Time to Downsize?

Downsizing doesn’t have to mean downgrading. Here are a few key points to keep in mind when you’re getting ready to move. • Don’t throw away everything. Don’t get rid of all your belongings. Only dispose of items you know you will not use once you move. Look carefully at the floor plan of your

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Aid for Small Businesses

During these challenging economic times for our businesses, especially our small businesses, our Main Street Vineland office receives a lot of information about ways that we can help—including grants and other means of financial assistance. This is one that interested small businesses should jump on quickly. The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) announced a

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Mints in China

When Bridgeton’s Ferracute Machine Company, founded by inventor/entrepreneur Oberlin Smith, undertook the task of providing China with three coin manufacturing facilities in 1896, engineer Henry A. Janvier was put in charge of overseeing that each mint was properly set up and its workers trained. Smith and Janvier’s article “Coining Machinery in Chinese Mints,” a Ferracute

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Accountability First

As we begin the second half of 2020, it’s hard to believe what we’ve been through to get here. As if a global pandemic and the corresponding economic meltdown weren’t enough, we’re also dealing with long overdue questions of policing and racism. All people of decency recoiled at the video showing the last desperate minutes

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Wood Ducks

Part of my morning ritual beginning in the middle of May is to check a wood duck box’s contents on my phone. We have a camera in the nesting box that is connected to our Wifi and it can be viewed electronically. One morning in mid-May I noticed a flash of motion in the box.

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