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Local items and stories of interest in the Cape May, NJ area.

West Cape May Christmas Parade 2012

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Cape May, NJ – The firetrucks were flashing on and off like 3-D day-glo art works.  Mummers and marching bands filled the night with music. The only thing missing in the West Cape May Christmas Parade Saturday night were winter coats. It was  a remarkably balmy evening. Parade goers along Broadway hopped from open house [...]

Cape May Mayor’s Results

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Cape May, NJ – It took a couple of weeks of vote counting, but Cape May finally has a new mayor. He’s the current mayor, Edward Mahaney. Mayor Mahaney won the close race against Russell Chew by 12 votes. Here are the final votes from Cape May County Clerk Rita Marie Fulginiti’s office: Edward J. [...]

Cape May Mayor’s Race

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Cape May, NJ – It’s two days since voters went to the polls and Cape May still doesn’t know who it’s next mayor will be. Blame it on Hurricane Sandy. Cape May County Clerk Rita Marie Fulginiti says several deadlines were changed, by executive order from the governor’s office, to allow residents displaced by the storm [...]

Sandy the Day After

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  Cape May, NJ – Yesterday, these houses were across the street from the beach. This morning, the beach has come to them. The eastern end of Cape May’s Beach Ave. had a major shifting of the sands, thanks to Hurricane Sandy. Hurricane Sandy hit the Jersey coast Monday evening, packing gusts up to 90 [...]

Cape May Point Braces for Sandy

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Cape May Point, NJ – The sign on Sunset Boulevard says it all. Cape May Point residents are being told in no uncertain terms to get out of dodge. As the storm approached Sunday morning, some said they will, some said they won’t. Chris Wimberg plans to stay. He’s been taking photos with his cellphone [...]

Waiting for Sandy

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Cape May, NJ – Living in Cape May in the fall is a lesson in watchful waiting. We don’t get hurricanes here every year, although they often give us pause for thought as they storm out of the Gulf or move up the Atlantic Coast, before moving offshore or making landfall farther north. Passing hundreds [...]

Halloween Parade

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Cape May, NJ -  The annual Halloween parade brought out some very creatively dressed goblins this year. They marched down Carpenter’s Lane and Washington Street Sunday, showing off their handmade, original costumes: Two little ducklings brought their own barnyard. Go get ‘em – a dancer strikes a confident pose. Two for the road, with giant [...]

Wildwood Guinness Record Pie

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Wildwood, NJ – It was almost like a scene from one of those offbeat independent movies. An official representative with the Guinness Book of World Records was in Wildwood Saturday, casting  a stern eye on Wildwood’s attempt to make it into the famed record book. The entry – a long and narrow U shaped Shepherd’s [...]

Dead Whale in Cape May County

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Ocean City, NJ -  It was an incredible site – the lifeless form of a 60 foot whale bobbed slowly up and down in the waves on an Ocean City beach Monday afternoon, while gulls circled overhead.  The Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine reportedly identified the whale as a Finback whale.   Finbacks can reach [...]

Polar Plunge

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Wildwood, NJ – Hundreds of people wearing only bathing suits stood on a chilly Wildwood beach Saturday, waiting for the signal. And they were off.  Running across the beach in 37 degree weather, plunging into a 44 degree winter ocean. Man that was cold. Bystanders were bundled up in parkas, hats and gloves.  Some of [...]