The beaches of Wildwood are so wide that in summer, the city runs a taxi service, John Deere Gator, over the sand to take people from the Boardwalk to the water’s edge. Those wide beaches — in some ...

NORTH WILDWOOD — This beach town is going to get what it arguably needs most right now, besides tourists — a slurry of wet, ocean bottom sand pumped onto its badly eroded shoreline.

The shore protection is designed to span beaches across North Wildwood, Wildwood, Wildwood Crest and Lower Township.

Both Wildwood and Wildwood Crest had signed on to the beach project proposal early in the process, then started to express ...