WWII Army Medic Kiniry to Speak at Holocaust Workshop

The South Jersey Holocaust Coalition will host a free workshop on December 5 at the Vineland Public Schools’ Landis Administrative Building about the impact of starvation and disease before and after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. The workshop is hosted by the coalition in partnership with the Jewish Federation of Cumberland, Gloucester & […]

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Local Big Brothers Big Sisters Welcomes New Program Manager, New Enrollment and Matching Specialist

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cumberland & Salem Counties (BBBS) welcomes Yeila Rivera (pictured at left) and Yolise Sosa to the team, Rivera as its new program manager and Sosa as its new enrollment and matching specialist. As a former Big Sister, Rivera understands the importance and function of the BBBS high school mentoring program

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RCSJ Honors First-Generation Students During National Celebration

On Tuesday, Nov. 8, Rowan College of South Jersey–Cumberland (RCSJ) lauded the accomplishments of first-generation students at its National First-Generation College Celebration. The event was organized by TRIO and Student Life. Administrators, faculty and students gathered together at the Cumberland Campus Grove to celebrate the courage and pioneering mindset of students who were the first

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Sights Set on Parade

Our office has been busy preparing for our annual Main Street Vineland Christmas Parade—on Saturday, November 26. It’ll start at 5 p.m. and, if it rains, it’ll be held the next day at the same time. This year’s theme is “A Firefighter’s Christmas.” Main Street Vineland will be honoring the City of Vineland’s fire department

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Which State?

It’s not visible to the naked eye. In fact, there isn’t even any hint anywhere on the westernmost edge of Salem County that two areas in this region have belonged to and are still the property of the State of Delaware, which happens to sit across a body of water that separates it from its

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Animals and Inmates

While utilizing inmates to help with the challenge of trying to figure out what to do with hard-to-adopt dogs might be new in our area, it’s not a new idea. Several states including Washington State, Kentucky, and Florida have programs. The Florida Department of Corrections has a program called “TAILS” (Teaching Animals and Inmates Life

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Some Family Lore

Each family seems to have its traditional holiday stories, and for me the quintessential tale is one my mother used to tell about her childhood on Thanksgiving Day. She was the youngest of four children and the only one in her entire family not born in Spain. Yet she too made the voyage across the

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