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It’s been eight years since Ital-ian chef Andrea Covino left Win-field’s in Millville to open his own restaurant in Newfield.

This August, on an undeter-mined date, Covino will bring his Italian cuisine back to Millville with the relocation of Andrea Trattoria Italiana to 16 N. High St.

For Covino, Millville offers a

small businesses-friendly atmo-sphere that fits cozily with his restaurant’s focus on family and tradition.

“I want to give customers authentic Italian food… and bring Italian tradition to Millville and Cumberland County for people to come eat with us,” Covino said.

Covino, a resident of Vine-land, studied at culinary school and worked at restaurants in his native Naples, Italy, before com-ing to the United States in 1987

at the age of 28.In addition to his job at Win-

field’s, Covino worked as a chef at Girasole in Philadelphia and Atlantic City and at Café Cen-tro in Vineland before opening Andrea Trattoria Italiana in 2004. A year later, he opened Andrea Trattoria Italiana II in Sea Isle City.

Covino was attracted to Mill-ville due to High Street’s tight-knit environment, he said.

“We like the idea of the littler

stores run by individuals like us, and it seems like people now want to go more to small, indi-vidually-owned businesses, not the chains,” Covino said.

Covino’s passion for cuisine derived from his childhood spent eating lunches and dinners with his family and helping his moth-er prepare meals. Cooking is all he ever knew, he said.

“My culture in Italy was very

(See CUISINE, Page A-3)

By Don E. Woodsnj.com/south

BRIDGETON — A headless Civil War sen-try stands in Bridgeton City Park’s Veterans Park.

On Dec. 6, vandals took the head off the Civil War Memorial, its head found in the neigh-boring pond. The stat-ue’s gun and the head of an eagle on the base were also vandalized.

John Carr, principal conservator for Materi-als Conservation Collab-orative, came down from Philadelphia on Friday to asses the damage on the statue.

“Our firm specializes in historic preservation contracting,” Carr said.

For Carr to restore the statue, he explains, he first has to get a real understanding of the history of the statue – what its materials are, how it was constructed and how it changed over time.

“Monuments are a little more straightfor-ward in the sense that there haven’t been a lot of additions or subtracts to monuments,” Carr said, comparing them to the work he does on his-toric buildings.

“However, monuments being in the outdoors,

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Repair work begins on the beheaded statue in Veterans Park in Bridgeton on Friday, July 6. MCC Conservator assistant Toby Canfield examines the head of statue.

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By Jason Ladaynj.com/south

VINELAND — More than 2,200 Vineland residents are were still in the dark as of Fri-day afternoon, due to multiple problems municipal utility work-

ers have been encountering this week, including instances of sto-len cables.

According to Cumberland County spokesman Troy Ferus, there were 627 county residents without power throughout the rest of the county on Friday, all

customers of Atlantic City Elec-tric, as opposed to the Vineland Municipal Electric Utility.

“We had a meeting with the Vineland utility people, and they are running into multiplying problems — they can’t just fix one place and move one, because

they’re discovering more prob-lems as more things are fixed,” said Ferus.

“Also, people out there are stealing cables, for the copper or aluminum and trying to get whatever they can for them. Peo-ple don’t have a lot of money in

some areas, and it is disruptingthe work to get everyone back to power.”

While municipal utility crews have the supplies necessary to replace the missing cable, their vehicles aren’t equipped to trans-

(See STORM, Page A-3)

(See STATUE, Page A-3)

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FAIRFIELD TWP — The cool-ing center at Fairfield TownshipSchool has moved to the seniorcenter, located by the townshipmunicipal building at 68 Fairton-Gouldtown Road.

The cooling center ran with-out publication or announcementfrom the county since it openedon Saturday.

It is completely run by thetownship.

Cooling centers provide shelterfrom the heat and are stockedwith food, water and electricity.

The Fairfield cooling centermoved after most of the power inFairfield came back.

“We have a good portion ofpeople with their lights back on,”said Mayor Michael Sharp.

So far there are no plans on clos-ing the cooling center, althougheach day the township assesseswhether to keep it open or notdepending on how busy it is.

On Thursday, Sharp says, therewas only a couple of people whoutilized the center.

“We’re going to open againtomorrow at 10 a.m.,” Sharpsaid.

According to Sharp, the resi-dents have been very pleasedwith the cooling centers and cleanup after the storm.

(See COOLING, Page A-3)

County health inspects local retailBy Don E. Woodsnj.com/south

MILLVILLE — After last week-end’s storm, the county health department went to local retail food establishments to make sure they follow proper protocol.

With power outages through-out Cumberland County, many restaurants, markets and stores had to throw out all of their per-ishable food because of loss of refrigeration.

“The standing order was that they can’t open until the Board of Health checks on them,” said Troy Ferus, spokesman for Cum-berland County.

According to George Sarto-rio, health officer for the Pub-lic Health Department, health department staff posted notices on local establishments that lost power.

“We were out posting on the restaurants in the area that they are not to reopen until they con-tact the health department,” Sar-torio said.

According to Sartorio, many restaurants took precautions on their own, such as procuring generators to keep refrigeration going. Those that did not had to dispose of the spoiled food.

“We do ensure that the stuff that was bad was discarded,” Sartorio said.

Health department staff mem-

(See HEALTH, Page A-3)

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