VENTNOR – Gov. Chris Christie's public schedule for Friday, May 17 includes a 2 p.m. stop in Ventnor for a Discovery Communications / Habitat for Humanity volunteer meet and greet, and a "home rebuilding tour."

Submitted/Clarion Hotel in West Atlantic City to be converted into affordable housing apartments.

EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP – Developers of an affordable housing project got the green light to move ahead with plans to convert the Clarion Hotel into apartments on Wednesday, May 8 after Township Committee passed a series of resolutions by a 4-1 vote authorizing the project.

Photos by Ellen Pfeifle/ Mike Rogers, a historian for Fort Miles, dresses in a World War II era uniform of the 261st Delaware Coastal Artillery. He answered questions from visitors to the tower on Saturday, May 11.

 LOWER TOWNSHIP – Area residents, veterans, military history buffs and patriots expect to gather at the World War II Tower here on Saturday, May 18 to celebrate Armed Forces Day.

“Coming together with others at the tower is a great way to celebrate Armed Forces Day because the tower is home to the Cape May-area veterans’ eternal flame, honoring all servicemen and women from the area,” said Dr. Bob Heinly, the museum education coordinator for the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts. “We’ll have the first public reading of a letter recently discovered from a Union officer to his family, while he was a prisoner of the Confederacy during the Civil War, and we’ll have the Elks flag ceremony, in addition to World War II era military re-enactors from the 261st Coastal Artillery Unit.”

LOWER TOWNSHIP – Officials hope to hold a town meeting here after the summer to address drug issues and addiction.

Mayor Michael Beck, who came to elected office after 25 as a Philadelphia police officer, said he sees the spread of heroin use as a clear and present danger for his community.