Atlantic City Baseball Unlikely to Happen in Summer
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Foles or Wentz? Eagles coach Doug Pederson says he won’t announce their starting QB until 90 minutes before the THE season opener. B1 maKING MONEY, getting taxed Atlantic City casino taxes rise for the third straight year, thanks to internet OFPRESS ATLANTIC CITY gaming, officials say. C2 Wednesday, August 29, 2018 // Serving Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland & southern Ocean counties // PressofAtlanticCity.com // Vol. MMXVIII, No. 241 $1.50 Atlantic City baseball unlikely to happen in summer ’19 DAVID DANZIS willing to bring baseball Professional Baseball Surf Stadium could Staff Writer back to Atlantic City, and former owner of once again be home to said a deal is not in the Atlantic City Surf, a a minor league baseball ATLANTIC CITY — place and “there’s a few 90-day window to facili- team, but former Negotiations to bring things that still need to tate a deal on its behalf. Atlantic City Surf owner baseball back to Surf happen.” He said he is “We’re not looking to Frank Boulton is looking Stadium are continuing, “cautiously optimistic” bring this back for a cou- past summer 2019 for any start date. See a but the prospect of see- a team could be playing ple of years,” Boulton timeline of the Surf ing a team on the field in Atlantic City by sum- said Tuesday. “We’re try- team on A4 and at next summer is unlikely. mer 2020. ing to bring this back for PressofAC.com. Frank Boulton, who The city’s governing decades to come. We was authorized in May body gave Boulton, who need to do it right, so it’s ERIN GRUGAN / Staff by City Council to find is a founding member PHOTOGRAPHER an ownership group of the Atlantic League of See BASEBALL, A4 STOCKTON PEEK Fundraiser foundation announces new board ERIN SERPICO & LAUREN CARROLL Staff Writers ATLANTIC CITY — The fundraising arm of Miss America announced chang- es to its Board of Trustees on Tuesday afternoon, including adding four members and appointing an interim chair. The changes to the Miss America Foundation come a day after the Miss Ameri- ca Organization announced several changes to its own board, includ- ing resigna- tions and the addition of six new mem- bers. ERIN GRUGAN / Staff PHOTOGRAPHER The chang- The Stockton University Atlantic City campus is just a more than a week away from holding classes to begin the fall semester in the brand new academic es to both PETROFF building, seen Tuesday. More than 90 students already have moved in and more than 400 more will unpack their belongings over the next week. boards come amid calls for the resigna- tions of the top two leaders of the organization, Chair- University’s Atlantic City campus just about ready woman Gretchen Carlson and CEO Regina Hopper, CLAIRE LOWE who continue to move for- Staff Writer ward with the “Miss Ameri- ca 2.0” mission and ATLANTIC CITY — Paint is still going rebranding. up on the walls, and desks and furni- Gregory A. Petroff, a part- ture are being delivered each day as the ner with New Jersey law countdown nears to the opening of firm Reitler Kailas & Rosen- Stockton University’s new campus next blatt LLC, will serve as week. interim chairman of the About two dozen media organiza- foundation’s board. Miss tions toured the interiors Tuesday of America 1991 Marjorie Vin- the Atlantic City campus buildings The highlight of the brand new student dorms School officials said all the details in the building cent-Tripp was announced before classes start. are the oceanfront views from the Boardwalk were carefully thought out, from color-coded as chairwoman of the foun- “This is an extraordinary time for the building. hallways to decorative accents. dation in May but resigned institution,” university President Har- in July. vey Kesselman said, recalling the open- “I am honored to serve as ing of the first Stockton site at the May- the interim chair of the flower Hotel on the Atlantic City Board- Miss America Foundation walk in 1971. “And we’ve evolved to this and thrilled to welcome extraordinary residence hall, academic such esteemed, highly cre- building.” dentialed and proven lead- About 90 students have already ers to the Board of Trust- moved into the new residential ees,” Petroff said in a state- ment. See STOCKTON, A3 The other new members added to the foundation MORE ONLINE The new dorms are set up like apartments, with The dorms for students living on the Atlantic City board are: See a photo gallery from the tour with this students having private space as well as shared campus are brand new, with each apartment story at PressofAC.com. common areas in each unit. containing a kitchen. See BOARD, A3 INDEX Classifieds ..B6-9, 12-14 $10M project for W’wood’s Rio Grande entrance delayed Comics ..............B10-11 Corrections ............. A3 JOHN DEROSIER to be completed by sum- work that has to be done Staff Writer mer 2019. But county that includes moving Hometown .............. A6 SWELTERING officials were concerned polls and wires,” Cape Living .........................C3 SUNSHINE WILDWOOD — A $10 about whether the utility May County Engineer Money ...................C2, 6 MAINLAND million project to over- work would be complet- Robert Church said. “We Obituaries .............C4-5 HIGH: 95 haul the Rio Grande Ave- ed in time for construc- were concerned that if Opinion ................ A8-9 SHORE HIGH: 89 nue entrance to the city tion companies to raise we went all in on this See your South Sports .....................B1-5 Jersey forecast on has been cut into phases, and finish the road project just this year, World.................C1, 4-5 C6. delaying its completion before next summer. then we would be stuck date to summer 2020. Utility work is done by with road closures going The project, which is the utility companies, into next summer.” $1.50 being funded by a com- such as Verizon. Their The Rio Grande Ave- DALE GERHARD / Staff PHOTOGRAPHER// Toms River bination of city, county, work schedule is out of nue entrance to A project for Wildwood’s Rio Grande Avenue and north: state and federal money, the county’s control. would raise it 30 inches, but utilty work needs $1.75 was originally supposed “There is a lot of utility See DELAYED, A4 to be done that is out of the county’s control. THE PRESS OF ATLANTIC CITY SOUTH JERSEY WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 2018 • A3 Atlantic County ex-employee charged with theft MAXWELL REIL Ronald Grattini, 36, of check for the same peri- ty as a Staff Writer East Vineland, is charged od. Grattini withdrew all result of with third-degree theft the funds that were an investi- A former Atlantic of movable property, received by direct depos- gation and County employee has Tyner said. it and then cashed the has been been charged with theft On July 13, 2017, Grat- paper check, Tyner said. charged GRATTINI after withdrawing dupli- tini allegedly received a Grattini was employed and released on a sum- cative payroll funds, payroll direct deposit by Atlantic County as a mons, Tyner said. according to Atlantic check in the amount of Right to Know project Contact: 609-272-7258 County Prosecutor $1,504.50 and then specialist. Grattini was [email protected] Damon Tyner. asked for a paper payroll terminated by the coun- Twitter @acpressmaxreil BRIEFS 2 more positive West Nile virus samples in Atlantic County Two more mosquito sam- The West Nile virus is car- Gilmore said. removing and replacing aged ples in Atlantic County have ried by mosquitoes and can Repairs to close Margate mechanical and structural DALE GERHARD / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER tested positive for the virus be transmitted to birds, bridge overnight for 2 parts, including bearings and that causes West Nile other animals and humans. weeks in September: The gears, the company said. Keeping cool in the heat wave encephalitis, for a total of According to the federal Margate bridge and cause- The work should be com- nine positive samples for Centers for Disease Control way will be closed overnight pleted within the two Brody Goodwin, of Franklinville, Gloucester County, beats the county this year, a coun- and Prevention, most for two weeks due to repair weeks, weather permitting, the heat Wednesday with a waterslide at the Raging Waters ty spokeswoman said. humans do not develop and maintenance on bridge the company said. Park on Morey’s Mariners Pier in Wildwood. The latest samples were symptoms, but those who mechanical equipment, The roadway will be collected in Northfield in do may experience head- according to a news release blocked in each direction the 1200 block of Zion Road aches, fever and body aches. from the Margate Bridge Co. and message boards will and the 700 block of Debora State health officials con- The bridge will be closed alert drivers, but there will Coast Guard medevacs Street, Linda Gilmore said. firmed three human cases of overnight 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. be no interruption for boat Previous ones were found West Nile in 2018 in elderly Sept. 16-20 and Sept. 23-27, traffic in the channel during in Hammonton, Pleasantville, residents in Essex, Hudson the company said. the work, the company said. man 230 miles off Cape Linwood and Northfield. and Hunterdon counties, The work will include — Maxwell Reil MAXWELL REIL the Coast Guard said. Staff Writer Air Station Atlantic BOARD board of trustees. is concerned, we have mission,” Petroff said. City launched an Continued from A1 Petroff, who has served worked hard to make The Miss America A Coast Guard heli- HH-65 Dolphin heli- as legal counsel to the foundation is solvent.” Foundation is a separate copter crew evacuated copter crew to medevac foundation since its incep- Petroff said, explaining nonprofit from the MAO a man from a cruise the man and Air Station •Lauren Leader, co- tion in 2012 and helped that every scholarship that supports Miss Amer- ship about 230 miles Elizabeth City launched founder and CEO of All the foundation achieve its fulfillment application ica by providing scholar- east of Cape May on an HC-130 Hercules In Together, a nonprofit nonprofit status, said Tues- had been paid out.