ATLANTIC CITY – Recognizing that local governments are suffering a substantial financial burden as a result of the current economic recession, Gov. Jon S. Corzine on Thursday, Nov. 20 announced a plan to help ease their near-term budget crunch – and keep property taxes in check – by allowing counties and municipalities to temporarily defer 50 percent of next April’s payment into the employee pension system.

ATLANTIC CITY — Cape May’s Municipal Engineer Marc DeBlasio won a first place award for Municipal Construction Projects, population under 20,000 in the New Jersey Society of Municipal Engineers Project of the Year Awards.

The award was for the Washington Street Mall.

Award winners were recognized at the society's annual luncheon on Wednesday, Nov.19 at the Atlantic City Convention Center in conjunction with the NJ League of Municipalities Conference.

ATLANTIC CITY — The South Jersey Transportation Authority will implement a toll increase and tourism discount on the Atlantic City Expressway on Tuesday, Nov.18 at 12:01 a.m.

Toll rates will increase on all of the expressway’s ramps and toll plazas. All ramps that are currently 25 cents will increase to 40 cents; all 50 cents ramps will increase to 75 cents; automobile toll rates at Egg Harbor will increase from $2 to $3 and Pleasantville toll plaza will increase from 50 cents to 75 cents.

ATLANTIC CITY — The American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet Recognition Program for excellence in nursing services again designated AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center as a Magnet hospital Oct. 10.

ARMC became the 105th hospital in the nation to attain status as a Magnet™ designated hospital in March of 2004.

“Earning Magnet status once is a tremendous accomplishment,” stated Robyn Begley, vice president of nursing, AtlantiCare in a release.

ATLANTIC CITY — The Coast Guard medevaced a 60-year-old male Wednesday from a cruise ship 60 miles east of here.

The Coast Guard received a call at 11:14 p.m. from a crewmember aboard the Carnival Miracle requesting the man be medevaced. The crewmember was unsure of the condition of the man but reported he thought he was suffering from a heart attack or stroke and needed medical assistance.

A rescue helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City arrived on scene and transported the man to AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center City Campus for treatment.

Chief Warrant Officer James Paton and Chief Warrant Officer Herman P. Kaiser each received a shadow box at their joint retirement ceremony Sept. 20, 2008, at Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City Coast Guard Photo/Chief Warrant Officer Veronica Bandrowsky

ATLANTIC CITY — Chief Warrant Officer James Paton and Chief Warrant Officer Herman P. Kaiser each received a shadow box at their joint retirement ceremony Saturday, Sept. 20, at Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City.

Paton and Kaiser are both residents of New Jersey and entered the Coast Guard in 1977, they retired after serving 62-years of combined military service.

Paton, a resident of Pine Beach, and friend Chief Warrant Officer Herman P. Kaiser, a resident of Mullica Township, both enlisted in the Coast Guard in 1977.

ATLANTIC CITY — Due to the approach of Tropical Storm Hanna an enhanced risk of rip current activity is possible for the New Jersey coast, according to a Coast Guard release Sept. 2.

The Coast Guard is urging beach goers to be aware of the dangers of rip currents in their area.

Rip currents can drag swimmers away from the beach and lead to death by drowning when they attempt to fight the current and become exhausted.

ATLANTIC CITY --The Coast Guard deployed 22 personnel Aug. 31 from Air Station Atlantic City to Jacksonville, Fla., in preparation for Hurricane Gustav.

Personnel from Air Station Atlantic City aboard a Coast Guard C-130 airplane from Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., and a rescue helicopter crew are en route to Jacksonville.

Hurricane Gustav is expected to make landfall Monday on the north Gulf Coast.

ATLANTIC CITY -- The Coast Guard medevaced a 38-year-old female on July 11 after she sustained a head injury from slipping aboard a boat in the Delaware Bay near Fortescue.

The Coast Guard received a call about 2:52 p.m. from someone aboard the Soggy Dollar reporting the victim was unconscious, had a weak pulse, not breathing and that CPR was being conducted.

A rescue boat crew from Coast Guard Station Fortescue, arrived on scene and also conducted CPR on her.

ATLANTIC CITY — A rescue helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City rescued a sailor today after his sailboat ran aground off the coast of Ocean City, Md. That was the fifth rescue for the air crew on May 12.

Rescued was Robert Pollak of Sayville, N.Y.

Someone on shore contacted the Coast Guard and reported seeing a sailboat run aground off 10th Street in Ocean City.

A rescue boat crew from Coast Guard Station Ocean City, and a rescue helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City arrived on scene to assist Pollak.