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South Shore Stitchers Donate Fidget Blankets
Angelic Health is most grateful for the very generous donation of fidget blankets by the South Shore Stitchers Quilt Guild of Tuckahoe. The group makes beautiful fidget blankets for Angelic’s hospice patients with dementia. The blankets have a calming effect for these patients.
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Millville High School Senior Named Commended Student in National Merit Scholarship Program
Principal Jaime Sutton of Millville High School is pleased to announce that Kevin Sheppard has been named a Commended Student in the 2022 National Merit Scholarship Program. A Letter of Commendation from the school and National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC®), which conducts the program, will be presented by Principal Sutton to this scholastically talented senior.
State to Ban Plastic Carryout Bags
It is one of those things that’s out there and you know it’s coming, but it somehow manages to sneak up on you anyway. I’m talking about New Jersey’s ban, which goes into effect May 4, 2022, on those single-use plastic carryout bags used in supermarkets, convenience stores and similar places of business. In addition
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Eight Eyes Watching
The morning was still brisk as I embarked on my daily walk. The warm ground and cold air caused dew and moisture to condense on every surface. The oak fungus came up overnight and grew at rates only fungi can achieve. The mystery of such rapid cell duplication boggles my mind and overwhelms my intellect.
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Pumpkins and More
It’s getting to be that time of year—pumpkins, jack-o’-lanterns, costumes, trick-or-treat, cider. When fall is in the air, it gets to be Halloween time and in downtown Vineland, that means our annual Pumpkin Patch Party on The Ave. This year, it’ll be on Saturday, October 30, rain or shine, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.,
Kit Houses
In the early 20th century, Sears, Roebuck and Co. offered quite a few advantages for the prospective homeowner interested in buying a Sears Modern Home through the company’s mail-order catalogs. Sears had been advertising and selling materials for the construction of its homes since 1908 when the first of its catalogs, titled Book of Modern
Vineland Awarded a Neighborhood Preservation Grant
The City of Vineland has been awarded a $125,000 grant by the state Department of Community Affairs (DCA) to participate in the Neighborhood Preservation Program (NPP). Through local planning and community participation, the program focuses on revitalizing neighborhoods that are beginning to decline. DCA picked communities based on qualities such as community engagement, staffing capacity,
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Bridgeton Among Top School Lunch Programs
National School Lunch Week was last week, October 11–15, and New Jersey has more than 800 schools that participate in the National School Lunch Program. Three school districts that are exemplary in implementing their feeding program are Newark, Jackson and Bridgeton. “These school districts along with so many others have maintained a high standard of
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