Sweets For Seniors

Mary Miskelly, 3rd Vice President of the Millville Woman’s Club (MWC), coordinated the Sweets for Seniors project. Club members were asked to donate tins of cookies and wrapped pieces of candy. Donations were plentiful and on December 5, Mary and her committee put these tins of cookies and wrapped pieces of candy into over 200 […]

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Year-End Nods

It’s been a hectic couple of months in the Main Street Vineland office, with events following events and all the planning and execution that go with them as well as several grants we are wrapping up for the year. It’s been weeks of multi-tasking, e-mails, phone calls, meetings—live and virtual—and the regular day-to-day business. All

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A Radio Christmas

One of the most beloved Yuletide stories over the past 150-plus years has been Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, an examination of how reminders about the true meaning of the holiday are sometimes necessary, maybe more so lately than in Victorian times. Today, we can experience its moral tale in print as well as through

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Schools Preview Menu for 2023-24 School Year at USDA Foods Conference

School officials from around New Jersey previewed the newest lunch and breakfast offerings available from food manufacturers for the 2023-24 school year during the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Foods Conference at the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center last week. The conference had more than 350 school food service directors, superintendents, and business

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Broadband Expansion in Hopewell Announced

Hopewell Township Committee last week announced a public-private partnership to expand Comcast’s network into unserved areas of Hopewell Township, ensuring high speed broadband is available to every resident, farm and small business throughout the community. This expansion will bring Comcast’s fast, reliable and fiber-rich network along with its innovative suite of Xfinity products and services,

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Millville​​​​​​​​ Volunteers Send Christmas Joy to Children Overseas

Millville​​​​​​​​​-area volunteers are celebrating the collection of gift-filled shoeboxes that will go to children around the world. Thousands have contributed to Operation Christmas Child, a project of Samaritan’s Purse by packing shoeboxes filled with toys, school supplies, and hygiene items, which are then delivered to children in need. Although drop-off locations have closed, there is

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Holly Jolly

Southern New Jersey residents get to enjoy holly year-round in our wooded areas, but at Christmastime I’m especially appreciative of it as it adds color to what otherwise would be a more barren landscape. For centuries holly has been synonymous with the Christmas holiday, if for no better reason than its deep green leaves and

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