Avalon News

STONE HARBOR and Avalon tend to be the most tradition-bound places at the South Jersey Shore, even more than Cape May, with its Victorian claptrap.

The future for the states beaches after Sandy will discussed by experts during a free workshop held by the Jersey Shore Partnership.

Gov. Chris Christie conducts a town hall meting at St. Francis Community Center in Brant Beach-Long Beach Township April 30, 2013.

Mary Elaine Menkins, 74, passed away peacefully on April 25, 2013, in Paoli Hospital.

Cape May County Freeholder Will Morey said that portions of Ocean Drive in the Avalon, which had been damaged during Hurricane Sandy, were expected to re-open late Friday afternoon.

Any other year, by mid-April, Jewish Family Service of Atlantic and Cape May Counties in Margate would have lined up at least three houses for its annual August house tour, and would have good leads for another three or four.