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 [...]

Cape May Foodie: Bread Line

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Cape May, NJ -  It’s not even 10AM on a dreary Saturday morning. But on Sunset Boulevard, near Cape May Point, people have abandoned their cars on the side of the road and are standing in line. Waiting. Patiently.  A few minutes before ten, Elizabeth Degener starts unloading the goods from the back of a [...]

Bald Eagles Nesting in Cape May

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Cape May, NJ – In a tangle of vines and tree limbs, set far away from roads and people,  a pair of bald eagles is nesting below the canal  on Cape Island.  Barely visible above the nest’s thicket of branches almost a thousand feet away, an adult eagle pokes its white head out of the [...]

Life in Cape May: Spring Fog

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Cape May Point, NJ – You stand on the dune path in Cape May Point State Park and look out to where the ocean is supposed to be. You take it on faith that, somewhere in that massive mist, huge waves are crashing onshore. You just can’t see them. Spring brings many things to Cape [...]

Cape May Point General Store Restaurant

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Cape May Point, NJ – Cape May Point residents have a surprise waiting for them when they return to the beach this season.  The Cape May Point General Store is being taken over by some well known local restaurateurs. Deanna Ebner, co-owner of the popular Quahog’s Seafood Shack in Stone Harbor, is literally moving in. [...]

Cape May’s Early Spring Daffodils

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Cape May, NJ – There’s nothing like that first bunch of daffodils in the Spring to stir up spring fever.   I  found the earliest bloomers last week on Stevens St. in West Cape May.  Now, it’s a week later. I want more. I do have some parameters for my searching.  In addition to early blooming, [...]