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Herald & Lantern 20 January '82

Digest (From Page 1) public bearing on their plarj will lead to an unacceptable .agreement with the Pmelands Commission Costly Dredging SKA ISLE CITY - After more than , two years of lobbying to have local back bay lagoons dredged, residents, commer cm I fishermen and pleasure boaters here should.finally see the work completed by

early June

City Commission nwarded a $297,506 contract Jan 12 to Foundation and Struc tures of Tuckahoe'for the dredging proled $265,000 bond ordinance was also introduced to add to the $110,000.capital improvement money already set aside lor the project Public hearing on the ordinance is Jan 26 Beach Funds OK’d

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contract doesn't include the must work clause and said the union had no part in the workers' decision not to work Waiting on Trolley WILDWXKJD - While the governing body in Wildwood Crest likes the idea. City Commissioners here have decided against throwing their support behind the idea of a summertime trackless trolley system between the two communities until the.v can further study the proposal l^ocal officials are concerned that the system, proposed by Ideal businessman Michael and Pat'DiAntonio, may threaten the ccdnomic survival of Jhe existing Five Mile Beach Electric Railway, owned by Gilbert Ramagosa. • The DiAntonio's are petitioning the state Board of Public Utilities for permission to establish the system using Victorian-style vehicles, which they, feel . would add a valuable mass transit system to the island and assist in the pro- . motion of tourism

TRENTON Outgoing Gov. Brendan Byrne signed into law Jap 13 legislation that releases the last of the $9.6 million available for shore protection projects thru the 1977 Reaches find Harbor Bond Aid. The move paves'the way for funding of the $3 4 million, longrange beach replenishment program expected to be (an in Ocean City 1963 Shore communities $ accepting state funds are expected to contribute between 25 and 40 per cept of the cost Boro Fires 18 AVALQN Eighteen employees in| the Pphlic Works Dept hbre lost their jobs last week when they refused to clear borough streets during Thursday night’s snowfall, because of a contract dispute between them and the borough Borough solicitor Robert Fineberg said the men were fired because they violated a clause in the contract requiring them to work in emergency situations. But Sam Kelly, union representative for Local 1984 of the International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trade claimed the

Iron Starts Fire WHITESBORO - A fire that apparently started when an iron .was left on damaged a home at George and Dunbar Sts here early last Tues morning leaving three homeless. I^acey Keefe jfnd his two teenage daughters weren't at home when the fire that, damaged theil threebedroom house bdfean about 7:40 a m. According to reports. Virginia Corobott, a friend of the family was inside the building when the fire started but escaped without injury. Some 25 firefighters from Rio Grande and Court House resAnded and the fire was extinguishedTjuickly. the bddroom where the fire began was destroyed and th£ rest of the house received extensive water, smhke and heat damage. « Fire Injures Child LOWER TWP. —*A fire at the Cold Spring Apartinepts heft* early Sunday lhat is being investigated by both towpship and county arson officials damaged a vacant first floor apartment and resulted in a 2-year-old child beinjl

treated at the hospital for heat bums on her arms and forearms. According to reports, Jennifer Spiegel, was rescued from a second floor apartment by firemen as the blaze broke thru the downstairs apartment and made its way into the hallway and stairway leading to the second floor. 8863,000 Increase UPPER TWP. — Residents here will probably be paying more than double their curent school tax if voters in April appfove the local school board's tentative $4,855,974 budget for the 1982-82 school year. Up $852,570 from this year’s budget and over the 5 per cent cap by $100,135, the proposed budget's irtcreases are attributed to greater enrollment in the township's two schools and inflfitioif* Based on township ratable figures for 1981, the proposed budget could jump the current school tax rate of 28 cents per $100 of assessed valuation to 58 cents. Funds to Increase TRENTON Based upon a proposed formula for distributing federal block grant funds to New Jersey schools that is expected to be acted otkby the state Dept, of Education Feb.u, Cape May County school districts will pick up an additional $95,436 in federalfunds. ^ While most local districts in thtTcounty will see some increase, Lower Cape May . Regional will get an additional $19,876, Lower Township's share’s up $13,710 and Middle Twp. count on $23,423 extra. The state Department of Education has the respohsibility, of administering the block grant that includes federal aid for some 30 separate programs. Under the new means of receiving federal monies, New Jersey overall will get $10.5 million — a total $1.8 million less than it received under the current categorical grant program. Vetoes School Tax

TRENTON — Outgoing Gov. Brendan Byrne vetoed a bill that would have changed the way taxes to support the Lower Cape May Regional school district are apportioned between the regional system's three constituent districts —

Cape May, Lower Twp. and West Cape May. According to Cape May city manager Fred Coldren, if the new fortpula had been approved — a formulh that would have applied only to regional districts including non-taxable federal property — the average Cape May taxpayer’s bill would have increased by $128 in 1982. .Whjle the bill’would have required Cape May to pay retroactively about $96,000 m6re for the regioanl system in 1981-82, Lower Twp. would have paid $89,853 less and West Cape May 6,302 less, according to Coldren.

BEFORE THE SNOW got too deep last week, you could still ride a bike thru it. It was fun having the cold flakes blow in your face as you pedaled, as this youngster finds out on a rural roqd In Lower Township.

Fate of Rails (From Pagei) Jersey (TNJ). a wholly-owned subsidiary of N.J. Transit, is being provided on both branched of the line. TNJ would continue to ojfcrate thdbus service if the proposal is approved. NJT noted that although its staff has recommended termination of rail servied on the two PRSL branches, final dbcisiori will be made by the NJT Board of Directors after they study the minutes of the public hearings. Copies of the justification for proposed termination will be available at the hearing sites next week. They are also available from NJT, which is headquartered in Newark (201) 648-7300.

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