After waiting hours, neighbors blast Strathmere hotel plans
By BILL BARLOW /Special to the Sentinel UPPER TOWNSHIP – After hours of additional testimony, the Upper Township Zoning Board got about halfway through the list of residents seeking to comment on a proposal to replace the Strathmere Motel with a far larger structure. As the night continued on Thursday, Feb. 11, speaker after speaker after […]
New COVID-19 cases fall in Atlantic County
By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff Over the past week, the number of new cases among Atlantic County residents has dropped compared to weeks earlier this winter, but there were still 20 COVID-19-attributed fatalities between Feb. 9 and 15. There were 604 new cases of the coronavirus reported over the past week, which is half of the […]
Strathmere parking to be limited
Room needed for emergency vehicles on some streets By BILL BARLOW/Special to the Sentinel UPPER TOWNSHIP – An ordinance setting new limits on parking in Strathmere could be ready for introduction at the Township Committee meeting Feb. 22. Four streets could have parking limited to one side under the current proposal. After the initial vote, […]
Cape May County COVID numbers drop since January peak
By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff As Cape May County closes in on 20,000 vaccinations given, the numbers of new daily cases and average active cases have dropped substantially compared to peaks in January. According to reports from the county Department of Health, average daily new cases of the coronavirus had been as high as 75 in […]
2 charged in multiple Cape May County bank robberies
ERMA — State Police arrested Lower Township residents Edward Hulme, 43, and Damian Leblanc, 39, for allegedly committing three bank robberies and attempting to commit two others in Cape May County. On Dec. 30, detectives from the Troop “A” Criminal Investigation Office began investigating a robbery that occurred at the Sturdy Savings Bank on State […]
14th St. Fishing Pier growing by 113 feet
Beach limited fishing; ‘we’re not in the practice of catching beach-goers’ By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff OCEAN CITY – What good is a 635-foot-long fishing pier, for fishing, if you look down from the end of it just to see people strolling by in a foot of water? That was the long and short of it […]
ATF: Playland fire accidental
OCEAN CITY – The fire that raged at Playland’s Castaway Cove on the Ocean City boardwalk Jan. 30 was determined to be accidental, officials announced Monday. The blaze, which Ocean City firefighters, assisted by seven other fire companies, fought for hours, destroyed Castaway Cove’s office and arcade building. The rides and other outdoor parts of […]
Virus cases drop, vaccinations up in Cape May County
By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff The number of active COVID-19 cases has fallen in Cape May County over the past week and close to 14,000 vaccinations have been administered. Officials said studies are showing Cape May County has the lowest number of coronavirus cases per capita and the best vaccination rate by population. On Friday, Feb. […]
Atlantic County tops 20,000 COVID cases, nears 500 deaths
By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff With 31 fatalities attributed to COVID-19 over the past week, Atlantic County is fast closing in on 500 coronavirus deaths as the total number of residents infected surpassed 20,000 this past week. There were 841 new cases of COVID-19 reported in the county from Feb. 2 to 8, bringing the total […]
Murphy: State tops 1,000,000 vaccines given
By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff As of Monday morning, there have been more than 1 million COVID-19 vaccines administered in New Jersey. As Gov. Phil Murphy touted the increasing speed of vaccination, he said the goal is to get all 4.7 million adults in the state vaccinated by somewhere between Memorial Day and the Fourth of […]