Mayor Peter Byron and Gov. Phil Murphy met virtually Feb. 9 to discuss state funding to replace the Wildwood Boardwalk, Byron told the Herald.

An engineering firm will perform a cost analysis of repairing the Wildwood Boardwalk, after Mayor Peter Byron said he got reassuring words from top aides in Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration that state help is coming.

Gov. Murphy Aug. 31 signed legislation (A3971), which authorizes municipalities and counties to borrow funds to cover revenue shortfalls and expenditures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, by issuing bonds and notes.

The four Republican members of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee panned Gov. Phil Murphy’s recommended changes to legislation approved by the Legislature.

Sen. Michael Testa (R-1st) "slammed" Gov. Phil Murphy for vetoing legislation aimed at providing relief to small businesses.

Masonry is Ernie Troiano’s family business, so he knows what he’s looking at when he points out crumbling concrete under his city’s boardwalk.

City Commissioners must find an alternative source of funding for the Boardwalk since Gov. Phil Murphy’s veto Aug. 23. According to media sources, Murphy declared the bill “unconstitutional and unenforceable.”