Cape May Point News

Daylight is growing shorter. The crescendo of summer birdsong has quieted to a whisper.

Legislation sponsored by Assemblymen Nelson Albano and Matthew Milam to help preserve farmland and open space throughout the 1st legislative district has been approved by an Assembly panel, the district office announced on June 9. 'New Jersey is called the Garden State for a reason,' Albano, chairman of the Assembly Agriculture and Natural ...

Every year, for the last 54 years, the Cape May Point Civic Club has held an annual Bazaar over the July 4 weekend.

Puddles, puddles everywhere and not a beach day, ya think? Enough already! Rain.

Postmaster Melissa Lomax visited Cape May City Elementary School on June 5. The event, sponsored by the Cape May Point Post Office, took place in the auditorium.

Council passed a resolution accepting the engineering and design firms selected by Kimmel-Bogrette Architects for certain audio/visual, lighting and design projects associated with the new Convention Hall project.

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An order of nuns is battling a Jersey shore community over taxes on their $6 million property.

CAPE MAY POINT, N.J. - The Coast Guard says it has recovered the body of a 51-year-old New Jersey man who jumped overboard from a whale-watching boat off Cape May.

" Legislation sponsored by Assemblymen Nelson T. Albano and Matthew W. Milam to help preserve farmland and open space throughout the 1st District has been approved by an Assembly panel.

What exactly does a day at the beach mean to you? Diving headfirst into crashing waves? Reveling in the guilty pleasure of a Harlan Coben novel while sitting on the wraparound porch of a gingerbread B&B? Ambling among the swaying sea grass with only the sound of the waves to keep you company? Who could blame you for answering, 'All of the above'? ...

C HEER: To Audrey Liu, the 12-year-old Mount Laurel student who represented South Jersey in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., this week.

The boards of education of West Cape May, Cape May and Cape May Point, along with their school administrators and board attorneys, met with Cape May County Executive Superintendent Terrence Crowley on Wednesday, May 20, to further discuss the possibility of merging the districts, according to Cape May Superintendent Victoria Zelenak.

SWAINTON a ' Cape May County Municipal Utilities Authority is distributing $914,037 in recycling rebates to the countya TMs 16 municipalities.

City Council passed a resolution Tuesday May 19 opposing plans of the Catholic Diocese of Camden to close Our Lady Star of the Sea School and send students to St.

Four years ago, West Cape May voters had a very important decision to make, were we going to vote to maintain the original character of the borough through smart growth, or were we going to let developers tear down our history and let West Cape May become just another homogenized shore town.

Once or twice a year, Mary Paddock and her husband, Lynn, drive 700 miles from their home in Indiana, and pay $35 each to bed down on sleeping bags in unheated rooms - all for the opportunity to donate sweat equity, scraping and spackling the walls of this city's historic Chalfonte Hotel .

Local graduates Air Force basic training Air Force Airman Jared B. Wolf graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, TX.

The borough of Cape May Point approved its $1.6 million budget on Thursday, April 9. The budget includes a $1.2 million tax levy, up 2.94 percent from 2008.

Once a beautiful vessel, now a haunting site. In this photograph, you can see the remains of the S.S. Atlantus.