Press of Atlantic City back issues from February 2008:
Bowling roundup: Lacey Township boys defeat Central newsal, Monsignor Donovan
Feb 01, 2008 ... From Press staff reports The Lacey Township High School boys bowling team won two matches Thursday, defeating Central Regional and Monsignor Donovan each 2-1 at Ocean Lanes in Lakewood. Ray Robinson led Lacey against Central with a high game of 257, and Dan Lesniakowski had a ...
Swimming roundup: Tara Wuko, Dan Flynn lead Wildwood Catholic over Middle
Feb 01, 2008 ... From Press staff reports Tara Wuko and Dan Flynn each won two individual events to help the Wildwood Catholic coed swimming team defeat host Middle Township 108-62 in a Cape-Atlantic League meet Thursday. Wuko won the 200-yard individual medley and the 500 freestyle, while ...
Girls basketball roundup: Kaity Lent, Danielle Barber score 1,000th points
Feb 01, 2008 ... From Press staff reports Sacred Heart senior guard Kaity Lent scored all 22 of her points in the fourth quarter Thursday to go over 1,000 points as the Lions topped visiting Buena Regional 59-38 in a Cape-Atlantic League girls basketball game.Sacred Heart (17-0) is No. 4 in ...
Boys basketball roundup: Vineland eliminates O.C. from playoff hunt
Feb 01, 2008 ... From Press staff reports The Vineland High School boys basketball team beat host Ocean City 55-42 in a Cape-Atlantic League game Thursday, eliminating the Red Raiders from qualifying for the South Jersey Group III tournament. Ocean City dropped to 8-10 on the year. Vineland's ...
Feb. 1 high school schedule
Feb 01, 2008 ... face=+Bold; BOYS BASKETBALLface=-Bold; face=+Bold; Battle by the Bayface=-Bold;at Atlantic City face=+Bold; 7 p.m.face=-Bold;Bishop Laughlin (N.Y.) vs. Linden face=+Bold; 8:30 p.m.face=-Bold;Holy Spirit vs. Atlantic ...
Southern's Jill Smith to run in girls mile at Millrose Games on Friday
Feb 01, 2008 ... From Press staff reports Jill Smith will try to boost her reputation as one of the nation's top scholastic distance runners tonight. The Southern Regional High School junior will run in the girls mile at the Millrose Games in New York's Madison Square Garden. Smith ...
Battle by the Bay preview
Feb 01, 2008 ... WHEN/WHERE: Tonight, Saturday and Sunday at Atlantic City High School, Black Horse Pike TICKETS: $9 per session THE SCHEDULE: face=+Bold; Tonight, Session A<HLN></HLN> 7 p.m.: face=-Bold; Bishop Loughlin, N.Y. vs. Linden (Union County) face=+Bold; 8:30 p.m.: ...
Fab freshmen are quick studies in tough Cape-Atlantic League
Feb 01, 2008; ... The chants grew louder with each acrobatic layup and 3-pointer that Isaiah Morton sank against St. Joseph on Tuesday night. "He's a freshman!" the St. Augustine Prep boys basketball fans shouted. "He's a freshman!" Morton finished with 30 points and St. Augustine won 64-51. The ...
My life: Southern newsal's Jill Smith likes view out front
Feb 01, 2008 ... Jill Smith will step back onto the track and the self-proclaimed "World's Most Famous Arena" tonight. The Southern Regional High School junior will run the girls mile in the prestigious Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Smith finished fourth in last ...
Police, fire and courts
Feb 01, 2008 ... HAMILTON TOWNSHIP Car hits school bus on Route 40 A Buena Vista Township man was injured Thursday afternoon when his car ran into a tree after striking a school bus that was stopped in traffic on Route 40, police said. Several students suffered minor injuries. Joseph ...
Idol contestant performs in Mays Landing
Feb 01, 2008 ... Joe Catalano, a courier for the Hamilton Township School District - and now a contender in the seventh season of 'American Idol' - showed off his talent Thursday morning for a group of fourth- and fifth-graders at the George Hess School in Mays Landing.During the Idol audition held in ...
Lower Cape May girls team forced to swim against boys
Feb 01, 2008; ... BUENA VISTA TOWNSHIP - The Lower Cape May Regional High School girls swim team is pretty good. Some of the girls have made state cut-off times and have been competitive in some of meets.But it's hard to notice that they swim well because they don't win too often. The problem is the ...
