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Article: Avalon Island seeks to secede from Middle Township, N.J.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- August 16, 2004
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Byline: Jacqueline L. Urgo
Aug. 16--MIDDLE TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- The 150 houses look like most of the sherbet-hued vacation homes in neighboring Avalon.
The view of the Intracoastal Waterway from the marina is about the same as the one from Avalon. Even the name screams Avalon.
But Avalon Manor isn't Avalon.
The two-square-mile bay island is part of 72-square-mile, betwixt-and-between Middle Township, a mainland Cape May County municipality.
And most of the 290 residents on this pocket of land at the foot of a bridge leading to the Avalon barrier island would like that to change.
In a lawsuit filed on behalf of 250 ...