Leaders are worried about how to handle questions about who’s vaccinated and whether inequities could be created by policies that allow employees freedom to choose whether to work remotely.
Coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths have been plummeting for weeks. The state s rate of fully vaccinated individuals is almost at 50 percent. And later this month, restaurants and retailers throughout New Jersey will be allowed to fully reopen with social distancing precautions.
And that could translate into a summer of record profits at the Jersey Shore, according to Ben Rose, director of marketing for The Greater Wildwood Tourism Authority.
But South Jersey beach-town businesses are worried the worker shortage seen elsewhere will pop up on the boardwalks, too.
With the Memorial Day Weekend opening of the summer season just weeks away, almost every Ocean City Boardwalk business is facing a staffing shortage, said Chuck Bangle, a co-owner of Manco & Manco Pizza. The story is the same along the Wildwood Boardwalk, Stone Harbor s vibrant main drag, 96th Street, and all the way up and down the coast, according to officials and business owners.
Album review by John Arnett)
This is a timely and thoroughly justified re-release of an album that originally came out in 1997 under the title “The Way Home”. The music in question is spirited, uplifting and dance-inflected and will surely have broad appeal, within and beyond the boundaries of jazz. Guitarist
Juan Carlos Quintero was born in Colombia, but has lived most of his life in the USA, attending Berklee, where he met fellow guitarist Tommy Tedesco who was to become his mentor and collaborator. The diverse rhythms and stylings of his native Colombia – and Latin America more broadly – are very much in evidence here, with his own very melodic and distinctive nylon string fingerstyle guitar playing very much to the fore. In addition to the guitar, the instrumentation consists of piano, bass and no less than five credited percussionists, which is a reflection of the (always subtle) rhythmic drive of the music.