Two people have been charged in heroin overdose cases in Cape May County. The Prosecutor’s office and Middle Township Police announced the arrest of David Franchetta Jr. and Brian Schubert from June 12 incidents. Heroin overdoses has become very problematic in Cape May County. Authorities have been trying to battle it’s use. Prosecutor Robert Taylor…
Things are looking good for Gov. Christ Christie’s reelection bid. Christie leads his Democratic opponent State Senator Barbara Buono by 40 percentage points, according to a poll conducted by the Stockton Polling Institute. Christie took home 64 percent of the potential vote. The poll says that state residents were very pleased with his handling of…
Stone Harbor’s Borough Council meets on Tuesday and is expected to address a new ordinance that would address the problem of people parking vehicles for days at a time in unmetered municipal parking lots. Council will consider a new ordinance that will prohibit any vehicle to be parked in these lots between the hours of…
Ocean City Councilman Scott Ping admitted that he was drunk when he was nailed for a DUI back in March. Ping was in court Friday and pleaded guilty to one count of drunk driving. Ping blew a .15 reading after he crashed his vehicle in a marsh off Ocean Drive. Ping is still in a…
Common sense may prevail when the new FEMA flood maps are released to the public Monday morning. FEMA officials held telephone conference calls with elected officials in many shore towns on Friday and they learned that the controversial “V” zones..or ‘velocity’ zones..will largely disappear from many flood maps. The so-called “V” zones caused much worry…
Friday was graduation night for 77 seniors at Wildwood High School. The school held its ceremony inside the high school auditorium. Danielle Aydelotte was the valedictorian for this year’s graduating class.
Friday was graduation day for 249 seniors at Lower Cape May Regional High School. Ceremonies were held outside at Steven Steger Filed right after a thunderstorm rolled through the region. Victoria Mann delivered the address to the student body as valedictorian, as did salutatorian Michael Foster.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie had a chance to speak with former president Bill Clinton about Hurricane Sandy. Christie attended the Clinton Global Initiative, a three day conference in Chicago that concluded on Friday. Clinton acknowledged that Christie deserved a lot of praise for the way he managed the superstorm and its impact on New…
Health experts believe West Nile Virus may be on the rise in New Jersey courtesy of Hurricane Sandy. A report in the Star Ledger suggests that health experts are worried about a large increase in mosquitos this year due to water that was left in debris left behind by the hurricane last October. State officials…
U.S. Senator Robert Menendez announced that new FEMA flood zone maps would be released on Monday for Atlantic, Monmouth, Hudson and Ocean Counties. They will be considered “working maps” from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and will reflect changes in the original high-risk velocity, or V Zones, as outlined in previous maps. Local officials will…