Bags of Hope

Chuck Brett of Millville and his mostly volunteer team are in the staples business. The staples they deliver twice each week include bread, milk, fruit, cereal, soup, pasta, sauces, and canned vegetables. The mission of the Help and Hope Missions food bank is feeding the needy, and lately there are a lot more people in […]

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Easter ala Kugel

My mom’s mother, Mary Palinroda, was a cook for many Jewish restaurants in New York City way back in the 1930s. She accumulated a lot of recipes to add to her already extensive repertoire of Ukranian recipes, so that holidays at our house became an international feast of Eastern Europe delicacies. Pierogies, kielbasa, red cabbage

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America’s Biggest Metros Lost Residents in First Full Year of Pandemic

This story is being republished under a special NJ News Commons content-sharing agreement related to COVID-19 coverage. Link to FULL story: pressofatlanticcity.com/news/national/americas-biggest-metros-lost-residents-in-1st-full-year-of-pandemic/article_8c8768e8-974e-53b8-b71b-3c8f2c79aa64.html After returning to metro San Francisco following a college football career, Anthony Giusti felt like his hometown was passing him by. The high cost of living, driven by a constantly transforming tech industry,

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How Ready is New Jersey if COVID-19 Surges Again?

This story is being republished under a special NJ News Commons content-sharing agreement related to COVID-19 coverage. Link to FULL story: njspotlightnews.org/2022/03/nj-scaling-back-covid-19-coronavirus-pandemic-infrastructure-officials-confident-if-resurgence-some-concerns With COVID-19 case numbers down significantly since the January peak, and public and political tolerance ebbing for the pandemic and measures to control it, New Jersey is scaling back its pandemic infrastructure. More

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NJ Reports Seven COVID Deaths, 1,143 Cases. Positive Tests Start To Rise Again

This story is being republished under a special NJ News Commons content-sharing agreement related to COVID-19 coverage. Link to story: njspotlightnews.org/2022/03/nj-spotlight-news-roundtable-health-care-experts-living-with-covid-pandemic-endemic New Jersey on Thursday reported another seven confirmed COVID-19 deaths and 1,143 positive tests, providing a possible early indication of a rise in cases after months of steady declines. The state’s seven-day average for

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COVID-19 Far From Over, Panel Agrees

This story is being republished under a special NJ News Commons content-sharing agreement related to COVID-19 coverage. Link to FULL story: njspotlightnews.org/2022/03/nj-spotlight-news-roundtable-health-care-experts-living-with-covid-pandemic-endemic It’s too soon to consider COVID-19 an endemic disease in New Jersey, and misinformation about the coronavirus and our options for protection continue to put people’s lives at risk. That was the consensus

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Vineland Firefighters to be Honored for 50 Years of Service

Two firefighters from the East Vineland Volunteer Fire Company—Ronald Ruggeri and Wayne Corsiglia—will be honored for having served 50+ years in the fire service. The Harold J. “Whitey” Swartz Valor Awards and Service Recognition ceremony will be held at the April meeting of the Atlantic County Firefighters’ Association on Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 7:30

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