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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.