Who's Who in Atlantic County
Feb 01, 2008 ... Who's Who in Atlantic County [bullet] face=+Bold; County Executive:face=-Bold; Dennis Levinson [bullet] face=+Bold; County Administrator:face=-Bold; Gerald DelRosso [bullet] face=+Bold; County Clerk:face=-Bold; Ed McGettigan [bullet] face=+Bold; County ...
What's happening in Cumberland County
Feb 01, 2008 ... Red Cross walkathon April 12 The American Red Cross Atlantic/Cumberland Chapter will host the Fifth Annual People Helping People Walkathon from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 12, in downtown Millville. This event is open to all Cumberland County residents. Thomas Denning, Lakeside ...
Ocean County College raises student costs $5 per credit
Feb 01, 2008; ... TOMS RIVER - Ocean County College students will pay $1 to $9 more per credit-hour starting this summer to cover a 7.5 percent budgetary increase, college trustees decided this week. County residents face a $5 hike; out-of-county, $6; out-of-state, $9. Senior citizens and ...
What's happening in your town
Feb 01, 2008 ... Bridgeton Opening reception at Gallery 50 A Bridgeton gallery will be hosting an opening reception from 6 to 9 p.m. today for an exhibit of work by local painter Anna Vosburgh. Vosburgh's show, titled "Expect the Unexpected," will be on view through Feb. 29 at Gallery ...
Eagleswood to start work on Cox Avenue in the spring
Feb 01, 2008; ... EAGLESWOOD TOWNSHIP - After three years and three phases of preparation, the township is almost ready to break ground on a long-awaited road project. Work on Cox Avenue is expected to begin some time in the spring. In 2005, the township began investigating how to fund a ...
Cumberland County honors
Feb 01, 2008 ... Students honored as 'Giraffe Heroes'Nine Vineland elementary public school students were honored Thursday, Jan. 31, as "Giraffe Heroes" for "having big hearts, sticking their necks out to help others, and for being persistent in pursuing their goals" at the George Luciano Center at ...
Ex-husband's crime, shared number costs patients their health facility in Vineland
Feb 01, 2008; ...VINELAND - For a long while, Simone Galletta says she had two remnants connecting her to her ex-husband: His last name, which she kept, and the Medicaid provider number left over from his running of a health-care business. She had met and married George Galletta in 1995. But by 1999, ...
Community: In your county
Feb 01, 2008 ... Backyard Bird Count Feb. 15 to 18The annual Great Backyard Bird Count will take place Feb. 15 to 18. The event is organized by the Audubon Society and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to gather data on birds in the winter for science and conservation efforts, and to keep track on bird ...
Slow economy paves the way for bargains
Feb 01, 2008; ... WOODBINE - Two modest road projects in the borough received unusual attention Thursday. More than 20 companies from as far as Ocean and Camden counties asked for applications and 16 filed bids to pave a parking lot by the community center. "For a job of this size, we're usually ...
Community: happenings
Feb 01, 2008 ... Eating out face=+Bold; PANCAKE BREAKFASTface=-Bold; from 7 to 11 a.m. Feb. 2 at Pinelands United Methodist Church, 3551 Nesco Road, (Route 542), face=+Bold; Nesco, Mullica Townshipface=-Bold; . face=+Bold; PANCAKE SUPPER face=-Bold; from 5 to 7 p.m. Feb. 5 at Church of the ...
Ocean County road projects may affect traffic
Feb 01, 2008 ... Ocean County road projects may affect traffic face=+Bold; Road projects are expected to affect traffic in the areas listed below, according to the Ocean County Office of Engineering..face=-Bold; --Lane shifts along Lacey Road from Manchester Avenue to Route 9 in Lacey Township ...
Millville residents sign up for fight against gangs, crime
Feb 01, 2008; ... MILLVILLE - A solution is offered on three slips of paper: one pink, one yellow and one orange. At the second Concerned Citizens Meeting, held two weeks after the first, community leaders shifted their message from a demand for action and instead encouraged residents to sign up for ...
Black History month events
Feb 01, 2008 ... face=+Bold; n Meet the Authors face=-Bold; - One Hundred One Women Plus presents its annual Black Cultural Heritage Program from noon to 3:30 p.m. Feb. 9 at Carnegie Library Center, Martin Luther King Boulevard and Pacific Avenue, face=+Bold; Atlantic Cityface=-Bold; . The authors, with local ...
