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25/06/2025

ROAD CLOSED - MIMOSA DRIVE. will be CLOSED - temporarily for an ongoing fire investigation. please avoid there area for essential personnel to respond

25/06/2025

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Northern Cape May County in southern New Jersey...

* Until 700 PM EDT.

* At 555 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Woodbine, or 12 miles west of Ocean City, moving southeast at 5 mph.

HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Minor damage to vehicles is possible. Wind damage to roofs, siding, trees, and power lines is possible.

21/06/2025

The jet noise was a 177th Fighter Wing flyover over BCMF

20/06/2025

WILDWOOD POLICE: BCMF venue will reopen at 9PM

19/06/2025

Canning House Lane will be CLOSED from approximately 7am to 5pm on Monday, June 23, 2025 and will continue through Thursday, June 26, 2025. The road will only be open to residents only. Thank you for your patience.

19/06/2025

Due to the incoming dangerous weather event, the Downtown Wildwood Music in the Plaza concert, featuring Roundhouse, has been cancelled! Be safe!

19/06/2025

One of the larger cells (currently a severe thunderstorm in Delaware) will bring severe weather to Wildwood/BCMF. Radar has an estimated arrival of 7:05 pm. Please take shelter. Police are now evacuating the festival.

19/06/2025

Thunderstorms are approaching the Cape. We should start seeing the first of it around 6:45 pm. Wildwood will probably be 7:05 or so.

19/06/2025

Severe Thunderstorm Watch until 09:00PM

18/06/2025

For Immediate Release – June 18, 2025

Cape May Court House, New Jersey - Cape May County Prosecutor Jeffrey H. Sutherland and Chief Tracey Super of the Middle Township Police Department announce the arrest of Robert Seney, age 36, a resident of West Atlantic Avenue in the Cape May Court House section of Middle Township, NJ.

On June 18, 2025, the Cape May County Prosecutor’s Office Gangs, Guns, and Narcotics Task Force concluded a cooperative investigation into the distribution of controlled dangerous substances by Robert Seney.

On this same date, the Cape May County Prosecutor’s Office Gangs, Guns, and Narcotics Task Force, along with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Middle Township Police Department-Major Crimes Unit and the Cape May County Regional SWAT Team executed Court-authorized search warrants on the residence, and motor vehicle Robert Seney.

As a result of these searches, methamphetamine in an amount less than ½ ounce, various types of drug paraphernalia related to the distribution of CDS and 45ACP caliber ammunition was seized.

Robert Seney was charged with one (1) count of Possession with intent to Distribute CDS, a crime of the 3rd degree; one (1) count of Possession of CDS, a crime of the 3rd degree; one (1) count of Possession with Intent to Distribute Drug Paraphernalia, a crime of the 4th degree; one count of a certain person not to possess ammunition, a crime of the 4th degree; one (1) count of Distribution of CDS within a school zone, a crime of the 3rd degree and one (1) count of Distribution of CDS within 500 feet of a public place, a crime of the 2nd degree. *

Robert Seney was processed and lodged in the Cape May County Correctional Facility pending Court proceedings.

Individuals convicted of second degrees crimes are subject to a term of imprisonment of 5 to 10 years in New Jersey State Prison.

Prosecutor Sutherland stated his office will continue to work hand in hand with Federal and State partners along with the local municipalities to target anyone selling illegal, controlled, dangerous substances as well as the illegal possession of fi****ms. Prosecutor Sutherland also continues to urge the citizens of Cape May County to report any information regarding any criminal activity within the community, and that information can be reported to the Cape May County Prosecutor’s Office at 609-465-1135 or anonymously on the Cape May County Prosecutor's Office website at cmcpo.tips or through the Cape May County Sheriff’s Tip Line at cmcsheriff.net and click on anonymous tip, or to the Cape May County Crime Stoppers at 609-889-3597.

*Any charges are merely accusations, and the defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.

18/06/2025

Severe thunderstorm watch issued until Wednesday 7 PM.

15/06/2025