• 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.

Wildwood Leader

Three face drug charges in Wildwood

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Written by Staff Reports Friday, May 03, 2013 12:29 pm

WILDWOOD – A man and two juveniles face charges after an investigation by the Cape May County Prosecutor’s Office and Wildwood police.

The county SWAT team executed a search warrant on Poplar Avenue on May 2.

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Winterwood opens on boardwalk

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Last Updated on Thursday, May 02, 2013 04:46 pm Written by Christie Rotondo Thursday, May 02, 2013 12:25 pm

Photo by Christie Rotondo/ Alexa and Cindy Alvarado pose in their new Winterwood Shoppe on the boardwalk in Wildwood. Photo by Christie Rotondo/ Alexa and Cindy Alvarado pose in their new Winterwood Shoppe on the boardwalk in Wildwood. WILDWOOD- Christmas is coming to the boardwalk this summer.

Winterwood Gift Shoppe, which has three other locations throughout Cape May County, has opened a shop on the boardwalk for the first time.

The location at 3916 Boardwalk, between Spicer and Spencer avenues, opened Thursday, owner Tom Alvarado said.

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Signs of life seen on Pacific

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Last Updated on Wednesday, May 01, 2013 06:26 pm Written by Christie Rotondo Thursday, May 02, 2013 07:00 am

Photo by Christie Rotondo/ The corner of Spicer and Pacific has a number of open and growing businesses in the city’s downtown. Photo by Christie Rotondo/ The corner of Spicer and Pacific has a number of open and growing businesses in the city’s downtown. WILDWOOD- For the past 10 years, local business owners have paid to bring Pacific Avenue back.

According to Business Improvement District officer Jodie DiEduardo, things are starting to look up in Wildwood’s downtown.

“Businesses that are open are staying open,” DiEduardo said Friday during a tour of Pacific Avenue. DiEduardo is also senior vice president at Crest Savings Bank.

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Wildwoods seeks to get out the message: ‘We’re ready’

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Written by Christie Rotondo Thursday, May 02, 2013 12:00 am

John Sicliano fields questions from reporters during a press conference April 26. John Sicliano fields questions from reporters during a press conference April 26.

 WILDWOOD- The island’s tourism authority had one message for media Friday: they’re ready.

While other shore towns are still scrambling to prepare for the summer tourism season after Hurricane Sandy, officials said that the Wildwoods were essentially unscathed.

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Quotes of the Week> May 02

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Written by Staff Reports Thursday, May 02, 2013 12:00 am

“We’re not trying to pretend we’re fine art. This is not Stone Harbor, we don’t want to be Stone Harbor. But there is a quirky-ness and a really unique culture in Wildwood that I think is…untold.”

-- Jack Morey on the new Artbox at Adventure Pier.

“It seems like every year we are getting one or two new businesses to come down to Pacific Avenue and they are staying.”

-- Jodie DiEduardo, senior vice president of Crest Savings Bank and BID board member on Pacific Avenue businesses.

“The chief has raised that bar on every one of you in the police department.”

-- North Wildwood Mayor Bill Henfey on Robert Matteucci’s accomplishments as the city’s police chief.

 

North Wildwood observes Loyalty Day

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Written by Staff Reports Thursday, May 02, 2013 12:00 am

Officers stand in front of a fire truck flying the flag. Officers stand in front of a fire truck flying the flag.

North Wildwood held a loyalty day celebration Wednesday, May 1, hosted by the Veterans of Foreign Wars North Wildwood Post 5941.

VFW Commander Joe Orlando explained the significance of the day, and the flag was raised, national anthem sung, and Pledge of Allegiance recited as well.

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Meters went on Wednesday

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Last Updated on Wednesday, May 08, 2013 04:41 pm Written by Staff Reports Thursday, May 02, 2013 12:00 am

 WILDWOOD CREST – Parking meters for the 2013 summer season in the borough will be in effect 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily from Wednesday, May 1 through Monday, Sept. 30, as per a resolution passed by the borough’s Board of Commissioners earlier this year.

Parking meter rates for the 2013 summer season are $1.50 per hour, or 10 minutes per quarter. Seasonal parking passes are available and may be purchased by contacting the Borough Tax Collector’s office at 609-729-8031.

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City gauging interest in bringing back summer camp

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Last Updated on Wednesday, May 01, 2013 03:52 pm Written by Christie Rotondo Thursday, May 02, 2013 12:00 am

WILDWOOD- After a three year hiatus, the recreation department plans to again host a summer day camp for kids this season.

However, holding the camp will be contingent on the public’s interest, Rich Hans, recreation director said.

“We don’t want to do it if it’s under 20 kids,” Hans said. He explained that to hold the camp, counselors will have to be hired- and the cost of hiring the counselors needs to be offset by cost for kids to attend the camp.

Mayor Ernie Troiano Jr. said that the camp would be “self-liquidating” at the April 24 commissioners’ meeting.

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