May 27, 2021
Wednesday, the Pennsylvania Department of Health added 1127 new cases of coronavirus to its overall total, which now stands at 1,198,595. 38 new deaths identified as COVID-related were also reported Wednesday. That total has now grown to 27,123. Meanwhile, the CDC says Pennsylvania has administered first doses of vaccine to 57-percent of its entire population and more than 52-percent of Pennsylvanians age 18 and older are now considered fully vaccinated.
Gov. Tom Wolf is once again telling lawmakers that he is not changing the date to lift all COVID-19 restrictions. The governor announced earlier this month all restrictions, except mask wearing, will be lifted on Memorial Day. Lawmakers have been urging the governor to lift restrictions earlier so businesses can take advantage of the holiday weekend. Wolf says the bipartisan COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force signed off on ending restrictions that day and he s comfortable with that decision.
The Princeton Planning Board’s on-again, off-again public hearing on Lanwin Development Corp.’s proposed subdivision on the Princeton Ridge – slated for the board’s May 20 meeting – is off again.
The public hearing has been postponed until the Planning Board’s July 1 meeting, because the environmental consultant hired by objectors to the application was not available to testify at the May 20 meeting.
The proposed single-family home development is planned for a 90.6-acre parcel, bounded by Herrontown Road, Herrontown Lane and Mount Lucas Road in Princeton, and by the Montgomery Walk townhouse development in Montgomery Township.
Lanwin Development Corp. is seeking preliminary and final site plan approval for the proposed subdivision to create 30 building lots. Each lot would be about a half-acre in size, using the cluster option. They would be built on 18.5 acres of land that had been cleared for farming many years ago.
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Public Called On to Photograph ‘King Tides,’ Flooding in NJ By Wayne Parry | May 26, 2021
OCEAN CITY, N.J. (AP) With some of the highest tides of the year set to arrive this week, New Jersey officials are launching a campaign to have residents document flooding in their neighborhoods and upload photos to a website that will automatically correlate them with weather and tidal information.
The goal is not only to build a database of frequently flooded areas, but to help the public view and understand the flooding they see in their neighborhood in the context of rising sea levels worldwide.
The public launch coincides with the arrival of so-called “king tides” from May 24 through May 29.
“The highest tides of the year offer a glimpse of what future seal level rise will look like,” said Vanessa Dornisch, a program coordinator at the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve in Tuckerton.
They occur when the sun, Earth and moon align in a certain way, and happen in the spring and fall. Roadway flooding is frequently associated with king tides even in good weather; if they coincide with a storm, serious flooding could result.
The program calls for people to take photos of flooding in their neighborhoods and upload it to www.mycoast.org/nj. The best photos will win prizes from the Jacques Cousteau reserve including travel mugs, baseball caps and emergency kits.