Local 54 leader won't endorse candidate in Atlantic City primary
Feb 01, 2008; ... ATLANTIC CITY - With an expected battle for the mayor of a casino resort, many gaming employees may keep to the sidelines during the 2008 campaign. At least that's what casino labor leader Robert McDevitt intends to do. The president of Local 54 of UNITE-HERE said Thursday that he will ...
Correction
Feb 01, 2008 ... face=+Bold; Region:face=-Bold; Two juveniles were arrested Jan. 15, three days after the beating of a woman outside the Egg Harbor ...
Suit against ex-police chief costs Atlantic City at least $780,000
Feb 01, 2008; ... Another lawsuit, another big payout for Atlantic City. A jury decided in federal court in Camden this week that the city Police Department's then-Chief Arthur Snellbaker retaliated against one of his deputy chiefs, "icing" William Glass out of the job in which he he had served for 27 ...
Cumberland Regional argues way to state Mock Trial finals
Feb 01, 2008; ... BRIDGETON - Theresa Hunsberger is used to being in a courtroom. An attorney from Hopewell Township, Hunsberger has argued cases before a family court judge numerous times. Her presence Wednesday at the Cumberland County Courthouse, though, was for a different purpose. Sitting ...
Today/Margate
Feb 01, 2008 ... TODAY/ MARGATE --face=+Bold; The issue:face=-Bold; Margate's City Commission has scheduled a special meeting for this morning to discuss a health-insurance contract for city employees. --face=+Bold; Why it matters:face=-Bold; Health insurance for workers is a major expense ...
Community: In your town
Feb 01, 2008 ... Atlantic CityWinter coat drive at City Hall The Department of Health and Human Services is accepting donations of winter coats through Feb. 8 to be distributed to those in need Feb. 14. Coats may be dropped off from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday at Room 502 in Atlantic ...
Atlantic City school board solicitor charged with DUI
Feb 01, 2008; ... MOORESTOWN - The Atlantic City Board of Education's solicitor was arrested and charged last week with allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol after police found his 2007 BMW lying atop a mailbox it had knocked over, according to authorities. John B. Comegno II, 35, was also ...
Pleasantville council picks Callaway replacement
Feb 01, 2008; ... PLEASANTVILLE - There wasn't much to say. City Council unanimously chose Deveraux Blount to fill the seat vacated by Councilman Maurice "Pete" Callaway after he pleaded guilty to a federal bribery charge stemming from his time on the city's school board. The special meeting was held ...
St. Aug. boys escape with win over P'ville
Feb 01, 2008; ... PLEASANTVILLE - The St. Augustine Prep boys basketball team will remember how it played for a stretch in the third quarter Thursday night. The Hermits would do well to forget the rest of the game. St. Augustine beat Pleasantville 76-66 in a sloppy but sometimes entertaining ...
UFC co-founder brings new league to A.C.
Feb 01, 2008; ... Ultimate Fighting Championship co-founder Bob Meyrowitz is coming back to Atlantic City in April as head of a new mixed martial arts organization. Meyrowitz, who helped oversee the UFC from 1993-2000, will bring his new YAMMA Pit Fighting (YPF) league to Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort on ...
Correction/Clarification
Feb 01, 2008 ... face=+Bold; Region:face=-Bold; Millville Police Officer Marvin Vazquez is a graduate of the Gloucester County Police ...
ACCC women beat Valley Forge College
Feb 01, 2008 ... From Press staff reports The Atlantic Cape Community College girls basketball club team shut down Valley Forge Christian College (Pa.) in the second half to earn a 71-65 win on Thursday.Julie Clock and Brittany Baum led all scorers with 26 points each for ACCC. Baum also ...
EHT police looking for suspects in school bus thefts
Feb 01, 2008; ... Egg Harbor Township police are still hunting for the suspects who swiped five yellow school buses from a West Atlantic City bus company and damaged the vehicles while driving around three townships. The buses were stolen from Integrity Transportation Company, 7016 Black Horse Pike, ...
Longport gives poor marks to Margate's discounted tuition offer
Feb 01, 2008; ... Margate's school district is offering students who don't live in the town a rare bargain in today's education market - a 33 percent discount on the cost of paying privately to go to the local public schools. But if the school board's vote to cut out-of-town tuition from this year's ...
Whelan asks what happens to airport under Corzine's debt plan
Feb 01, 2008; ... TRENTON - State Sen. James Whelan said he is concerned that the governor's plan for paying down the state's debt by turning over the operation of the state's toll roads to a nonprofit could leave Atlantic City International Airport without a way to pay for future expansion. Government ...
