A resignation this week on the Upper Township School Board. James Arsenault submitted his resignation on Tuesday; Arsenault serves the County of Cape May as County Counsel. The Board plans to interview potential candidates to replace Arsenault during at meeting on March 7th.
A new housing complex in Ocean City may receive final approvals during a meeting on Wednesday night. The Ocean City Planning Board is scheduled to meet on Wednesday evening and again discuss the Soleil, a six-story hotel and condo project slated to be constructed near the boardwalk between 10th and 11th streets. Discussion on the…
Lower Township Police arrested a local man who went inside the bathroom of a local business with illegal drugs in his possession. Police were called Sunday afternoon to a commercial business on Bayshore Road in the Villas where 26 year old Joseph Kelly loitered before going into the bathroom for a long period of time.…
Middle Township Police have charged two local men following a drug transaction in the parking lot of the Petsmart pet store in Rio Grande on Monday. Police arrested Thomas McMullen and Juan Rodriguez-Roman on charges they exchanged eight packets of heroin during the drug deal. An investigation revealed that Rodriguez-Roman had 84 packets of drugs…
A North Jersey attorney accused of giving financial breaks to female clients in return for sexual favors apparently killed himself on Tuesday. Richard Schubach did business for the Borough of Raritan and was found inside his car dead of a single gunshot wound. Police say Schubach was found this morning with a single gunshot wound…
The Christie administration is seizing a section of beachfront that sits right next to Governor Christie’s brother’s home in Point Pleasant. Todd Christie says he agrees with the State taking the beach in order to build protective dunes for the community. Many neighbors in that community are fighting the plan, saying protective dunes are not…
A 21-year old Atlantic County man has been arrested and charged with the murder of a two year old boy in North Carolina. Authorities have announced the arrest of Jagger Jost who was apprehended Monday afternoon in Atlantic City. Jost is charged with killing a two year old boy he fathered with his girlfriend; she…
Once again some residents of South Jersey shore communities reported shaking houses and rattling windows early Monday afternoon. The Press of Atlantic City reports that tremors were felt in Egg Harbor Township, Brigantine and Barnegat around 1:45 p.m. on Monday. According to the report, military jets from Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland were flying over…
A man tried to steal $271.82 in seafood without paying for it. The Egg Harbor Township Police Department announced that Kevin Boyle was taken into custody this past weekend in reference to shoplifting at the Shoprite there. He was also charged in similar incidents of stealing seafood from the same store on Jan. 17th and…
Taxpayers got some good news at Monday night’s Lower Township Council meeting. The 2016 budget was presented with a zero percent tax increase. Councilman Tom Conrad told Coastal Broadcasting that all township department heads worked together with the treasurer and township manager to stabilize the tax rate while actually increasing services for the residents. Conrad…