Staff photo by Cathy CramerThe Downe Twp. parade made its annual drive through Fortescue last Saturday evening.DOWNE TWP. — Cumberland County is never short of its parades. The traditional pomp ...

DOWNE TWP. — The tiny village of Fortescue has been named by Preservation New Jersey as one of the Ten Most Endangered Historic Sites in New Jersey for 2014.

We will start this week’s New Jersey Maritime Museum column with the location. Fortescue is located in Downe Township, Cumberland County, on Delaware Bay. The population of this unincorporated ...

Around 4:00 p.m. Sunday Captain Mike Rothman filmed the waterspout form in the Fortescue area of Cumberland County.

Fortescue, a small New Jersey fishing village in Downe Township, Cumberland County, was made by the Delaware Bay. The seemingly endless bounty of the bay drove fishing boat captains to use the river ...

TRENTON - A state coastal restoration project has found early success at the Delaware Bayshore in Cumberland County. According to a New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection news release ...

Cumberland County’s Hillary Barile was selected as a national winner at the combined 2021 and 2022 National Outstanding Young ... Lores Lane and Downe Avenue entering Fortescue, New Jersey.

Bonanza II captain Mike Rothman says he spotted the waterspout within two miles of the boat's location "just off" Fortescue in Cumberland County.

Two fire department swimmers rescued boaters from an overturned vessel on Wednesday, July 10 in Cumberland County, authorities said. Downe Township Fire/Rescue and Dive Team were dispatched to ...

Hurricane Sandy has left parts of Cumberland County’s Delaware Bay communities in shambles, with homes destroyed, protective steel bulkheads shattered and tons of sand covering roadways.