Middle Township Police Department received several 911 calls today reporting a motorcycle crash on State Highway 47 at New York Avenue. Upon arrival of Officer’s it was reported by several witnesses that the motorcyclist who was traveling North on State Highway 47, crashed into a Chevy Tahoe that was making a left turn onto New…
An arrest was made in the Del Haven murder. Gene Marr was caught in Florida. The Cape May County Prosecutor’s Office and the Middle Township Police announced that Marr was arrested in Volusia County, Fl, and he is going to extradited to Cape May County from the Volusia County Correctional Center. Ronald Denny Sr. was…
New assessments have been released in Cumberland County. The Daily Journal reports that Millville saw a nearly eight cent increase in county taxes, but Vineland went down over eight cents. The overall increase was 1.4-cents this year, but new assessments can change how much individual towns pay.
A job has been posted by Atlantic City government to hire an aid for council members. The state previously told the city not to hire any additional council aid positions. Nearly $500,000 is being spent on the 11 aides for the city. The AP reports that the position was listed by the Personnel Department.
Teachers in New Jersey received one of the lowest increases in the last half century. New data says that new contracts that were negotiated this year provided teachers with a slightly bigger than two percent raise. The numbers decrease the closer the contract was finalized closer to the end of the school year. The numbers…
The Department of Environmental Protection plans to take more water samples today as part of an investigation into the massive die-off of menhaden in Delaware Bay. In addition, fish tissue samples will be collected and sent to a laboratory for analysis. “Right now we do not have any indication that pollution or a toxic algae…
The first five years for Atlantic Cape Community College have been good ones. High ranking school officials made a presentation to the Cape May County Freeholders on Tuesday. They showed an increase in enrollment for the first five years at the Cape May County campus. The data also showed that average age of the students…
A meeting was held with two local state representatives and the Lt. Gov Kim Guadagno. State Senator Jeff Van Drew and Assemblyman Matt Milam met with the then Acting Governor, to discuss a number of items, including tourism. Milam said that the communications between this administration and the previous one shows a lightyear difference. Guadagno…
U.S. Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) announced that unemployed New Jersey workers will be eligible for a total of $112,200,638 in emergency assistance to help prevent foreclosures. The federal Hardest Hit Fund, which makes funds available for programs to help homeowners struggling to make their mortgage payments due to unemployment, is being…
An overnight fire forced three people is escape their home in Cape May Court House. The website for the Cape May County Herald reports that the blaze took place Poplar Street. Two adults and a child safely escaped the house. Multiple fire companies from Dennis, Middle, Lower, and Stone Harbor were on scene, according to the report.