Fortescue News

Two people stranded on a personal watercraft in Cumberland County were found uninjured by Coast Guard rescue crews.

More than 60 percent of 1,599 respondents to a Daily Journal online survey said they planned to stay closer to home this summer and vacation in New Jersey because of the dismal economy.

The Coast Guard and New Jersey State Police rescued five people Monday aboard a 60-foot boat taking on water near the entrance to the Maurice River in Maurice Cove, N.J. The Coast Guard received a call at 10:11 a.m. from a crew member aboard the Howard W. Sockwell reporting the boat was taking on water.

The Delaware Bay Lighthouse Keepers & Friends Association has scheduled its lighthouse cruises for 2009.

Erosion is the downside of hosting bayshore communities and Downe Township is dealing with problems in all three of its waterfront villages of Money Island, Gandy's Beach and Fortescue.

"Around Fortescue" is just that, a trip around the island, past and present, through a collection of photographs compiled by Betty and Clarence "Bunky" Higbee.

Maurice River was not the only bayshore community to be hit by Saturday's severe storm.

The Atlantic City Ballet will host its third annual wine tasting and silent auction at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Ram's Head Inn in Galloway.

Two arrests have been made in a series of break-ins in the Fortescue area. A 16-year-old juvenile and a 20-year old Fortescue resident have been arrested and charged in connection with numerous break-ins and thefts, and police believe there could be more, not yet discovered.

A yard sale to benefit the James G. Grace Memorial Fund will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 9 at the Fortescue Chapel, 157 New Jersey Ave., Fortescue.

Opinions are divided over a proposal to establish a horseshoe crab sanctuary along Cumberland County's Delaware Bay shoreline at Fortescue.

Yesterday morning we started out at Bivalve. The shell piles smelled even worse than the last time .

State police are investigating an incident where a one-month-old Newport child suffered a fractured arm in Fortescue Monday afternoon.

DOWNE -- The Community Chapel in Fortescue has announced its winter and spring schedule of events: lunch, every second Sunday of the month, following the 11 a.m. service; brief congregational meeting, following ...

With video / FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP - In an isolated corner of southwest New Jersey, a community is slowly dying.

At one point, Matthew Craddock was considering pleading insanity in connection with the 2006 stabbing death of 20-year-old James Grace.