WILDWOOD- The city is looking to clean up the look of the boardwalk and create a more “family friendly” atmosphere- by having visitors clean up their outfits.

At Wednesday’s commissioners meeting, the administration introduced an ordinance requiring shirts and shoes to be worn on the boardwalk, and banned pants or skirts worn low off the waist.

“I do believe the barometer of our community is based on the boardwalk,” Mayor Ernie Troiano said.

The Hereford Inlet Lighthouse is among the attractions along the Coastal Heritage Trail. Senators want the trail back under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service.

 A year and a half after the National Park Service lost management control of New Jersey’s Coastal Heritage Trail, New Jersey’s two senators have introduced legislation to reauthorize the trail as national parkland.

The legislation introduced by Democrats Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez during National Park Week, which was marked late last month, would return the trail to NPS jurisdiction through 2018. That would allow the NPS to provide support to the trail and to help visitors access its many attractions, which include Corson’s Inlet State Park, Cape May Point State Park and the Hereford Inlet Lighthouse in Cape May County.

Submitted/Chad Juros of Egg Harbor Township

EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP – Egg Harbor Township resident Chad Juros was diagnosed with leukemia in 1991 at age 3. Four years later, he relapsed and spent 17 months in the cancer ward, during which time his father, Dr. Donald Juros, kept his spirits up by teaching him magic tricks.

HAMILTON TOWNSHIP – The contract impasse that has been the focus of the past few school board meetings took a different turn at Tuesday’s meeting, as an increased number of vocal parents showed up to lend support to the teaching staff.

Members of the Hamilton Township Education Association, including teachers, paraprofessionals and school nurses, again packed the Michael Duberson Library at the William Davies Middle School for the May 21 meeting.

Patriotic events

ESTELL MANOR – The 29th Annual Atlantic County Veterans Memorial Program will be held 2 p.m. Friday, May 24 at the Atlantic County Veterans Cemetery, Route 50 in Estell Manor. 

Decorated U.S. Army combat veteran, Assemblyman Chris A. Brown, will be the keynote speaker for the memorial program which honors fallen, but not forgotten veterans.

 PLEASANTVILLE _ Even when they aren’t fighting fires, members of the Pleasantville fire department are fighting to save lives.

During the weekend of April 27-28, the Pleasantville Professional Firefighters IAFF Local No. 2616 raised more than $2,000 for diabetes research.