RIO GRANDE — The Cape May County Department of Aging will hold a public hearing for the purpose of receiving comment on its proposed Area Plan Grant on Aug. 20, at 2 p.m., according to Freeholder Gerald Thornton.

The hearing will focus on the 2009 update of the plan that covers services the county intends to fund during 2009.

The hearing will take place in the Meeting Room at the Social Services Building, 4005 Route 9 South here.

RIO GRANDE — The Cape May County Office of Emergency Management announced that the State Office of Emergency Management is monitoring a weather event in coordination with the National Weather Service (NWS) and will continue to monitor this Weather Event and provide updates as issued by NWS.

The National Weather Service in Mount Holly has issued for Cape May County a Tornado Watch until 1 a.m. June 5, and also a Severe Thunderstorm Threat for the afternoon of June 4.

The warnings are printed in full below:

Hazardous Weather Outlook

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED

RIO GRANDE — Middle Township Police Street Crimes Unit arrested Steven Bohl, 54, of Pitman on March 28, after he was seen allegedly entering Cape May Seashore Lines train cars on sidings here, and removing items.

Police said Bohl then took the items to his vehicle.

An investigation determined that Bohl did not have permission to remove those items from the train, police reported.

He was charged with theft and released on a summons complaint.

RIO GRANDE -- The identity of the Grande Woods Mobile Home Park resident who died in a March 7 fire was identified by Middle Township Police on March 11.

Barbara P. Bulakowski, 61, perished in the 11:15 p.m. blaze along with her dog, Lucy.

Her only survivors are a niece and nephew who reside in North Carolina.

On March 11, that niece traveled from her home to the lot in Grande Woods where her aunt died. She collected whatever she could from among the blackened ruins of the mobile home at 13 Priest Boulevard.

SHAWCREST — At 2:30 p.m., Tuesday, Middle and Lower township police and Rio Grande volunteer firefighters are responding to the scene of an accident in the eastbound lane Wildwood Boulevard at the traffic signal.
No further information is available.