The municipal clerk in Northfield will now also serve as the community’s Business Administrator. The Press of Atlantic City reports that Mary Canesi will now serve the community in two different capacities. Northfield will now essentially have both major jobs filled with only spending an additional $25,000.
A principal at an Atlantic City school has been indicted on theft charges. 41 year old Lakecia Hyman is charged with stealing more than $10,000 from fundraising accounts at the Uptown Complex School. Hyman was suspended from her job with pay back in February, 2014. She could face between five and ten years in prison,…
Now that the latest republican presidential debate is over, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is hitting the road to New Hampshire. Christie will be taking a four day bus tour through the critical election state over the weekend and calls his tour “Telling it Like it Is”. Christie is polling second behind Donald Trump in…
Family members say there is no doubt in their mind that the body of a female found in a vacant home on Vermont Avenue in Rio Grande is that of Nicole Angstadt. Cape May County Prosecutor Robert Taylor would not divulge many details about the investigation into the discovery of a body at the property.…
A retired Ocean City police officer says a beer he drank at a restaurant at Harrah’s Casino nearly killed him. Richard Washart went before the media on Tuesday and stated that one beer he had at McCormick and Schmick’s Restaurant at the casino made him deathly ill and nearly cost him his life. Washart ingested…
A former beach tag supervisor in Ocean City will have his day in court on Friday. Charles Cusack admitted that he had sexual relations with an underage employee and Cusack will receive his sentence at the end of the week. Cusack was arrested three years ago; he used to work as a police officer in…
Good news, New Jersey doled out $2.6 million in Homestead Rebate funding to residents over the past year and a half. The bad news? All of those people are dead. Audits released by the State on Tuesday show millions of dollars in benefits were erroneously issued to people who are dead. The audit also shows…
$17 million of your toll booth contributions are going to buy road salt for the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. The authority announced that it bought the road salt this month which will 81,000 tons to the 157,000 ton stockpile of salt already on hand. Last year, the authority spent over $46 million to put salt…
Roy Wright is leaving Lower Cape May Regional High School to become the athletic director at Burlington City High School. Brian Cunniff of the Gazette Leader reports that Wright is slated to begin his new position in Burlington sometime in mid-February. Wright is the former girls basketball head coach at Lower Cape May and has…
Local leaders are fighting hard against another increase in the room tax. The Press of Atlantic City reports that another one percent tax charged by the State is on the table in the legislature, and is being opposed by Freeholder Director Gerald Thornton and tourism leaders. Thornton says Cape May County has to protect a…