge in Ocean City. The project will replace decking on the bridge which will be reduced to one lane of traffic during the next two off seasons. The work is expected to begin after Columbus Day weekend in 2016 and wrap up before Memorial Day weekend, 2018.
It looks like it will be Ed Mahaney versus Chuck Lear for the mayor’s post in Cape May this November. Lear submitted his nominating petition on Tuesday to run against the incumbent Mahaney. Also submitting a petition was Patricia Hendricks who will run for a Council seat currently occupied by Terri Swain.
Tragedy along Route 47 in Maurice River Township. State Police say a 75 year old woman from that community was struck and killed by a pickup truck last Thursday afternoon along Route 47. Police say Nancy Bailey was struck by a truck near milepost 25.8. The driver of the truck pulled over immediately. No charges…
August 4th..that’s when the public will have two opportunities to tell Verizon why they are upset with landline phone service. Both public meetings will be held at the Estell Manor Elementary School on that day. Cumberland County residents have been very vocal about the lack of reliable landline phone service by Verizon. The Board of…
Senate President Steve Sweeney and Governor Christie met behind closed doors on Tuesday to discuss alternatives to a gas tax plan that would fund the Transportation Trust Fund. A spokesman for Christie says a new proposal was presented by Sweeney and is currently under review. All non-essential road projects in the State have been halted…
A 63 year-old man from Burlington County was killed Tuesday morning when his SUV overturned onto the median of the Atlantic City Expressway. State Police identified the victim as Jan Dragum, of Marlton, who was pronounced dead at the scene. Dragum was driving a Jeep Cherokee westbound on the expressway when for unknown reasons, the…
Striking casino workers from the Unite Here Local 54 union will be taking their protest to New York City on Wednesday. The Press of Atlantic City reports that a protest has been scheduled for Wednesday morning outside Carl Icahn’s Manhattan office, the current owner of the Trump Taj Mahal, where the union is on strike.…