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The principal of Pleasantville High School, Edward Bonek, was arrested yesterday on charges of possession and distribution of child pornography.
He’d just finished his first year as principal. Before that he was interim principal. Before that vice principal.
The Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office put out a statement Tuesday on investigations into sexual assaults of Stockton University students, of which there are four now, citing “concerns raised by the public and the media.”
So much real estate news in the City of Atlantic City! Amy Rosenberg has a long interview with Wasseem Boraie, the developer of the 255 unit multi-family project on what used to be Pauline’s Prairie. It has a pool. I didn’t know it had a pool. This changes everything!
New Jersey Transit is shutting down the AC to Philly train line for four months, effective September 4, to install safety systems I think they were supposed to put in months ago? The line needs to close not for the work to happen, but so they can move personnel from here to the north, to help run additional services while work happens up there. NJTransit knows better than anyone how the North/South divide works in New Jersey.
Statewide eviction filings dropped to their lowest levels in more than a decade, according to the valuable NJ Spotlight, but the picture in South Jersey is less rosy. In Atlantic County, filings are up 5.7% year-over-year. In Salem County, they’re up 7.5%.
Stockton sold Seaview for $21 million to one of those collections of letters with the word “capital” appended. ABC Capital or EFG Capital or whatever. Look, the point is that the socialists are coming for your plastic guns. The Press of AC’s Vincent Jackson has an ace report on this year’s blueberry season, which is winding to a close. Since blueberries are picked by hand, by immigrants, this bullsh*t with the kids in cages at the border has naturally impacted the bottom line.
A federal judge ruled Atlantic City must pay nearly $679,000 to cover legal fees for Steven Stadler, who was beaten by police officers after he robbed a car wash on Albany Avenue.
Big Bob McDevit told the Press of AC that Local 54 feels vindicated in its fight with Carl Icahn now that Hard Rock has opened. McDevit said union members, “know in their heart that their fight brought this new beginning for Atlantic City,” David Danzis reports. The Founding Fathers definitely thought you should be able to make your own handgun out of the Internet and some melted plastic. There’s a hundred-year-old pet cemetery off Shore Road in Linwood, but you have to read Big Joe Kelly’s story to found out where. For more feats of journalism from across the region, see below:
Four civil lawsuits alleging sexual assault have now been filed against Stockton University and an unauthorized Greek organization at the school. Stockton President Harvey Kesselman on Friday published a letter to students in which he wrote, “We are deeply concerned about the victims and committed to being as transparent as possible to keep the Stockton community informed of these serious matters.”
For those of you wondering what your Republican state senator Chris Brown thought of Seth Grossman’s views on race, he’s A-OK with them, according to the New Jersey Globe.