Fri, 08/08/2008 - 11:03am

The worst place to ride a bike.

The worst places to ride bikes are on any major road here - too much traffic. Too many bikes on 550 too, from the trailer parks, they need to stay off this road - this is a business area with large trucks and the bikes need to stay off the business grounds. There is a nice walking path/bike path in Woodbine that few people seem to use - that is a nice place to ride and walk.

Wed, 07/30/2008 - 3:31pm

I loved your story !! When we first moved here ,there were nothing but mom and pop businesses and I miss them .I could go in and visit with the owner ,take something home for a trial and generally expect courteous ,personal service .Remember Taylor's Market.The Kranich Shop in Wildwood and The MArtha Shop ?

Mon, 09/22/2008 - 12:53pm

What happened to the burgerking in north cape may this Saturday?

Thu, 07/10/2008 - 7:59am

Why are Upper Township Schools and Police Bulletins not here? Is it because we do not have a police entity and use State Police?

Fri, 07/04/2008 - 5:38am

Did you article explain these messages come directly to our cell phones from the police? Which police? How does that work? Thanks.

Wed, 04/23/2008 - 9:32am

That banner on the left is rotating throughout the site, do not click that. Click the "SIGN UP NOW" right above this message.

Wed, 04/23/2008 - 9:12am

I am an individual property owner in Cape May county, I would like tohave traffic alerts sent to my cell phone. When i click on sign up now, it sends me in a loop back to this page.

Tue, 04/22/2008 - 7:30pm

Good Idea!

Wed, 04/30/2008 - 1:11pm

People who have primary residences in other counties pay the same property taxes, same water and sewer bills, same cable bills, etc. as year round residents. I believe we also contribute to the local economy from March to November in most cases. I wonder what percentage of the county population we actually are and what the the prospect for the betterment of the county be without us. We don't have any say really, just offer opinions to keep this area the place it can and should remain. The whole state is in the same situation. Maybe each one of us should help solve small problems instead of looking for bigger ones. Please help take care of the small briges, before building bigger ones.

Wed, 04/02/2008 - 12:19am

Although ALL counties are suffering and needing more full time benefit paying jobs, Cape May certainly seems to be suffering more than others. Business and industry needs to be attracted to the area. It is hard to compete with New York, Philadelphia and Wilmington so close by, but there still have to be plenty of opportunities for the right kind of busineses. Local government officials have lately been elected on Historical Preservation and Progress Prevention platforms. HA! Is it any wonder why businesses are not coming? When the county wakes up and realizes it NEEDS PROGRESS, not Stagnation, business and residents may return. If it isn't too late.

Wed, 03/26/2008 - 7:26am

Maybe if the IRS and ICE came down and arrested the contractors,business owners and all the illegal immigrants they are paying under the table; there might be more jobs for the locals. The fishing industry, restaurants and building contractors who employ illegals all need a wake up call. Turn them in. Call the IRS on them.

Tue, 03/25/2008 - 3:26pm

Maybe the county could hire some locals to feed those flea infested cats by the ferry all winter

Tue, 03/25/2008 - 3:20am

People who have a primary residence somewhere else should have no say in the direction this county takes regarding development. They make their paycheck in another county, of which I am sure has much better employment opportunities than our CMC. The CMC economy is not good for the local people who live here year round. It never has been and is far worse now that housing prices have risen. The largest and best employer is local & county government. After that the second largest employer is Wawa. There is very little job opportunity for a liveable wage with medical insurance. That is why families are leaving. Our county population has the highest percentage of loss of people in the entire state of NJ and our schools are losing students more every year, many will need to close. While the seasonal people may not notice this or care, lack of commerce through a interstate connection via a bridge/tunnel is slowly wiping out the residents ability to continue to live here. Cape May County is dying a slow death. We don't need more housing for people....we need big commerce and good jobs. Our county government needs to work on a plan to make CMC more viable for the locals into the future.....what visitors and second home owners want, should be second to what the people who actually call CMC home need.

Mon, 03/24/2008 - 10:01am

How can people think of building bridges when the economy is so bad. Maybe we should make the best of what we have. Can you imagine the traffic and congestion on small county roads or shall we spend billions building super highways over the wetlands and destroy the area completely. Don't we have enough empty condos and empty lots where busy motels once stood! Maybe we should slow down the progress and destruction and preserve what we have. Maybe we should figure out why all the building in Wildwood hasn't made it a thriving area. I pray each year I will be able to pay property taxes on my small summer cottage and my humble home in another county where we are trying to preserve our farmland before the Governor does away with the Department of Agriculture in the Garden State.. You don't need bridges or superhighways to have commerce. There are opportuniities for business in the smaller counties in New Jersey but they are being taxed to death. Fishing was the industry here years ago. Why isn't that flourishing still. We need more laws to stop comtinued development that is burdening our economy, less taxes, more incentives for smaller businesses to survive. Imagine what the great increase in tolls will do the economy of this area. It is only the beginning.

Sun, 03/23/2008 - 8:59pm

The founding reason people ever came here was because it was a peaceful, quite, and safe community. Well that went out the window didn't it. And about the bridge, from an engineering stand point, to build a bridge slightly over 13 miles long would not only be in the billions but would take close to 15 years to even think of bieng completed. Also you must think of the barges that are in the bay everyday importing and exporting merchindise to philadelphia that is valuable to our economy. Why hurt the economy any more then what already been done.

Sun, 03/23/2008 - 9:03am

I agree a bridge would have a positive impact on our community, but those crazy environmentalist dont wont to put wind farms up to create clean energy could you imagine trying to get them to ok a bridg from Lewis to Cape May

Sat, 03/22/2008 - 4:50pm

Most students with lower than C averages don't apply themselves anyway,and only disrupt the hard workers..We have things like prisons and welfare for them.

Fri, 03/21/2008 - 4:34am

The major problem with Cape May County, which is one of only a couple counties in the entire state that is losing population instead of gaining, is our being stuck with a money losing ferry instead of having a bridge to Delaware. If we had a bridge, we would not be the terminal end (dead end) of NJ. We would have a interstate highway that tourists and more importantly commerce could and would utilize to get from the Northeast states to the South East states. Without a bridge, we will continue our downward decline. This makes the environmentalists (who live in other states & counties) happy because they have their tiney, laid back, largely preserved Cape May county to come and unwind from their hectic good paying jobs in other growing counties. We're dying and we thank the DRBA for not having the wisdom or caring to ditch the loser ferry and build a bridge.

Thu, 03/20/2008 - 7:35pm

A major part of the reason is because of the lack of jobs. We also have a county tech school that only allows certain students with grades of c or above. That defeats the purpose for kids who are not as strong academiclly that could be learning a trade to help support themselves in the adult years. Maybe this would keep more people here and help lower the county unemployment rate. Why are we paying taxes for a school that is not open to all county students? As far as I know, This is the only county that runs a tech school this way!