13 Herald - Lantern - Dispatch 11 December '85

SHOP AT HOME IN CAPE MAY COUNTY

/3§^news ||^7 DIGEST y/7 / The Week's J! J! J! Top Stories (From Page 1) Township Committee race was confirmed by a recount, filed a challenge alleging four counts of campaign misconduct. He contends one or more of the registration checkers violated regulations, illegal votes were received from 12 residents of a senior citizens' home, legal votes were rejected and that Creamer offered or gave a voter a reward for voting for him. Permit Laic Delayed WILDWOOD - Municipal Clerk Peter P. Yecco said a motatorium "definitely will be placed" on an ordinance, requiring inspections and a certificate of continued occupancy prior to the sale or transfer of properties here, at a 11 a.m. council meeting today. The action should have occured Monday, but that meeting was rescheduled when council President Edward F. Herman and Councilwoman Karen Dougherty traveled to Trenton to protest the proposed one percent hotelmotel shore protection tax bill. The moratorium should last at least until Jan. 6, Yecco said. Council is trying to redefine the ordinance, which has been called "naked and skimpy." 4 Hurt in Crash CREST HAVEN — Four people were injured late Monday night when a tractor-trailer driven by Robert Harpster, 22. of North Cape May collided with a car driven by Thomas Miller, 19, of Avalon on the Garden State Parkway at the Stone Harbor exit. Miller was listed in serious but stable condition at Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital. His passenger. Thesesa Robinson, 28. of Court House, was treated and released, as was Harpster s wife, Lisa. Fire Fatality SOUTH SEAVILLE - Fred Robinson. 56, died Monday morning in a fire that destroyed his house on South Seaville Road, Members of volunteer fire companies from Dennis, Ocean View. Belleplain. Goshen and the Dennis Township Rescue Squad answered the alarm. The fire, was reported at 6: 13 a.m., was spotted by Tom Dramis, who called in the alarm from a nearby house. Moving Schoolhouse? COURT HOUSE - The Middle Township Planning Board will hold a . public hearing to consider a county application to move the former Green Creek School to the County Park South. Del Haven, for use as a meeting room, storage, and an office. The meeting will be held at the Mechanic Street Municipal Building here Dec. 17 at 7:30 p.m. Retrofit Hearing OCEAN CITY — A public hearing on state fire code retrofit regulations will be held 11 a.m. Dec. 18 at the Flanders Hotel on 11th street here. Five state officials will attend the hearing, which may be the last before the regulations are approved by the state Fire Safety Commission. They would require public assembly buildings built after 1977 to be equipped with fire containment devices. Are a legislators and business people are lobbying for a "sensitive and sympathetic" implementation of the code. Recycling Interest SWAINTON — Eleven municipalities are interested in the county Municipal Utilities Authority's (MUA) proposed regional recycling program. Avalon, Cape May. Cape May Point, North Wildwood, Stone Harbor, West Wildwood, Wildwood, Ocean City, Sea Isle City, Upper Township and West Cape May

