Gun Safety Month

June is gun safety month. May is mental health awareness month. I’m not sure it would matter much to combine the two but it certainly couldn’t hurt. At this point anything is worth a try. I say that a few days out from another school shooting that left 21 dead and a couple weeks out […]

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Diamond Duo

Throughout their lives, Steven and Ben Maiers, twin brothers, and Rowan College of South Jersey (RCSJ) baseball players, have been teammates on and off the field. That is until Fall 2021 when they embarked on their higher education and athletic journeys. They both ended up at the same school, but on different campuses and different

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CCTEC, GCIT Honored for Outstanding SkillsUSA Programs

Cumberland County Technical Education Center and Gloucester County Institute of Technology are among the 24 SkillsUSA schools from across the country selected as Models of Excellence for 2022. The annual program recognizes the exceptional integration of personal, workplace and technical skills into SkillsUSA chapter activities. This is the highest honor bestowed on chapters by SkillsUSA,

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‘Future Remix’ Campaign To Promote Community Resources for Youth

The Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office is launching a new campaign to reduce gang-related gun violence and promote community resources for youth in the county. Part of a broader anti-violence reduction strategy, the campaign is designed to connect youth to available resources and services that help build protective factors and produce healthy, positive outcomes for youth.

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Camps for Kids

There are many fun experiences in store around our city and county in May and June. For a truly unique experience, Hands Up Silent Theatre will present Beauty and the Beast Jr. at the Levoy Theatre on May 28, at 2 and 6 p.m. You can buy your tickets directly at handsup.org. Hands Up Silent

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Cue the Chorus

One of my friends lives adjacent to the Manumuskin Creek here in Cumberland County, not far from Peaslee Wildlife Management Area. He described hearing a bird or insect-like call, “sort of a high-pitched flute-like trill sound, a rolling call, a warbling musical chirp. But I don’t think it is a bird or an insect.” “I

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