New Veterans Center To Open in Vineland

The Department of Veterans Affairs recently announced the addition of three new Vet Centers and six Vet Center Outstations (smaller satellite locations) to improve access to counseling for veterans and service members. Vet Centers are community-based counseling centers that provide a wide range of social and psychological services, including no-cost professional counseling to eligible veterans,

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College Aces

Several Rowan College of South Jersey (RCSJ) students had a unique opportunity to experience life at Princeton University this past summer. Rachel Kustera, Grace Sacco, Angelina Bruner, and Elenna Bernard were selected to participate in the Ivy League school’s pilot Transfer Scholars Initiative (TSI). The RCSJ students were among 40 scholars from seven New Jersey

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Looking at Glass

Did you know that America’s first successful glassworks was started in 1739 by Caspar Wistar, a German immigrant, in the tiny town of Alloway in Salem County? Yes, glassmaking had been attempted previously in other regions, such as Jamestown, Virginia, but it took a visionary who saw that South Jersey had everything he needed to

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Waste Not

Last December Stanford University’s Recycling Center Peninsula Sanitary Service, Inc. (PSSI, a private Corp.) released statistics noting that our waste increases by 25 percent between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. PSSI reports, “The extra waste amounts to 25 million tons of garbage—about 1 million tons per week!” After that downer here is some fun information: If

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Knock Out Opioid Abuse

Angelo Valente, Executive Director of the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey, with, from left, Salem County Prosecutor Kristin Telsey, Acting Gloucester County Prosecutor Christine Hoffman, and Cumberland County Prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae. At a joint press event hosted at Inspira Medical Center Mullica Hill, the three prosecutors announced an initiative to fight the statewide opioid

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Shop Small, Shop Local

The holiday shopping season is now here and many people will, no doubt, flock to the shopping centers, big-box stores, malls and online to grab up the doorbusters and pick over the other specials—items mostly likely having rolled off some assembly line in some factory in some faraway locale. Now with Black Friday, Small Business

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Angelic Health Awards Grants to Four Charities

The Angelic Health Foundation recently awarded a total of $5,000 in grants to four charities that support the needs of patients and their families during difficult times. Each charity received $1,250 toward its mission. Pictured here: Angelic Health Board Secretary/Treasurer Jeff Whitaker and Board Chair Vince Papaccio presenting checks to Melissa King, president of The

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Vineland Schools Receive Tutoring Grant

Vineland Public School District has been selected as one of the recipients of the competitive High Impact Tutoring grants awarded by the New Jersey Department of Education. The grant program, totaling approximately $41 million, has allocated funds to approximately 240 school districts across the state to support the implementation of highly effective, evidence-based strategies aimed

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