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Chief Riggin of the Pleasantville Police Department is asking for support to install ShotSpotter gunfire sensors around the city, which cost money. There’s a question on the ballot in November, and they’re having an Information Session at the middle school September 10.
Two Atlantic City beaches are under an advisory for bacteria levels. On Air Show day too… Seth Grossman said the KKK was never “active” in New Jersey, or something, and told a guy at an NAACP event his “history was fake” and he’d been “brainwashed with every Hollywood movie, every media thing, the crap they’re teaching in schools,” etc. for thinking otherwise. “Remember, the KKK was dead after the Civil War.”
A few weeks ago, Seth told me the KKK was a backlash to rising Black wealth in the 1920s, so he can’t even keep his fake history straight.
Nor’Easter Nick displayed his surprisingly extensive railroad knowledge yesterday in pointed questioning of NJ Transit Executive Director Kevin Corbett, in town to do damage control since they’re shutting the AC to Philly line for the next however many months. Corbett says the trains will be back in the New Year, but Nick points out that the executive director has also said that NJTransit is unlikely to complete the work needed by that date.
The Ventnor Twin movie theater will reopen next spring (yep, as a movie theater), Nanette LoBiondo of Downbeach.com reports. The new owners also run the Harbor Square Theater in Stone Harbor, so they (hopefully) know what they’re getting in to.
The Press of AC has a cool story on the Baltic Avenue Canal, an old-fashioned flood-control system, that’s been sitting fallow for 50 years but was reopened.
The Press of AC’s Claire Lowe has a great story on the lack of candidates for school-board elections. Lowe reports there are 82 races in the Press’s coverage area, and in 17 of them, there aren’t enough candidates to fill the open seats.
Egg Harbor City ok’d a redevelopment plan that would put a medical marijuana grow facility at a boat-building, erm, building that’s currently owned by Dr. Trocki. All this is contingent on state licensing though.
I’m old enough to remember when marijuana liberalization was supposed to benefit African-Americans, as in economically, since non-African-Americans have been locking them up for decades for this thing that’s now going to be a big business.
Samaritan Gets Car Stolen
Not to make light of this but joyriding is an actual thing you can be charged with? Fall is Coming
Read Dave O’Sullivan’s feature on the Oakcrest football squad and their 21 seniors, looking to get back into playoff contention. “Practices are a hoot because we’ve been together for so long, but I love it, it’s all positive vibes.”
Nature Watch
Look, a video of a waterspout! It was off LBI. Toxic Sites, Thirty Years Later
Not too long ago there was a big, nasty cancer cluster in a town not too far from here (Tom’s River).
The Trentonian reports on yet another lawsuit against Stockton claiming sex assault cases that were handled improperly.
In this one, after attempting suicide, the victim started seeing a mental health counselor. She ended up meeting the counselor’s son, who, allegedly, assaulted her.
The AC Press has details on the mandatory conference that applicants seeking to open medical marijuana dispensaries had to attend yesterday, as part of their application for a license from the state.