Dancing shoes

Last Updated on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 05:41 pm Written by Jen Marra Wednesday, April 24, 2013 03:53 pm

CAPE MAY - The Van Wickle Dutch Dancers perform Klompen dancing, Dutch folk dancing performed in wooden shoes, during Captain Mey Day-A Celebration of our Dutch Heritage presented by the Washington Street Mall of Cape May Saturday, April 20.

Police: Drunk driver impacts propane tank

Last Updated on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 05:42 pm Written by Staff Reports Wednesday, April 24, 2013 03:50 pm

LOWER TOWNSHIP – Police said a man drove his vehicle into the backyard of a home on West New York Avenue early Saturday, April 20 and struck a 1,000 gallon propane tank.

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Police investigating accident on Seashore Road

Last Updated on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 05:42 pm Written by Staff Reports Wednesday, April 24, 2013 03:49 pm

ERMA – Lower Township police are investigating a motor vehicle accident at 530 Seashore Road after a vehicle struck a house.

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Chalfonte Hotel exhibit opens April 26

Written by Staff Reports Wednesday, April 24, 2013 10:00 am

CAPE MAY - Learn about the historic Chalfonte Hotel and Cape May's Civil War hero Henry Sawyer in the Carriage House Gallery exhibit, "Cape May's Chalfonte Hotel: A Living National Landmark," guest-curated by author Karen Fox and sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts & Humanities (MAC), which opens April 26.

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Peter Nero and the Philly Pops return to Convention Hall

Written by Staff Reports Tuesday, April 23, 2013 05:17 pm

Peter Nero will lead the Philly Pops at Convention Hall on May 25.

CAPE MAY – Peter Nero and the Philly Pops will hold their second annual concert at Cape May Convention Hall at 8 p.m. on Saturday, May 25.

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Boatbuilding project teaches students about maritime heritage

Written by Mary Linehan Tuesday, April 23, 2013 12:16 pm

LOWER TOWNSHIP – The Cape May Maritime Museum and Education Center is undertaking a boatbuilding project with local high school students to teach them about Lower Township’s maritime heritage.

“One of the positives of the community here is the quality and dedication of the educators that we have here,” said center president Kevin Maloney. “In conjunction with local educators, we are starting a youth boatbuilding outreach program. In building these beautiful skiffs, we will have young people focused in a positive way on our maritime heritage here and a variety of academic skills.”

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Bizarre History of Cape May > Assemblyman was cast out for absences, but voters cast him back in

Written by Jacob Schaad Jr. Tuesday, April 23, 2013 12:10 pm

Along with the Hands, the Hughes and the Leamings who made an early impact on the history of Cape Island there was another family of father, son and grandson whose lives and careers were linked for three centuries from colonial days until after the Revolutionary War.

They were the Spicer family and all three were named Jacob. Written history has treated them kindly, although the son, Jacob the second, was to complain in his 39-page will of “the unjust treatment by the populace” and that he was “vilely defamed and grossly abused on account of the natural privileges of which he claimed to be entirely ignorant.” What those abuses were has not been expounded.

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New moon, full moon events planned

Written by Staff Reports Tuesday, April 23, 2013 12:09 pm

CAPE MAY - The Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts & Humanities (MAC) is offering two tours that take full advantage of bright, moonlit nights - the Lighthouse Full Moon Climb and the Full Moon Ghost Hunt with Ghost-One - and a new tour in 2013 that takes place during the dark of the new moon - the Lighthouse New Moon Climb and Trolley Tour.

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