Bill Barlow

UPPER TOWNSHIP – Former Township Committee member Anthony Inserra has ended his independent campaign this year, clearing the field for cousins Zachary and Samuel Palombo, the Republican nominees.

OCEAN CITY — As sad as he was to see the end of a business that long carried his family name, Jay Gillian acknowledged some relief at the final closing of Gillian's Wonderland last weekend.

CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE — Wildwood Mayor Ernie Troiano Jr. and City Commissioner Steve Mikulski on Friday each rejected proposed plea deals from the state, preferring to take their chances with a jury.

Dan Bachalis and Barbara Neary have a summer home in Margate and a different take on proposed state rules that seek to plan for rising sea levels. While many along the Jersey Shore believe the rules could be devastating if implemented, they think New Jersey needs to plan for a changing world.

Len Desiderio spent more than two decades in Cape May County government, and with no opposition on the ballot, appears to be a shoo-in for another term this November.

Parents and advocates again challenged state health education standards while criticizing Ocean City Board of Education President Sean Barnes at the most recent board meeting.

Members of the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority had five weed business votes Tuesday. There are nine businesses now open, and more than 30 approved, with Atlantic City in line for a potential 50 businesses. City officials like the investment and potential jobs boom, but members of the CRDA board again questioned when enough will be enough.

A long-vacant hotel could see new life as apartments under a proposal approved Tuesday by the board of the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, one of two plans approved for Tennessee Avenue in Atlantic City at the meeting.

Ocean City Council unanimously approved a contract worth just over $6 million for construction of a new police substation on Eighth Street near the Boardwalk, but questions followed about a possible alternative as the owners of a nearby business pitched a land swap.

No matter who wins a Senate seat representing New Jersey in November, the race will make history, giving South Jersey its first senator in decades.