Schools to represent island in national competition

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

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…

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.

Workers in hardhats used a huge crane to lift the final piece in place for Artbox on the Morey’s Piers on Thursday afternoon.

The attraction is made up of former shipping containers, repurposed as gallery space, a café and studios at Adventure Pier. According to Jack Morey, president of Morey’s Piers, part of the idea…

WILDWOOD — Commissioners say they refuse to adopt the current FEMA advisory base flood elevation maps as they stand.

“I refuse to adopt any map that says that the back bay could see three feet of wave action,” Mayor Ernie Troiano Jr. said at the May 8 commissioner’s meeting.

However, if Wildwood commissioners do not adopt the maps, residents will not be eligible for grants to raise their homes and FEMA mitigation funds, according to Lawrence Hanja, a spokesman with the state Department of…

Watch for ‘Doo WW’ image 

WILDWOOD- Now that it’s almost impossible to go anywhere on the Jersey Shore without seeing a “DO AC” magnet, Wildwood is hoping to get that same sort of recognition for their seashore resort, too.

Patrick Rosenello, executive director of the boardwalk and downtown improvement districts, said that the districts are unveiling 10,000 “DOO WW” magnets this week.