The City of North Wildwood has terminated its contract with waste removal company GME after the company's CEO threatened to "leave trash in the streets" if the city did not pay it two to three times more than the agreed-upon contract amount, city officials say.
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NORTH WILDWOOD Bob Gill watched from an observation deck on 7th Avenue on Thursday as crews reshaped his neighborhood beach.
The North Wildwood resident was in the same spot the day before, as heavy equipment took a massive pile of sand lining a beachfront walkway and spread it across the badly eroded north end.
“This is something I think every kid dreamed of doing,” he said while watching the massive trucks load up with sand to distribute near the tide line.
Not long ago, a heavily planted dune protected much of the stretch between the end of the Boardwalk at 16th Street north. North Wildwood Mayor Patrick Rosenello described it as a maritime forest, and longtime visitors will recall dense patches of cedar, bayberry and other plants set on tall sand dunes.
North Wildwood is hoping for a lifeboat from the federal government after its spent the last several years using taxpayer dollars to combat beach erosion.
The last hope for a St. Patrick’s Day parade this season was dashed with the cancellation of the parade in North Wildwood.
In a normal year it would be the season for parades across the state. But with Gov. Phil Murphy s executive order limiting outdoor gatherings to just 25 it was impossible to hold a parade. One by one, the parades from Belmar to Seaside Heights to Woodbridge to Hamilton were called off.
The Angelsea Irish Society, which organizes the North Wildwood parade, initially planned to hold their parade on Saturday and take advantage of a loophole of sorts in which there was no limit for outdoor religious gatherings.