Police suspect road rage in Stafford crash
Feb 01, 2008 ... From Press staff reports STAFFORD TOWNSHIP - Police said Thursday they are looking for witnesses in a possible act of road rage on Route 72 near Mermaid Drive. Brian Drayton, 46, of Stafford Township was driving west on Route 72 at about 4:41 p.m. Wednesday, when his SUV came ...
Longport looking for part-time 'administrator'
Feb 01, 2008; ... LONGPORT - The borough is looking to hire a new administrator - but not face=+Italic; thatface=-Italic; kind of administrator.The "administrator" title in the headline of a 20-hour-per-week job now posted on a Borough Hall bulletin board is closer to an administrative secretary than ...
Hotel to connect Rowan to Glassboro
Feb 01, 2008; ... GLASSBORO - A new hotel will anchor redevelopment efforts to better connect Rowan University with downtown Glassboro.Borough officials announced this week that they signed a contract with a developer to build a 100-room Holiday Inn Express and Suites east of Rowan on Route 322, where ...
Ad not meant to be misleading on TV screen sizes
Feb 01, 2008 ... face=+Bold; Dear Consumer Action:face=-Bold; face=+Bold; I was annoyed to see a major retailer's printed advertisement that showed two different HDTV flat panel television sets for sale. One was a 32-inch and the other a 40-inch. The bigger television showed more of the simulated ...
Police rescue man who jumped off bridge into the Maurice River
Feb 01, 2008; ... COMMERCIAL TOWNSHIP - A man jumped off the Maurice River Bypass on Thursday but survived the fall without serious injury.State Police declined to release the name of the man who leaped from the bridge over the Maurice River in Commercial Township.Police said they responded ...
Police ask for help in Dennis Twp. hit-and-run
Feb 01, 2008 ... From Press staff reports DENNIS TOWNSHIP - State Police are asking for the public's help in finding a pickup truck that struck a bicyclist on Sea Isle Boulevard on Jan. 24 and fled. The bicyclist, Gerald F. Dearie, was injured in the accident, reported to police at 11:06 p.m ....
New trash hauler takes over in Ocean City
Feb 01, 2008; ... OCEAN CITY - Blue Diamond Disposal will take over residential trash pickup today from Waste Management. If things go well, homeowners and businesses in Ocean City should not notice any difference, site manager Jim Flatley said. "Maybe just cleaner trucks and happier workers," ...
Man indicted in shooting, robbery of KFC manager in Millville
Feb 01, 2008; ... BRIDGETON - A grand jury on Wednesday handed up a six-count indictment against a Millville man charged with shooting a restaurant manager last year during a robbery. Dallas H. Preston Jr., 32, of East Broad Street in Millville, is lodged at the Cumberland County Jail on $500,000 bail ....
Somers Point students learn ABCs of bully prevention
Feb 01, 2008; ... At the Dawes Avenue School in Somers Point, it's good to be a "G." "The message we're sending today is that we're not going to let a bully in our front door," said Principal Doreen Lee. "We are going to be Gs." "Anti-Bully Day" on Jan. 25 was part of a program designed to teach ...
Coast Guard rescues three fishermen off Cape May
Feb 01, 2008; ... CAPE MAY - The U.S. Coast Guard rescued three commercial fishermen, two of whom needed medical attention, after their boat started taking on water 44 miles off this resort Thursday. The Coast Guard diverted a helicopter on a routine flight Thursday morning to search for the 72.8-foot ...
Middle Twp. man admits helping murder suspect
Feb 01, 2008; ... CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE - A Rio Grande man admitted Thursday that he helped murder suspect Seth Cooper evade capture after the Dec. 10, 2006, shooting of John Cavicchio III in Middle Township. Cavicchio, 23, was shot once in the head in a wooded area off Pennsylvania Avenue and died the ...
Vineland police seek bank robber
Feb 01, 2008; ... VINELAND - Police spent late Thursday searching for a man in connection with a bank robbery that occurred just before 12:30 p.m. According to a police, staff at Colonial Bank on South Lincoln Avenue said a man walked into the branch and presented a note to a teller that demanded money ...
Latest state marketing effort to prominently feature A.C.
Feb 01, 2008; ... ATLANTIC CITY - The resort will feature prominently in the state's latest marketing effort meant to hook new tourists and pump revenue into the statewide $37.6 billion tourism industry, New Jersey's top tourism official said Thursday."Atlantic City is year-round, so you're going to be ...
