A Tour, Cats, and Music

We now reach the last leg of our journey along The Ave—the block between West Avenue and Delsea Drive. It’s the westernmost block of Landis Avenue covered within our Vineland Downtown Improvement Zone. It’s a long block and includes two shopping plazas, other multi-business complexes, and the former Landis Middle School (now, the headquarters of […]

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Gifted Books

The two large bookcases that house an impressive collection of tomes once owned by Charles K. Landis and his family at the Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society (VHAS) is beginning to shed additional light on Vineland’s founder, his acquaintances and his reading habits. VHAS curator Patricia Martinelli, who estimates the bookcases contain several thousand volumes,

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Sweeney Speaks on State’s Emerging Industrial Hemp Industry at State Agriculture Convention

Senate President Steve Sweeney spoke at the State Agricultural Convention last week, expressing his commitment and dedication to New Jersey’s agriculture sector as well as his hopes for the emerging industrial hemp industry in the state, calling hemp the next major cash crop for the Garden State. “The agricultural industry has always been a vital

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Vineland Public Charter School Celebrates National School Choice Week

National School Choice Week (NSCW) was celebrated held last week at the Vineland Public Charter School (VPCS) in Vineland. The school serves students in grades pre-k through eighth grade. They had a series of events planned to celebrate NSCW and it began with awarding three middle school students gift cards from Five Below for a

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The Immigrant Impact

With immigration reform remaining one of the biggest policy issues in 2020 and $7.2 billion in Pentagon funds potentially going toward border wall funding, the personal finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2020’s Economic Impact of Immigration by State as well as accompanying videos. In order to determine which states benefit most from

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Role Models

The Pascale Sykes Foundation will host Working Together For Working Families: The Whole Family Approach on Thursday, February 13, at Rowan College of South Jersey’s Luciano Center in Vineland. The one-day conference will focus on how the Foundation’s acclaimed Whole Family Approach is strengthening America’s low-income working-class families It follows the highly successful 2017 Working

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Roses Are Red

For centuries, the color red has been associated with passion, deep love, desire, and romance—so naturally, it’s the hue of choice for Valentine’s Day, the celebration of romantic love. It’s not the only color that’s supposed to mean something that day, too. Just ask the bewildered customer trying to pick out the proper rose to

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A Lasting Legacy

The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) presented its three annual awards and one special award for outstanding service and noteworthy philanthropy at its January 6 annual awards banquet, held during the annual Presidents Institute in Marco Island, Florida. The Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities, Inc. earned the 2020 Award for Philanthropy (Organization). Accepting the award

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