The good news was a winning Powerball ticket was sold in New Jersey. The bad news is that unless you bought your ticket in Monmouth County, you didn’t win the grand prize. Lottery officials announced that a ticket worth $70 million was sold at the Little Silver Family Pharmacy. To this point, no one knows…
A stadium that was allowed to decay is going to get new life. Atlantic City officials have voted to approve at $1.2 million bond to repair Sandcastle Stadium and will also allow work to be done at Bader Field. The stadium has been in consideration for another minor league baseball team to move into the…
It was a day many in law enforcement looked forward to. A 20-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison for killing a Lakewood Police officer. Jahmell Crockam was given the sentence for the Jan, 2011 incident. Crockam shot and killed Christopher Matlosz. The judge also denied Crockam the possibility for parole. Matlosz was on…
Unemployment numbers didn’t move again in New Jersey. The state released its latest figures on Thursday and it showed that the state added just nearly 9,000 jobs, but the percentage remained the same. Unemployment remains at nine percent, which is above the national average of 8.3 percent. The private sector has grown substantially, but the…
It was two days of freedom for a man who escaped from a Bridgeton Police station. Authorities say they have arrested James McNair in Millville. McNair was charged with armed robbery, aggravated assault and now has a resisting arrest charge. This time McNair was locked up safely in the Cumberland County Jail on $150,000 bail.…
In a split vote, Gov. Chris Christie didn’t get his way. A Senate committee rejected one of his Supreme Court nominees on Thursday. A 7-6 vote rejected Phillip Kwon inside of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Christie has maintained that both of his nominees are qualified. Kwon would have been the first Asian-American justice. Democrats were…
Town Hall meetings don’t always have to happen in person. U.S. Senator Robert Menendez is hosting a Twitter Town Hall meeting next week. This Twitter Town Hall comes at a time when average gas prices in New Jersey are over $3.60 a gallon and diesel fuel is over $4.00. The half-hour Twitter Town Hall will…
Funeral arrangements were announced for former Middle Township Police Chief William Hevener, who passed away Tuesday at the age of 65. Memorial services will be held this Saturday, March 24th, at Noon at the RadzietaFuneral Home, 9 Hand Avenue in Cape May Court House, with visitation starting at 10am. Hevener will be then be buried…
A financially troubled organization and it’s leader will learn their fate on April 2nd. That’s when the board of the South Jersey Economic Development District is scheduled to meet for a vote of confidence — or no confidence — in the abilities of their Executive Director Gordon Dahl, who has been in his job for 25 years. Last…
A first-hand account of history is alway better than learning from a book. Students at the Margaret Mace Elementary School in North Wildwood got a lesson this week from a survivor of the Nazi Holocaust in World War II. This week’s Cape May County Gazette features the stories Fred Spiegel shared with students as he…