Every Drop Counts

Needless to say, these past few weeks have been extraordinarily hot. Aside from making people uncomfortable and impacting people’s health, the heat and everything surrounding it is starting to affect the state’s water supply. We need to start thinking about conserving water. In late July, seven counties in New Jersey—Ocean, Monmouth, Mercer, Hunterdon, Middlesex Somerset,

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Iron Chef Garces

Jose Garces has become well known in southern New Jersey, since he is chef owner of restaurants in Philadelphia and Atlantic City. He is known as a leading culinary authority of Spanish and Latin-American food, but his skills and passion include other influences as well. Garces debuted as an Iron Chef in January of 2010,

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Back on the Bus

Nothing marks the beginning of school like the return of yellow school buses to our streets. Local school officials as well as commuters hope that all students who are offered bus service will take advantage of it. School districts across the country experienced a huge shift during COVID. “A higher number of parents were transporting

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Keeping It Local

Earlier this year, Bridgeton’s Broad Street School started something new. It was Friday and the usual slices of pizza lined the counter, as they do at most schools. But when seventh graders entered the doors of the school cafeteria, they broke into a run—past the slices and headed straight for the salad bar, which was

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Domain Name

First and foremost, when it comes to domain names, try to stay away from the silly, stupid, ridiculous or clever. Keep your domain name simple and make it something your customers can remember if they lose the link to your business website. Once your site is recognized and considered by search engines, a professional domain

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New Businesses

We love to have new businesses come to The Ave and show interest in downtown properties. We trumpet our new businesses in a variety of ways—social media, print media, ribbon-cuttings, and meet-and-greets, among them. We publicize available properties on our website. The ongoing effects of the COVID situation slowed all this up for a time,

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Local Fossil Sites

The vestiges of dinosaurs who roamed the land that is now New Jersey is fairly far-reaching, and anyone wishing to tour the sites that offer a glimpse into the past before the summer reaches its conclusion have a number of choices. In Haddonfield, the site where the first nearly complete dinosaur skeleton was unearthed, a

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