Posted by: lois lane @ 2:23 pm
You’ve heard the stories about possible wireless internet all over Cape Island. Well, Cape May’s snail mailing out a survey with its property tax bills. The city wants to know if taxpayers would ditch their current Internet Service providers and, instead, pay the city for wireless internet service.
You really didn’t think internet access would be free, did you?
40 transmitters would have to be placed all around the island to connect Cape May, West Cape May and Cape May Point to the web. (Photo above.) Projected cost is $1 million. Here’s where the transmitters would go on the island:
The city has tentative plans to hook up police cars and 24 hour beach surveillance cameras to the wireless internet plus all sorts of nifty things - liike water meters, electric and gas meters, and, of course, parking meters.
Wonder who’s going to take those midnight calls when someone can’t get online.
The Cape May Taxpayers Association will count the surveys and report back on the yeahs and nays.
Posted by: lois lane @ 10:19 am
Here’s an update to that Beach Theater story we told you about a couple of months ago.
Cape May’s Beach Theater is now open for the summer, still being run by the same owners. (See movie schedules.)
But don’t buy any movie tickets for the fall.
Cape May’s Historic Preservation Commisison this week gave the owners permission to demolish the theater.
To make matters more interesting, Cape May is also in the process of lending $100,000 to a group that’s trying to save the Beach Theater. (See earlier story)
Confused?
The $100,000 is supposed to pay for a year’s rent on the theater, with an option to buy the place.
While that process is moving forward, the theater owners can now go right ahead and demolish the theater once the summer’s over. The only question left is what will replace it.
Apparently they’re proposing a combo of condos and shops - in a Victorian theme of course. If we hear right, the plan would include private garages all along Stockton Ave. Not very pedestrian friendly.
On the Beach
The good news for film lovers is that Wildwood’s Sunset Cinema - which shows movies on the beach every night in the summer - is back! And the even better news is that Wildwood gave the Sunset Cinema a three year contract to continue to show their first run movies with great sound in that unbeatable location. (See this week’s movie schedule.)
Cape May’s Chamber of Commerce also is taking up the beach movie mantra. (Maybe not a moment too soon.) The chamber will be showing three classic family films on Cape May’s beach for the first time this summer.
Dates are July 11th, 18th and 25th at 8:45PM.