have said they-would join. The MUA said i it will start the program if recycling were made mandatory and 75 percent of . residents in municipalities participate. The MUA is deciding whether to spend $800,000 to finance a processing center. j I Saying Uncle i NORTH WILDWOOD - Mayor Lewis ! Vinci said last week that county Health ■, Coordinator Louis Lemanna had political 1 motivations for disputing a study that i says this city's sewage treatment plant was not the primary source of pollution that closed beaches last summer. A longtime political rival of Vinci's, former Mayor Anthony Catanoso, is Lamanna's uncle. Vinci charged Lamanna sought to embarass him for problems that actually occured because of neglect during Catanoso's terms. The study in question, paid for by the city and prepared by Chyun Associates of Trenton, says heavy rainfall and state dredging were the main culprits. No Chance of Change SEAVILLE — There's no chance of group home for mentally handicapped men will be relocated from 7 Prosit Lane to 1710 Shore Road here, according to Bonnie Beach of state Department of Developmental Disabilities <DDD>. Opponents of the former prefer the latter location, but the DDD has already been guaranteed $100,000 to buy the Prosit property where $38,000 in renovations are planned. Born to Run TRENTON — Assemblyman Joseph Patero's six-verse ditty. "I Like NewJersey Best," is his choice for state song He said the tune has gained support of some state officials. The song, which refers to the state's "refineries" and "dineries," Bruce Springsteen and the i Turnpike, was approved last Thursday by ' the General Assembly State Government i Committee and sent to the full Assembly ( for consideration The song was recorded > by John Pizzarelli of Bound Brook and already has some radio play. Patero \ said. | Much Ado About Concrete OCEAN CITY — The State Bureau of ' Coastal Resources said last month it planned to cite the city for dumping I concrete at a pistol range here. But bureau regional supervisor John Higgins ' said the 60 yards of concrete can stay \ where it is. Why? The city owns the | range. Higgins got involved when he received reports of dumping in a wetlands area. Neighbor Killed Cat j MARMORA — Daniel Bready of Old J Stagecoach Road here, was found guilty ' last Wednesday of asphyxiating Morris, a cat owned by neighbor Jane Ay who / testified she saw Bready racing his truck I engine with a hose from the tailpipe to a j box. Later, Ay said, she saw Bready put out a trash bag that contained Morris' ! remains. Municipal Court Judge Steven Kaplan fined Bready. who raises game 1 birds, $750 plus $50 in court costs, and imposed a six-month suspended sentence. | Bready's lawyer. Kyran Connor, said Bready still maintains his innocence and may appeal the verdict. 2 Killed , 3 Injured WEYMOUTH TOWNSHIP - Frank Lashley Jr., 18, of Tuckahoe and Edward Heifer, 17, of Court House, died from massive head and internal injuries when the car they were riding in struck a tree here last week. Five teens were injured in the crash on a straight stretch of road that involved no other cars. Frank Butto. 18, of Tuckahoe, the driver of the vehicle, was in stable condition at Newcomb Medical Center. Heifer's brother John, 18, and Butto's brother Philip, 16, were treated there and released. The Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office will decide if death-by-auto charges will be filed against Butto.

Neticork Probes Charges TRENTON — New Jersey's Public Broadcasting Authority members are looking into charges that Gov. Thomas H. Kean and his aides are trying to manage Jersey Network TV coverage and authority Executive Director Hendrix F.C. Niemann. Carl Golden, the governor's press secretary, said the administration isn't trying to control the state-financed news network, but is annoyed at the handling of stories about and his aides. Depending on its findings, the authority, whose members are appointed by Kean, could retain or fire Niemann. Mil A Hearings Tonight VILLAS — Members of the Lower Township Municipal Utilities Authority (MUA) are expected to adopt two resolutions, after a 7 p.m. caucus and public hearings today, that will revise sewer rates, raising some and lowering others. If adopted as expected, another resolution will eliminate discounts for excessive water use. Rate hearings will be held in the MUA administration building, 2900 Bayshore Rd. here. Call The Cops ERMA — Businessman Louis Lambert is offering a $100 reward for information about the theft of a life-size, heavyplastic lion taken from his well-known Christmas display on Tabernacle Road here Friday night. "It "Would take two men to pick it up," Lambert said Monday, puzzled by the theft from his $1,000 Summers" estate, and vandalism of the display early last month. Call Lower Township police with any information at 886-1619. Parade's Saturday NORTH CAPE MAY - Lower Township Rotary Club's fifth annual Township Rotary ciun s nun annum

Christmas Parade begins 7 p.m. Saturday at Breakwater Plaza and heads south on Bayshore Road to the North Cape May Shopping Center. Prizes will be awarded in several categories, including a cash grand prize and trophy for the best entry. Action 's Saturday VILLAS — Mayor Robert Fothergill of Lower Township will auction 29 municipal properties at 11 a.m. Saturday in Township Hall, 2600 Bayshore Rd. There will be no minimum bids. Driver Killed VILLAS — Sally A. Cuneo, 29, of Tomlin Avenue died of massive chest injuries in Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital late Thursday night just after her 1977 Plymouth Volare skidded off Fulling Mill Road in the rain and crashed into a tree between Star Avenue and Morris Road here. Free on Bail ERMA — Robert Gillis Sr., 68, of 752 Seashore Rd.. Lower Township, was free on $1,000 bail after his Friday arraignment for sexually assaulting a county youth. 15. A county investigator was trying to determine last week how often the Middle Township school bus driver allegedly victimized the boy who was one of Gillis' passengers, according to Capt. Robert Elwell of the county detectives

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