SEA ISLE CITY – The Tri-For-Our-Veterans Triathlon scheduled for Memorial Day Weekend will not use Commonwealth Avenue for its bike race, meaning the road won’t have to close to vehicle traffic at the unofficial start of summer.

Business owners here were worried that closing Commonwealth Drive would effectively close down Strathmere. The road is the only main thoroughfare in town.

New Cape-Atlantic Marine Corps League Commandant Joe Patrick, left, receives his gavel from New Jersey State Marine Corps League Commandant Tony Modzelewski. (Submitted by Paul Robinson)

GALLOWAY – The annual changing of the guard” has taken place at the Marine Corps League bunker here.

Rachel Fosbenner/A woman holds a child in Port-a-Piment, Haiti.

Before she left for Haiti, Amy Holmes knew her trip to the poor Caribbean nation would be unlike any she ever had taken. The tarantula in her bed on her first night in the southwestern seaport town of Cayes further convinced her she was right.

Holmes, one of 12 people from Second Cape May Baptist Church in Upper Township who traveled in March on a mission to Port-a-Piment, said she said a quick prayer that nothing worse would happen during the group’s week in Haiti and went to sleep.

M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel have created yet another timeless collection of pop songs on She & Him “Volume 3,” released Tuesday, May 7.

The retro sound is as authentic as it was on their last three albums – Volumes One and Two and an album of Christmas music released last year – and has stepped up the tone and maturity of the warmly sweet melodies that have defined the She & Him sound.