Shay Roddy

WILDWOOD – After a grueling week in a Manhattan criminal courtroom, Donald Trump received a well-timed boost from a fervent and loyal crowd of supporters who packed the beach for the former president’s campaign rally in Wildwood.

Wildwood Mayor Ernie Troiano, left, Commissioner Steve Mikulski, center, and former Mayor Pete Byron, during appearances in Cape May County Superior Court. All three have indicated plans to take a prosecution, alleging they defrauded the State Health Benefits Program, to trial.

Looking south from above Hereford Inlet is North Wildwood’s beachfront. A project to replenish its beaches with sand from Hereford Inlet will begin the first week of June.

Three current or former Wildwood officials – from left, Pete Byron, Ernie Troiano Jr. and Steve Mikulski – charged with improperly using state health benefits had a new trial conference date set.

COURT HOUSE – A former detective sergeant with the county Prosecutor’s Office agreed to sign a consent order for a lifetime ban on public employment, resolving a criminal prosecution in which he was charged with undertaking an unauthorized investigation of an accident involving his mother-in-law. Robert P. Harkins Jr., the former detective, applied Friday, Sept. […]

Wildwood Mayor Ernie Troiano Jr. leaving the courtroom after his trial date was set, for March 3, 2025.

Voice of Wildwood Boardwalk Sues to Bar Future Use of Iconic Recording WILDWOOD – “Watch the tram car, please,” Floss Stingel said into a tape recorder in 1971. And the rest is history. But the iconic Wildwoods saying may soon become a thing of the past, as a result of a suit Stingel filed earlier […]

AVALON – As an excavator worked quickly on Friday, Oct. 25, demolishing the building that was home to Via Mare Ristorante, cars slowed, some stopped, and people stood on the sidewalk and watched. In Avalon, where redevelopment is omnipresent, there is nothing particularly remarkable about a demolition. Rather, it was what would soon be missing […]

First of two parts on transparency in county and municipal governments.

The North Wildwood beachfront, looking south from above Hereford Inlet in March 2024, showing an area where erosion has been devastating.