Cape May County teen killed in motorcycle crash with trash truck
LOWER TOWNSHIP — A 17-year-old Villas boy was killed Jan. 14 when his motorcycle collided with a Lower Township trash truck. Cape May County Prosecutor Jeffrey H. Sutherland and Chief Kevin Lewis of the Lower Township Police Department announced an investigation into the accident. According to authorities, the Lower Township Police Department responded to a […]
MLK Day of Service: Morning of a thousand sandwiches
Student’s project is to help feed people in need in Cape May, Atlantic counties OCEAN CITY — About 50 volunteers, many of them high school students, huddled around tables at Ocean City VFW Post 6650, furiously making sandwiches on a chilly Monday morning to mark the Dr. Martin Luther King Day of Service. According to […]
Ocean City basketball coach John Bruno earns his 500th victory
Credits players who put team first and his family’s support OCEAN CITY — John Bruno hasn’t been handed a host of Division I college recruits to pad his rosters over the past 36 years coaching Ocean City High School basketball. Instead he has been blessed with “good kids” with a team-first mentality that he credits for […]
Middle Township teacher charged with sexual assault
CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE — Laura Caron, 34, of Cape May Court House, a fifth-grade teacher at Middle Township Elementary School, has been charged with aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child. The charges stem from an investigation alleging that between 2016 and 2020, Caron engaged in an inappropriate sexual […]
Mayor Corson sees challenges ahead in Upper Township
Names falling state aid, Beesleys Point project and Strathmere erosion PETERSBURG — Mayor Curtis T. Corson grabbed the gavel and welcomed three new members to Township Committee on Jan. 3 having already set his sights on the future. While Corson has a long history of serving on the committee, it was what lies ahead that […]
Somers Point Beach Concert Series controversy over contract
Somers Point Council seeks proposals for popular series; critics cry foul SOMERS POINT — City Council is putting not only its popular beach concerts in jeopardy but also Somers Point’s history and legacy of supporting live music at the shore. That’s what detractors said Jan. 9 when the governing body, in a split vote, approved […]
Legislators want south Jersey focus in Trenton
Assemblymen McClellan, Simonsen up for re-election along with new governor in November TRENTON — New Jersey’s First Legislative District representatives have southern New Jersey’s well-being on their minds as 2025 gets rolling. Republicans state Sen. Michael Testa and Assemblymen Antwan McClellan and Erik Simonsen oversee District 1, which consists of all of Cape May and […]
Upper Township Zoning Board clears way for Route 9 garden center
PETERSBURG — Plans are in the works for a garden center at 442-444 Route 9 South in Marmora on a property with two homes. The Zoning Board on Jan. 9 granted an Ocean View man preliminary and final site plan approval and a use variance to allow construction of a 4,900-square-foot office/retail building, a 10,080-square-foot […]
Somers Point hires two police officers
SOMERS POINT — The city hired two new police officers to join the Somers Point Police Department pending graduation from the Atlantic County Police Academy. City Council adopted two resolutions confirming the hiring of Anthony Capasso V and Michael Desrosiers Jr. as provisional officers effective Jan. 17. Mayor Dennis Tapp said he is scheduled to […]
MLK ceremony Saturday in Ocean City
OCEAN CITY – Ocean City will celebrate the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Saturday, Jan. 18 starting at noon at the Ocean City Tabernacle. The event brings the community together to remember the Rev. Dr. King through words, song and dance. The 2025 event had originally been scheduled […]