• 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

Big plans for Crest library

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Written by Christie Rotondo Thursday, May 23, 2013 10:16 am

The sketch of the new Wildwood Crest branch of the library was unveiled May 16. The sketch of the new Wildwood Crest branch of the library was unveiled May 16.

Expanded facility could be ready in 2014

 WILDWOOD CREST- The Wildwoods see millions of visitors every summer, but there is only one library on Five Mile Island.

That’s one of the main reasons why the Wildwood Crest branch of the county library is moving to a new location, almost double its current size, on Atlantic Avenue, according to library officials.

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North Wildwood approves $3M land purchase

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Written by Christie Rotondo Thursday, May 23, 2013 10:11 am

NORTH WILDWOOD- Council voted unanimously to purchase the Eighth Street Field Tuesday, despite one resident’s plea for them not to.

Eugene Sanguinetti, who worked for the city until 1993 as a code enforcement officer, said that the Camden Dioceses is not permitted to sell the land the field is on.

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Yecco to retire from Crest

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Written by Christie Rotondo Thursday, May 23, 2013 09:59 am

 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.”

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Field trip for 4-H group

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Written by Staff Reports Wednesday, May 22, 2013 07:07 pm

Field trip for 4-H group Field trip for 4-H group

WOODBINE- Students from Wildwood Middle School visited a hands-on education station at the Cape May County 4-H World Water Monitoring Challenge at Belleplain State Forest.  

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Beach replenishment project set

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Written by Staff Reports Wednesday, May 22, 2013 03:53 pm

A dredge could be seen in Hereford Inlet this week off of the beach near Spruce Avenue. A dredge could be seen in Hereford Inlet this week off of the beach near Spruce Avenue.

 A dredge could be seen in Hereford Inlet this week off of the beach near Spruce Avenue.

The city’s beach replenishment project is set to begin soon, as its north end beaches lost 150,000 cubic yards of sand after Hurricane Sandy.

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Wildwood High School Senior car wash

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Written by Staff Reports Wednesday, May 22, 2013 03:12 pm

Senior Hayley DiBiasio advertises for the Wildwood High School Senior car wash. Senior Hayley DiBiasio advertises for the Wildwood High School Senior car wash.

Senior Hayley DiBiasio advertises for the Wildwood High School Senior car wash.

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Thousands walk to fight diabetes

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Last Updated on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 04:15 pm Written by Staff Reports Wednesday, May 22, 2013 03:00 pm

Ten-year-old Jennifer of Gloucester County and Jack Morey of Morey’s Piers show off their insulin pumps. Jennifer’s is attached to her upper arm, and Morey’s to his right side. (Her parents asked her surname not be published.) Ten-year-old Jennifer of Gloucester County and Jack Morey of Morey’s Piers show off their insulin pumps. Jennifer’s is attached to her upper arm, and Morey’s to his right side. (Her parents asked her surname not be published.)

WILDWOOD- More than 3,000 people hit the Wildwoods Boardwalk Saturday morning in support of 29 million Americans with Type 1 diabetes.

The 2013 Walk to Cure Diabetes raised $119,000, well above the initial goal of $65,000, said Michael Block, co-chairman of the South Jersey Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. A final tally could more than double the projected goal.

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Wildwood chooses marbles champions

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Last Updated on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 11:48 am Written by Christie Rotondo Wednesday, May 22, 2013 10:11 am

  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. 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 the marbles.

While the National Marbles Tournament has historically taken place on the island’s beach at Wildwood Avenue, there has never been a champion from New Jersey, let alone the competition’s host city. 

Students from Glenwood Elementary and Wildwood Middle School could change that this June.

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