$10.9M bond for airport terminal, public safety, pool
OCEAN CITY — Ocean City is bonding $10.9 million to build a new facility at the municipal airport, rehabilitate and rebuild the Public Safety Building and repair and upgrade the pool at the Aquatic and Fitness Center. City Council unanimously approved the bond on first reading at the Sept. 14 meeting. It is expected to […]
FIT push nets payout savings
Citizens group fought severance payout for former superintendent OCEAN CITY – Local citizens group Fairness In Taxes (FIT) can often leave local government and school officials fit to be tied. The group questions spending and contracts and files scores of Open Public Records Act (OPRA) requests to get information generally not proffered by those officials. […]
Atlantic County Candidates for state, local office
Multiple area residents are running for seats on state, county and local governing bodies in the election Nov. 7. State Legislature Atlantic County Commissioner Caren Fitzpatrick, a Democrat from Linwood, is challenging state Sen. Vince Polistina of Egg Harbor Township. Fitzpatrick was first elected to the board in 2017 and won a second term in […]
Upper Township schools get back to business
PETERSBURG — “It’s really nice see everyone back in the building,” Superintendent Allison Pessolano told the Board of Education on Sept. 18. While the new school chief officially began working in July, she recently had her first day with the entire staff and student body in the schools. “We had a really successful start to […]
Marmora firefighters respond to GSP crash
UPPER TOWNSHIP – A car rolled over and went through the guardrail at mile marker 23.1 southbound on the Garden State Parkway around 4:30 p.m. Thursday, according to the Marmora Volunteer Fire Department. The company was dispatched along with the Seaville Fire and Rescue, Tuckahoe Volunteer Fire Company and Upper Township Division of EMS. Initial […]
Somers Point celebrates Good Old Days
SOMERS POINT — Families and friends crowded into John F. Kennedy Memorial Park on Sept. 9 to take in the live music, children’s activities, food and drinks, classic cars, an art show and sale, civic organization displays and craft vendors during the Good Old Days festival. Walking down Broadway toward the beautiful bayfront park, Joe […]
Powerful hurricanes have struck the county
CAPE MAY — While all eyes are on Hurricane Lee, some locals will tell you Cape May County avoids direct hits from severe hurricanes. Unfortunately, history proves them wrong. No one is alive today to recall it, but Cape May experienced a Category 4 hurricane in 1821. Old newspapers and military logs carry accounts of […]
Upper Township Committee continues look at short-term rentals
PETERSBURG — Upper Township Committee has appointed an ad hoc subcommittee to investigate the pros and cons of short-term rentals and report back on its findings. An ordinance introduced last spring met with a lot of opposition, and was tabled for more work. Township Committee put the brakes on the new rental housing regulations April […]
Upper Township Committee, school board elections
Corson faces familiar foe UPPER TOWNSHIP — Incumbent Curtis Corson is facing a challenge for his seat on Township Committee for the second time from independent Jon Grubb in the election Nov. 7. They last faced off in 2017, when Corson defeated Democrat Kiesha Bond and Grubb for a three-year term. Corson took 2,191 votes […]
70-year prison term for shooting death of boy
MAYS LANDING – Alvin Wyatt, 35, of Atlantic City, NJ, was sentenced Monday to an aggregate term of 70 years in state prison for shooting into a crowd at a Pleasantville football game, killing a 10-year-old boy and injuring two others. The Honorable Donna M. Taylor, J.S.C., sentenced him to the term where he must […]