Sandy could not believe the headline: college students at Alvernia University in Reading, PA are training two robot dogs — named Frankie and Francine — to help scan campus computer networks for cyberthreats. A cybersecurity major is building a Raspberry Pi rig for each robot dog so they can eventually go into unsafe or hard-to-reach… Read more
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Labor Day Weekend at a Wildwood Hotel: Summer’s Last Stretch
Labor Day weekend is the unofficial closing ceremony of the Jersey Shore summer, and choosing the right hotel Wildwood travelers can count on makes all the difference in how you send the season off. Sea Chest Motel, located at 7401 Atlantic Avenue in Wildwood Crest, NJ 08260, has been welcoming families to this stretch of… Read more
Memorial Day Weekend at a Wildwood Hotel: Summer’s Kickoff
Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of summer at the Jersey Shore, and if you’re searching for a Wildwood hotel to kick off the season, timing and location matter more than you might think. Sea Chest Motel, located at 7401 Atlantic Avenue in Wildwood Crest, has been welcoming early-season travelers since it first opened… Read more
A Turtle Spent 50 Years on a Kitchen Floor… And She Just Made It
Sandy caught wind of a story that made her tear up: Rockalina, an eastern box turtle taken from the wild back in 1977, spent nearly fifty years confined to a kitchen floor on an improper cat-food-only diet. She arrived at the Garden State Tortoise Sanctuary in Absecon, NJ fifteen months ago in critical condition —… Read more
A South Jersey Classic is Closing?! Beach Ball Bunnies React to Clementon Park News
Sandy caught wind of big news up in South Jersey: Clementon Park & Splash World, a longtime Camden County family favorite, announced it’s closing again and heading up for sale. It’s the park’s second shutdown in recent years (it closed in 2019, reopened in 2021) — a bittersweet “end of an era” story with real… Read more
Why Midweek Stays at a Wildwood Hotel Beat the Weekend Rush
If you’ve ever tried to book a Wildwood hotel for a Saturday night in July, you already know the drill: rates spike, the good rooms vanish weeks in advance, and everything from the pool deck to the parking lot feels a little tighter than you’d like. At Sea Chest Motel, 7401 Atlantic Avenue in Wildwood… Read more
