Home for the holiday Coast Guard Operation Fireside

Basic training with the U.S. Coast Guard is tough, but more than 600 recruits were able to take a break from their rigorous basic training and spend Thanksgiving Day with 100 host families and community…

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Many of the best things in Cape May are free

In a previous column, I wrote about how tourists will stand on a corner, iPhone in one hand and a colorful street map in the other. It’s difficult to tell whether they are reading text…

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Coast Guard graduates take additional training

The Coast Guard is developing a week-long course to help new enlisted members transition to military life, including adapting to being away from home, working as a team, and other aspects of military life. Around…

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Jazz, birdsong fill the air around Cape May in May

The time of year when you must pick and choose what to do around town is fast approaching. The Coast Guard Community Festival, Exit Zero Jazz Festival, and the New Jersey Audubon Birding Festival all…

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The Green Book of Travel for Black People

Lining the walls with little-known history, a new Carroll Gallery exhibit at the Emlen Physick Estate opened on the weekend of Martin Luther King, Jr. The exhibit explores how Black travelers used The Green Book…

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