The large drug busts continue. The Cape May County Prosecutor’s Office and Wildwood Police Department teamed up on a bust that saw 500 bags of heroin taken off the streets. The bust took place on the 200 block of East Garfield Avenue. The street value of the heroin was over $10,000. Authorities say they arrested…
A Woodbine man has been arrested for drug charges on Aug. 27. Avalon Police tell 987 The Coast that Calvin T. Rogers had 18 bags of marijuana and five bags of cocaine in his possession. Rogers was charged with Possession of Cocaine, Intent to Distribute Cocaine, Possession of Marijuana, Intent to Distribute Marijuana, and Possession…
The Grand opening of the Cape May County Observation Bee Hive, donated by the NJ Bee Keepers Association, is scheduled for this Friday at 11 a.m. The new exhibit will be housed at the Aviary at the Cape May County Zoo. The observation bee hive is designed to allow visitors to view the activities of…
The reforms to the public unions seems to be helping local towns. The Public Employment Relations Commission reports that since 2011 there has been an average of 1.86 percent increases on new contracts signed by police or firefighters, the lowest amount in the last two decades at least. The state has implemented a two percent…
Hearings on whether the United States should go into Syria will begin this week. U.S. Senator Robert Menendez is presiding over a hearing the Senate because he is the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. President Barack Obama made his case over the weekend, saying the country should have a focused and limited strike…
Less people think New Jersey is heading in the right direction, but they don’t seem to be taking it out on Gov. Chris Christie. A poll by Fairleigh Dickinson-PublicMind shows that Christie’s approval rating has remained basically unchanged since June at 58 percent, but there has been an eight percent drop in the direction of…
Lower Township will honor those who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001 with a sunset flag ceremony led by Marvin Hume. The ceremony is scheduled for Sept. 11 at 6 p.m. at Sunset Beach at the end of Sunset Boulevard in sight of the concrete ship in Lower Township. Hume, a World War II…
Officials in Upper Township are considering the installation of security cameras at their public works yard in Tuckahoe, to catch illegal dumpers. The Upper Township Gazette reports that there have been several cases of illegal dumping of construction debris and paint cans at the facility, designed for residential trash collection. The new security cameras would…
Former Lower Cape May Regional stand-out Matt Szczur will be featured on ESPN’s “E:60” show Tuesday night at 7 p.m. on ESPN2. The show will chronicle Szczur’s decision to donate peripheral blood cells to a young leukemia patient. Szczur plays lead off for the Tennessee Smokies of the Double-A Southern League, of the Chicago Cubs…
On Sunday night a 51 year-old Atlantic City police sergeant suffered a leg injury when his ATV crashed on the way to a call. Michael Mayer was patrolling the beach on an ATV when he was called for back-up to the Scores bar at Trump Taj Mahal at about 7:43 p.m. to assist with an…