Ocean City will conduct some street paving work this week. Paving is expected to occur on both 11th and 16th streets, along with some paving in the area of a water project at Pleasure Avenue in the north end of town. Mayor Jay Gillian also announced that a final beach fill project on the south…
A property revaluation may be coming to Stone Harbor. Council is expected to consider an emergency resolution at its meeting on Tuesday that would spend $250,000 to conduct a property reveal. The funding is expected to be established via an emergency appropriation.
Avalon will be resurfacing one of its very popular tennis court complexes in advance of the summer season. Avalon has contracted with American Tennis Courts to resurface the hard courts located at 8th Street. The new courts will be painted with the popular U.S. Open blue and green. The courts will be closed for about…
A Woodbine man with a criminal record has pleaded guilty to charges that he fired a gun outside of a party two years ago. 31 year old Jose Lopez admitted in court to the first degree offense. The shooting took place outside of a home in the 600 block of Washington Avenue. Two State Troopers…
The bridge that connects Stone Harbor to North Wildwood will be closed Sunday morning. The Great Channel Bridge is scheduled to be closed to vehicular traffic from 7:30am until Noon to accommodate the Wild Half Marathon. Motorists are advised to take an alternate route.
The Orlando Magic will speak with Wildwood Crest native Frank Vogel about their vacant head coaching position. The Orlando Sentinel reports that the interview will come soon. Vogel was dismissed from his head coaching job with the Indiana Pacers after he led them to another playoff berth. Three other teams–the Rockets, the Knicks, and the…
The United States Coast Guard rescued two people from their sailboat that was taking on water in the Delaware Bay. The incident occurred on Thursday in Fortescue and required a response from the Coast Guard station in Fortescue, and from Cape May. The sailboat is 40 feet long and had two occupants on board; neither…
The Ocean City Council has tabled a an ordinance that would have revoked the conditional use qualification to build coastal cottages in the drive-in business zone. Council held a long public hearing on the issue during its meeting last week and finally tabled the ordinance on a 5-1 vote. Former Councilman John Flood testified during…
Cape May County will kick off its ocean water quality testing program on the last day of this month. The county’s Health Department announced that the programs will run through Labor Day weekend. 61 ocean and one back bay recreational area will be tested during the monitoring program. The water quality will be tested weekly.
Firefighters responded to a structure fire at a unit in the 100 block of Seaview court in North Wildwood Thursday night. Fire officials found some smoke coming from a front porch when they arrived. It took about a half hour to get the blaze under control; there were no injuries, nor any major damage to…