• Wildwood commissioners: Put a shirt on and pull your pants up
    Wildwood Leader

    WILDWOOD- The city is looking to clean up the look of the boardwalk and create a more “family friendly” atmosphere- by having visitors clean up their outfits.

    At Wednesday’s commissioners meeting, the administration introduced an ordinance requiring shirts and shoes to be worn on the boardwalk, and banned pants or skirts worn low off the waist.

    “I do believe the barometer of our community is based on the boardwalk,” Mayor Ernie Troiano said.

  • Yecco to retire from Crest
    Wildwood Leader

     WILDWOOD CREST- After working in city hall for 27 years, Borough Clerk and Administrator Kevin Yecco announced his retirement this week.

    “I feel that the time is right,” Yecco said Monday. “It has been an outstanding career.”

  • Wildwood chooses marbles champions
    Wildwood Leader

     Photo by Christie Rotondo/ Portalatin watches his shot during the boys finals. After seven games of ringer, he won the chance to represent the school for the first time in the National Marbles Tournament.
    Schools to represent island in national competition

    WILDWOOD- This year, local Wildwood kids will be competing for all…

  • Cheap, pure, and deadly
    Regional

    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 powder to brick dust. Starting in the 1990s, the highly addictive narcotic began…

  • County prosecutor has cameras on Ocean City, Wildwood ’walks
    Ocean City Gazette

    Several people enjoy a sunny spring day on the Ocean City boardwalk this week. The county prosecutor’s office is keeping an eye on the boardwalks in Ocean City and Wildwood, officials announced on Friday.

    Video cameras are installed on both boardwalks, with federal grant money from the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness funding the purchase.

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Synagogue welcomes community to event

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Written by Staff Reports Tuesday, April 09, 2013 01:00 am

WILDWOOD-Beth Judah Temple is hosting a “Barbecue and Learn” 12:20 p.m. April 28.

The topic is “the mystical telling of Omer." Kosher hotdogs, veggie dogs, potato salad, chips and the Rabbi's homemade chili will be served.

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Zombie Mud Run coming to Wildwood

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Last Updated on Monday, April 08, 2013 03:41 pm Written by Staff Reports Monday, April 08, 2013 03:25 pm

Photo Courtesy of Zombie Mud Run Photo Courtesy of Zombie Mud Run Hold on to your entrails

WILDWOOD- The zombie apocalypse is set to take over Morey’s FEARS this October when the organization hosts a Zombie Mud Run for the first time.

According to Zombie Mud Run’s website, a 5K obstacle “mud run” is set for Oct. 12 in Wildwood this year. The run will be littered with sand mounds, slides, “quicksand” pits, and other man-made and natural obstacles.

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North Wildwood beach work delayed

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Written by Christie Rotondo Thursday, April 04, 2013 12:14 pm

North Wildwood lost hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of beach to storms. City officials hope to have a beach replenishment contract in time for the summer. North Wildwood lost hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of beach to storms. City officials hope to have a beach replenishment contract in time for the summer. NORTH WILDWOOD- The awarding of the city’s beach replenishment project contract was delayed at Tuesday’s council meeting, despite Memorial Day inching closer.

The city’s beaches lost 150,000 cubic yards of sand in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, and 75,000 cubic yards from beach erosion before the storm.

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In Another Time > Firefighting grew with the town

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Written by Jacob Schaad Jr. Thursday, April 04, 2013 01:00 am

 Benjamin Franklin never visited Holly Beach. He had left this earth almost a century before Holly Beach was incorporated as a borough in April 1885. But, long separated that he was, Franklin probably had an early historical influence on the way they first fought fires at the burgeoning seashore resort.

At the age of 70, Franklin was the oldest to sign the Declaration of Independence, which he helped draft. He had other talents too, not as prominent as the big signing but still significant enough to earn mention in historical accounts. He was a printer, a musician and a volunteer fireman who helped start his own fire company, which may have set the standards for what was to happen in Holly Beach about a century later.

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New attraction at Splash Zone

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Written by Staff Reports Thursday, April 04, 2013 01:00 am

WILDWOOD- Splash Zone Water Park plans to open a $1.9 million Flow House to the park this summer, the largest single attraction expenditure in the park’s history.

The Flow House will be one of only five Flow House venues in the world, according to the organization. A second is located at Thundering Surf Water Park in Beach Haven. The attraction is scheduled to be open Memorial Day weekend.    

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School board adopts $18.8M budget

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Written by Christie Rotondo Thursday, April 04, 2013 01:00 am

WILDWOOD- The Wildwood school district adopted a 2013-2014 budget that calls for a 5-cent tax rate increase and layoffs.

The board plans to cut four teachers and will not replace a secretary who is set to retire this year. 

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Wildwood seeks $230M for homeowners to meet flood standards

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Last Updated on Tuesday, April 02, 2013 03:27 pm Written by Staff Reports Wednesday, April 03, 2013 01:00 am

WILDWOOD- The city has applied for $229.5 million in federal grants that would help safeguard homes and businesses from coastal flooding and provide relief for homeowners who must comply with new property elevation standards.

City Engineer Mark DeBlasio said the city has applied for three FEMA grants at the March 27 commissioners’ meeting.

The grants would have to be approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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Wildwood introduces $23.9M budget

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Written by Christie Rotondo Wednesday, April 03, 2013 01:00 am

WILDWOOD- City commissioners last week introduced a $23.9 million budget. The budget includes a tax rate increase of just under one and a half cents.

“I’ve been in office since 1999 and this is the earliest budget I’ve ever approved,” Mayor Ernie Troiano Jr. said at the meeting.

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