Dr. Maud Goodnight: Transforming Students’ Lives for Four Decades

After 41 years of service in higher education, Rowan College of South Jersey’s (RCSJ) Dr. Maud Goodnight is ready to move on to her next transformation—retirement. Wearing multiple hats during her tenure at Cumberland County College (CCC)/RCSJ, the University Center executive director has witnessed both personal and institutional changes over the past four decades, educational […]

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Pride in Millville

Summer Camp fun is right here on High Street in the Glasstown Arts District! Parents were really excited to be able to register their children for the annual Art Creates Excellence program and Summer Theatre Camp at the Levoy. We scaled back the number of kids in both programs, and they are full. Hopefully, you

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Keys to Music

This season, there is no better place to celebrate a love of music than outdoors. Here are five ways to make it happen: 1. Plan a block party: Whether you host a smaller gathering for a handful of neighbors and friends in the backyard or organize a larger event in a public park or street,

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Promising Oscar

Recently, Turner Classic Movies aired director Charles Burnett’s 1990 film To Sleep with Anger, and HBO Max offered a feature on Burnett in addition to adding the movie to its roster. In September, Criterion will release a box set featuring four films by Melvin Van Peebles, including his seminal The Story of a Three-Day Pass,

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Team Building

July is a team-building month for Main Street Vineland and we’re looking at good people like you to join us at the table to help make our downtown—The Ave—the best it can be. You read this column because you’re interested in what’s going on downtown, so this is your chance to help make a difference.

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Closer to Fine

In my previous column for SNJ Today, I wrote that what I missed most during the time spent in quarantine was the experience of seeing live music the old fashioned way—in person, with a live audience—rather than streamed over the interwebs. Well, ask and you shall receive. In the kind of sticky, scorching heat where

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Talking Turkey

Some of our readers , I suspect, have been seeing hen turkeys lead their families through neighborhoods, so it seems like yet another time to—you guessed it —talk turkey. Two years ago I relayed a story on these pages of a resident turkey that nested at our back door in a patch of rosemary, sage,

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Baseball Proud

Southern New Jersey, and Millville in particular, has produced its fair share of baseball standouts who have gone on to play in the majors. For a presentation on one of the earliest—Floyd Clunn—join the Millville Historical Society on July 10 at 1 p.m. at 821 Columbia Avenue (parking in rear off Church Street). Using Clunn’s

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