Atlantic City’s getting a new supermarket, probably it will be a ShopRite-affiliated supermarket, probably it will be back on Baltic Avenue near Ohio, where CRDA owns one of its many parking lots. If it seems like only two months ago that CRDA approved a consulting contract to explore the issue, bear in mind the consultants seem to have worked even faster than that. Sentence first, verdict after! As they say.
The state BPU has rejected, for a third time, a planned 25-megawatt windfarm off the coast of Atlantic City. The project manager called the decision disappointing. The BPU called the project expensive.
Three Pleasantville football persons are signing letters of intent to play in college. Mohamed Toure, a running back, is headed to Rutgers.
The South Jersey Times, in an op-ed, said NJ Transit should tell everyone when the AC-Philly rail line will reopen, since the first rule of communications is communicate. Chris Brown, on LinkedIn, said he was happy to share the line would be reopening with a commuter schedule, but I clicked on that link and it was broke.
For more feats of journalism…
Disabled man died emaciated and covered in bed sores. Now his mother is charged with murder–Walter L. Brown Jr. suffered from cerebral palsy and epilepsy during his 24-year life. www.nj.com
Feast of 7 Fishes more than an Italian tradition–VENTNOR – The Christmas holiday starts one day earlier for many Italian-Americans. La Vigilia de Natale, or Christmas Eve vigil to most Italians, starts early in the morning on Dec. 24 with preparations for the Feast of the Seven Fishes. www.downbeach.com
169–A study released by a national smart growth-group shows that of New Jersey’s 169 so-called Opportunity Zones, many rank among those with the most potential when measured against zones elsewhere in the country. www.njspotlight.com
Miss America shops competition to other cities after Atlantic City ends funding–The Miss America Organization is shopping itself around to cities after its ancestral home said it would no longer subsidize the iconic but troubled competition to keep it in Atlantic City. www.philly.com