Sign of Summer

Like so many Vinelanders, Robert Scarpa grew up with Serene Custard. “I have such fond memories of coming here as a child with my mother, father and siblings,” he said of the iconic custard stand that opened in 1959. When he heard the owners were shutting down Serene, Scarpa and his girlfriend, Kaitlyn Chillari, stepped […]

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Acronym: SCORE BIG

Businesses everywhere today do what it takes to be competitive and remain so. That’s especially so with smaller downtown stores to hold their own and have an innovative edge when competing with big-box or mall stores. Realizing that, downtown Vineland’s NPP (Neighborhood Preservation Program)—of which I’ve already mentioned several of the programs—has an initiative that

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Glass Mergers

It can be said that the merging of Victor Durand’s Flint Glass Tube Company in Vineland and the Chicago-based Kimble Glass Company was a homecoming for Evan Ewan Kimble, who had spent his early years in Vineland and learned his trade in the factories of Millville. Yet it was more than that. The 1911 merger

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