O.C., SWAT team make drug arrest
Feb 01, 2008 ... From Press staff reports OCEAN CITY - City police and the Cape May County Regional SWAT team arrested a city man Wednesday during a raid on a home on Haven Avenue. Police charged Jesus Baker, 29, of the 300 block of Haven Avenue with distributing drugs within a public housing ...
Cape, Boardwalk banks finalize their merger deal
Feb 01, 2008 ... From Press staff reports Cape Bancorp and Boardwalk Bancorp - once rivals in Atlantic and Cape May counties - closed on a merger deal Thursday, Cape officials said. The deal is worth a reported $101 million, for which the Cape May Court House-based Cape Bancorp has acquired the ...
Lower Cape May girls team forced to swim against boys
Feb 01, 2008; ... BUENA VISTA TOWNSHIP - The Lower Cape May Regional High School girls swim team is pretty good. Some of the girls have made state cut-off times and have been competitive in some of meets.But it's hard to notice that they swim well because they don't win too often. The problem is the ...
Battle by the Bay preview
Feb 01, 2008 ... WHEN/WHERE: Tonight, Saturday and Sunday at Atlantic City High School, Black Horse Pike TICKETS: $9 per session THE SCHEDULE: face=+Bold; Tonight, Session A<HLN></HLN> 7 p.m.: face=-Bold; Bishop Loughlin, N.Y. vs. Linden (Union County) face=+Bold; 8:30 p.m.: ...
Feb. 1 high school schedule
Feb 01, 2008 ... face=+Bold; BOYS BASKETBALLface=-Bold; face=+Bold; Battle by the Bayface=-Bold;at Atlantic City face=+Bold; 7 p.m.face=-Bold;Bishop Laughlin (N.Y.) vs. Linden face=+Bold; 8:30 p.m.face=-Bold;Holy Spirit vs. Atlantic ...
Swimming roundup: Tara Wuko, Dan Flynn lead Wildwood Catholic over Middle
Feb 01, 2008 ... From Press staff reports Tara Wuko and Dan Flynn each won two individual events to help the Wildwood Catholic coed swimming team defeat host Middle Township 108-62 in a Cape-Atlantic League meet Thursday. Wuko won the 200-yard individual medley and the 500 freestyle, while ...
Boys basketball roundup: Vineland eliminates O.C. from playoff hunt
Feb 01, 2008 ... From Press staff reports The Vineland High School boys basketball team beat host Ocean City 55-42 in a Cape-Atlantic League game Thursday, eliminating the Red Raiders from qualifying for the South Jersey Group III tournament. Ocean City dropped to 8-10 on the year. Vineland's ...
Bowling roundup: Lacey Township boys defeat Central newsal, Monsignor Donovan
Feb 01, 2008 ... From Press staff reports The Lacey Township High School boys bowling team won two matches Thursday, defeating Central Regional and Monsignor Donovan each 2-1 at Ocean Lanes in Lakewood. Ray Robinson led Lacey against Central with a high game of 257, and Dan Lesniakowski had a ...
Fab freshmen are quick studies in tough Cape-Atlantic League
Feb 01, 2008; ... The chants grew louder with each acrobatic layup and 3-pointer that Isaiah Morton sank against St. Joseph on Tuesday night. "He's a freshman!" the St. Augustine Prep boys basketball fans shouted. "He's a freshman!" Morton finished with 30 points and St. Augustine won 64-51. The ...
Southern's Jill Smith to run in girls mile at Millrose Games on Friday
Feb 01, 2008 ... From Press staff reports Jill Smith will try to boost her reputation as one of the nation's top scholastic distance runners tonight. The Southern Regional High School junior will run in the girls mile at the Millrose Games in New York's Madison Square Garden. Smith ...
My life: Southern newsal's Jill Smith likes view out front
Feb 01, 2008 ... Jill Smith will step back onto the track and the self-proclaimed "World's Most Famous Arena" tonight. The Southern Regional High School junior will run the girls mile in the prestigious Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Smith finished fourth in last ...
ACCC women beat Valley Forge College
Feb 01, 2008 ... From Press staff reports The Atlantic Cape Community College girls basketball club team shut down Valley Forge Christian College (Pa.) in the second half to earn a 71-65 win on Thursday.Julie Clock and Brittany Baum led all scorers with 26 points each for ACCC. Baum also ...