If Sea Isle City had an old-fashioned town crier, no doubt last week he would have been shouting “Sea Isle Boulevard is open … Sea Isle Boulevard is open!” Those are the words many of us were saying after the County opened the south side of our newly elevated causeway to traffic earlier this month.
Now, after years of construction, the vast majority of the work along Sea Isle Boulevard has been completed and traffic is flowing smoothly along the causeway’s new configuration. In the spring, a final layer of asphalt will be installed and other ancillary work will take place. However, in the meantime, we can enjoy the causeway’s “wide open spaces” as we easily drive across the wetlands.
Please keep in mind that until the causeway is officially completed later this year, it will still be considered a construction zone and therefore the speed limit will temporarily remain 40 mph. Nonetheless, that’s a small price to pay for such an important project that has elevated the causeway by 4 feet and will give us peace of mind when extreme weather conditions occur in the future.
I would like to express my gratitude to everyone for their patience and understanding as these critical improvements were made to our causeway. Thank you all!
In other news, I am happy to report that First Bank of Sea Isle City recently donated $2,500 to our Mayor’s Food Drive, which we launched earlier this month to help Federal employees who have been impacted by the recent government shutdown.
In addition to the initial $2,500 donated by First Bank, which we used to purchase small denomination gift cards to Acme Markets, the bank’s Board of Directors also purchased an additional $2,500 in gift cards to Wawa Markets and Walmart.
Then, on Tuesday, several of us drove to the U.S. Coast Guard Training Base in Cape May, where we delivered all of the gift cards along with numerous cases of non-perishable food items.
Joining us on Tuesday was City Councilman Bill Kehner, who had with him a check for $1,000 from the Cape May County League of Municipalities. When we arrived at the Coast Guard base, we were joined by State Senator Bob Andrzejczak, who had a wide variety of food items to donate as well.
