Sea Isle City will be keeping free parking after Labor Day. Council discussed the possibility this week of extending the parking meters in the future but opted against it this year. Many shore towns like Wildwood and Cape May keep the parking meters on past the Labor Day holiday. It could bring in more money…
The bridge that connects Avalon to Sea Isle City is expected to be closed on Monday. The county will close the Townsend’s Inlet Bridge to repair the roadway that leads to the bridge in Avalon. This time, the closure is expected to last until just before President’s Day weekend. County officials say this will be…
The roadway leading into the Townsend’s Inlet Bridge will be closed beginning next week for a big reconstruction project by Cape May County. The work is to make permanent repairs to the roadway that was damaged during Hurricane Sandy. A temporary fix was put in to get the roadway back open but the entire bridge…
A lieutenant with the Sea Isle City Police Department is retiring. Lt. Frank Taylor has served the department since 1988 and began full time in 1990. The department made the announcement on its Facebook page. A number of people congratulated Taylor on the Facebook page, even someone who said Taylor arrested him when he was…
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie visited with local leaders in Sea Isle City on Friday morning to discuss this weekend’s coastal storm. Christie told reporters that the state is prepared to deal with the effects of the storm, and flooding through the weekend is expected. In attendance at the meeting were Congressman Frank LoBiondo, Cape…
If you don’t live in Sea Isle City, then the government is asking you to stay away this weekend. The Sea Isle City Office of Emergency Management is asking those who don’t live on the island to not come to town to put an additional strain on first responders. The city has cancelled its Harborfest…
Sea Isle City has itself a proper city hall again. Operations for city hall had been taking place out of the old Sea Isle City Elementary School after damage from Hurricane Sandy ensured that the old city hall couldn’t be used anymore. The new location is at 233 JFK Blvd. City officials and the police…
Sea Isle City is going to have a new city hall beginning on Monday. The new city hall and police department building will be opening together at 233 JFK Blvd. The original buildings were damaged during Hurricane Sandy and the city has been working since to build a new structure. The current city hall is…
The family of Tracy Hottenstein are going to try and prove in court she may have been alive when first responders found her on Polar Plunge weekend in Sea Isle City in 2009. The family says she wasn’t properly examined and was pronounced dead. Hottenstein’s body was found hours after she had been spending the…
Sea Isle’s city council will meet Tuesday morning and will address traffic along Sea Isle Boulevard. City officials are expected to ask the county to address traffic backlogs along the Boulevard during temporary closures. That roadway is being rebuilt, and elevated, by the County. Council is also expected to approve an ordinance that will permit…