An Election Night

Last Tuesday, Paul Auster’s massive biography of 19th century author and New Jersey native Stephen Crane was released. If the publisher had waited one more week, the book would have arrived on Election Day, an appropriate tribute to Crane’s years as a New York City reporter that put him in the middle of the 1894 […]

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Finding Common Ground

Recently I was listening to the radio as I was driving and happened upon the program “Freakonomics.” The topic had to do with our seeming addiction to contempt; the sense that we have a “contempt crisis” happening in our politics and even in our daily lives. This sounded right to me as I listened and

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Dane Barse Elementary School Adds Interactive Board to Playground

Dane Barse Elementary School students in Vineland have a colorful new addition to their playground—an innovative communication board. The new tool, introduced by speech therapist Montana Jacobs, will allow nonverbal students to communicate by pointing to pictures to express their thoughts and feelings. “We had seen a couple of local parks that had these boards,

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OPINION: Small Business Owners Gain Bigger Slice of the Pie as New Jersey Lifts Ban on Selling Home-Baked Goods Giving

People move to New Jersey for many reasons—beaches and boardwalks, diverse culture, family friendly atmosphere, great schools and of course fabulous food. But until recently, New Jersey has been making noise for all the wrong reasons as the only state in the nation that prohibits small business owners from making and selling baked goods using

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Dr. Copare, Bridgeton Native, is Medical Director for Angelic Health Hospice

Fiore J. Copare, MD is a family man, who treats his patients as he would his own. “In treating my patients my recommendations are not only medically sound, but also are based on what I’d do for my own family,” he says. A 1973 Bridgeton High School graduate, after college and medical school. Dr. Copare

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Kirk and Kathleen Maven Honored as “Volunteers of the Year”

Main Street Vineland honored two of its lead volunteers as well as giving out “Community Partner” and “Media Partner” awards at its recent 10th A Taste of Vineland & Volunteer Recognition Event at the Greenview Inn at Eastlyn Golf Course. 4049 Italia Ave., Vineland. The event, in addition to recognizing Main Street Vineland, brought Vineland’s

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