Bohemian Ties

Two years ago, this column featured a series on Vineland poet and public speaker Augusta Cooper Bristol, who earned a national spotlight by visiting and reporting on Jean-Baptiste Andre Godin’s intentional community, the Familistere, in France. It was believed at that time that Bristol may have first encountered Godin’s ideas from the Republic of Industry, […]

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Franklin Bank Sponsors Project Thanksgiving Turkey Drive

Franklin Bank is sponsoring Project Thanksgiving’s 12th annual turkey drive. Their $500 donation will be used to help provide Thanksgiving dinners to local veterans and their families. The Project Thanksgiving team is dedicating this year’s event to the memory of Father Paul Pantelis. He served 19 years in the military, attained the rank of Captain

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State Farm Teams Up with Local Fire Department to Serve Up Kitchen Safety

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and State Farm Agent Randi Galan are teaming up with the Hopewell-Stow Creek Fire Department to support Fire Prevention Week, an annual public awareness campaign promoting home fire safety. State Farm Agents are delivering Fire Prevention Week toolkits to more than 2500 fire departments across the country, including Hopewell-Stow

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Friendly Reminders

We’ve got a lot going on in Main Street Vineland and on The Ave, and this is another reminder of all those things, so you can make them part of your plans and agenda. • Coming up later this month is our annual Pumpkin Patch Party, planned for Saturday, October 31, from 11 a.m. to

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Achieving Police Diversity

Like our Constitution, a significant number of our laws, whether on the federal, state, or local level, can be strictly interpreted and applied as the original framers understood them or they can be reevaluated in light of changing needs. Being among those who only gained the various benefits of the Equal Protection Clause of the

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Indian Pipe

Many woodland plants deal with decreased sunlight by blooming early in spring when leaf cover is sparse or nonexistent. But our subject species, Indian pipe, adapts to the darkened woods of autumn by getting its nutrients from the forest floor, versus sunlight. It is one of the few true plants that does not have chlorophyll,

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Election Season

Cumberland County Candidates For Sheriff • Cumberland County Candidates For Board of Freeholders * * * Debate Set for October 8, Questions Sought The William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at Stockton University and NJTV, New Jersey’s public television network, are co-sponsoring a live debate between 2nd Congressional District candidates, Democrat challenger Amy Kennedy

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