• Cheap, pure, and deadly

    Heroin a growing concern in county

    CAPE MAY COUNTY – A generation ago, heroin was all but unheard of in Cape May County.

    Veteran officers say there were other illicit drugs sold throughout the Jersey Cape, but heroin, considered a scourge of urban areas, was rarely seen. During the 1970s, according to several sources, the heroin bought at the street level was usually less than 5 percent pure, the rest made up of anything the dealer had handy, from power to brick dust. Starting in the 1990s, the highly addictive narcotic began…

  • Police: 50 bags of heroin found in Lexus

    RIO GRANDE – Two men face charges after someone allegedly saw them dealing drugs out of a Lexus in the Wawa parking lot at about 10 p.m. May 16 and called the police.

    Police say they found 50 bags of heroin, drug paraphernalia and a small amount of marijuana in the car.

  • Police: two dead from overdoses over the weekend

    Officials say there were several drug overdoses in Cape May County over the weekend, including two fatalities.

    From May 17 until May 19, police in Wildwood and Lower Township investigated several overdoses, according to an announcement from Cape May County Prosecutor Robert L. Taylor, Wildwood Police Chief Steven Long and Lower Township Chief Brian Marker.

    A Wildwood teen and a 54-year-old woman from Rio Grande are dead, and officials believe drugs may be to blame.

  • Route 47 work to be finished next week

    MIDDLE TOWNSHIP — Night work to repair six miles of Route 47 should be completed next week, a spokesman from the state Department of Transportation said.

  • Relay for Life at Memorial Field

    Students organize second event against cancer

    CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE — Jen Hicks of Cape May Court House says that she will feel moved when she sees cancer survivors taking a lap around the track at Memorial Field on Friday night.

    They will be joined by caregivers and then everyone else, all in coming together to fight against cancer at the second annual Relay for Life in Cape May Court House

    “I just think that’s very cool to start it,” said Hicks, who is senior at Middle Township High School co-chairing the local event.

  • New staff, new programs at Wetlands

    MIDDLE TOWNSHIP — Visitors to The Wetlands Institute can build a solar car, sort shells and compare different kinds of fish.

    Things have become more hands on at the facility along Stone Harbor Boulevard in Middle Township.

Middle Township Gazette

Local teen accepted at West Point

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Last Updated on Tuesday, May 07, 2013 04:42 pm Written by Alex Davis Tuesday, May 07, 2013 06:36 pm

MIDDLE TOWNSHIP — The only family connection Josh Greenberg of Middle Township has to the military is two cousins serving in the U.S. Army.

Even so, it’s been his dream of attending the U.S. Military Academy since he was a child.

Read more: Local teen accepted at West Point

 

Taxes up in Middle

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Last Updated on Monday, May 06, 2013 09:23 pm Written by Staff Reports Monday, May 06, 2013 09:12 pm

MIDDLE TOWNSHIP — The average property owner will pay about $25 more in municipal taxes this year.

Middle Township Committee on Monday unanimously approved a $20.39 million budget.

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Middle police search for missing bike

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Last Updated on Tuesday, May 07, 2013 12:05 pm Written by Staff Reports Monday, May 06, 2013 11:41 am

Middle Township Police say a bicycle valued at $1,000 was stolen from Hale Bicycle on Mechanic Street in Cape May Court House on May 2.

Police say the bicycle is distinctive, having an orange frame, a black seat with a yellow design, blue handle bar grips and large silver spokes; the chain is yellow black and green. 

The bike was reported stolen May 3, according to police.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Middle Township Police Department at 465-8700.

 

Local firms plant ‘Trees for Boston’

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Written by Staff Reports Monday, May 06, 2013 06:00 am

From left, Philip Woodrow, Mckenna Gregory and Sawyer Lomax plant tree seedlings in honor of Boston. From left, Philip Woodrow, Mckenna Gregory and Sawyer Lomax plant tree seedlings in honor of Boston.

 CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE – Middle Township’s Earth Day and Arbor Day commemorations last week served to highlight the importance of planting trees for the future and honored the City of Boston after the bombing at the Boston Marathon.

Read more: Local firms plant ‘Trees for Boston’

   

Garden State Parkway night work

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Written by Alex Davis Monday, May 06, 2013 12:00 am

Night work continued April 25 on the Garden State Parkway as part of a project to replace three traffic lights at Crest Haven Road, Stone Harbor Boulevard and Shell Bay Avenue with overpasses. The work is expected to be completed in 2015. Night work continued April 25 on the Garden State Parkway as part of a project to replace three traffic lights at Crest Haven Road, Stone Harbor Boulevard and Shell Bay Avenue with overpasses. The work is expected to be completed in 2015.

Night work continued April 25 on the Garden State Parkway as part of a project to replace three traffic lights at Crest Haven Road, Stone Harbor Boulevard and Shell Bay Avenue with overpasses. The work is expected to be completed in 2015.

 

Realtors join Long & Foster’s

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Last Updated on Tuesday, May 07, 2013 01:10 pm Written by Staff Reports Monday, May 06, 2013 12:00 am

 AVALON – Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc. has announced the affiliation of Marian King-Smith and David Read as a sales associates in its Avalon office.

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Mavromates named manager of Long & Foster Avalon office

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Michael T. Mavromates Michael T. Mavromates

 AVALON – Michael T. Mavromates has been named manager of Long & Foster Real Estate’s Avalon office.

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Executive chef named at The Reeds at Shelter Haven

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Written by Staff Reports Monday, May 06, 2013 12:00 am

David O. Utley David O. Utley

STONE HARBOR – The Reeds at Shelter Haven, preparing for its grand opening this summer in Stone Harbor, has named David O. Utley as their executive chef.

Utley will oversee all culinary operations for the many dining and catering options at The Reeds at Shelter Haven. He will develop the menus for each of these venues, craft the recipes for each menu item, and procure all product needed for those recipes.

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