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Dormant casinos can be dangerous as the collapse of a chunk of the entranceway ceiling at the Atlantic Club showed earlier this week. Steve Ruddock of PlayNJ takes a look at Atlantic City’s other closed casinos and ponders on the lack of maintenance at Trump Plaza.
The Dorset Avenue Wawa: Good luck navigating that parking lot, but it was an institution, so when rumors of its impending closure began trickling out on social media a month or so ago, cold fear ran with them.
The leak that was spilling sewage into waterways near Bader Field in Atlantic City has been stopped, but repair work to the pipe is continuing, the Atlantic County Utilities Authority reported this morning. Water testing and monitoring in the area, as well as the precautionary suspension of shellfish harvesting, also continues.
The Atlantic County Utilities Authority is working around the clock to repair a leaking sewage main on the west side of Bader Field. As a precaution, shellfish harvesting in the waterways of Risley Channel, Dock Thorofare, Whirlpool Channel, Shelter Island Bay and Lakes Bay North of the Margate Bridge should be suspended. So far, water samples tested for elevated bacteria levels have come back within a normal range.
Atlantic City’s tourism district is home to New Jersey’s biggest needle exchange. The Oasis Drop In Center on Tennessee Avenue gives out thousands more needles than are returned each week.
Two pharmaceutical reps from Marlton and Moorestown pled guilty yesterday as part of an ongoing investigation into healthcare fraud in South Jersey, reports Lynda Cohen for BreakingAC. This time the Attorney General’s office did not release the plea agreements, but it did release the ‘informations’ for each plea.
Atlantic City’s Surf Stadium was filled last night with guests for a pop-up fundraiser for the city’s Boys & Girls Club, organized by a collection of South Jersey wunderkinder that formed a non-profit called 4AC x AC earlier this year.
From the steps of Patricia Harper’s Bungalow Park duplex you can look across the street through the gap in the houses and count three former casinos—the Revel, the Showboat, the Trump Taj Mahal—that were worth, not so long ago, well over $3 billion in total.
Spending on the battle for a senate seat in LD-3 is ramping up between incumbent Steve Sweeney (Democrat) and challenger Fred Grenier (a Republican with the surprise backing of the New Jersey Education Association). The NJEA threw its weight behind Grenier after falling out with Sweeney over several recent issues, NJSpotlight explains.
Rowan College at Burlington County has launched an internal investigation after a discrimination complaint was filed against its president Paul Drayton, who was placed on paid administrative leave last month. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Rowan’s trustees have hired an Ocean County-based criminal defense attorney to conduct an investigation into the complaint, which was filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.