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Mayor’s column: Bidding farewell
It is with a deep sense of gratitude and reflection that I conclude my term as Cherry Hill’s mayor. As the first person of color in this consequential position, it has been both a privilege and an honor serving the Township’s increasingly diverse 75,000 residents. These past four...
Black History Month essays
The Cherry Hill African American Civic Association and the Cherry Hill library have aannounced the 2024 Reverand Ivan George Essay/Poster/Video Contest for Black History Month. The contest is open to all township public school students in grades K through 12. The theme for this year is, “Their Stories Matter: African...
Cherry Hill’s Kwanch Loo earns YoungArts award
Cherry Hill East student and cellist Kwanchi Loo has received a 2024 YoungArts award in classical music. Loo has been recognized for his achievements and joins nearly 700 of the most accomplished young visual, literary and performing artists nationwide to receive the award. YoungArts recipients are selected in a highly competitive process, where applications are reviewed by panels of esteemed, discipline-specific artists.
Art gallery focuses on menstruation
Have you ever wanted to express your feelings on menstruation through art?. You’re in luck, because Rowan University’s Flow Forward NJ is sponsoring its first art contest and auction to allow artists to do exactly that. They have until Monday, Jan. 15, to register a submission for the “Flow: Musings on Menstruation” art gallery and auction in March.
District preschool expansion explained
After announcing it had received a preschool expansion grant on Oct. 18, the Cherry Hill school district held an information night for the community to review basic information about the program and answer questions from the community. The late November session was both in-person and virtual, with district administrators, board...
Menorah lightings to take place throughout Camden and Burlington counties
From Thursday, Dec. 7 through Friday, Dec. 15, the Chabad of Camden and Burlington Counties will be holding its annual menorah lightings in the following locations:. 18’ Menorah Lighting at the Barclay Farms Shopping Center in Cherry Hill along with a Car Menorah Parade,. Medford Chanukah Village Walk,. Hainesport,
Camden County stores clear of recalled applesauce pouches
After Wanabana Cinnamon Applesauce Pouches were recalled last month due to lead contamination, the Camden County health department began ensuring that all area locations where the product is typically sold have cleared it from shelves. The recall was due to elevated lead levels in more than 50 children across the...
Camden County Health Department issues “Code Blue”
Commissioner Virginia Betteridge, liaison to the Camden County Department of Health and Human Services, advises municipalities that the region will be under a Code Blue Advisory Wednesday evening into the morning of Friday, December 8. The Health Officer has issued the Code Blue advisory for Camden County effective from 7...
Worker uplift
“The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.”. So said A. Philip Randolph, who organized one of the nation’s oldest unions, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, an all-Black group of train attendants shut out of the American Railway Union by Jim Crow, even as they attended mostly to White customers who occupied Pullman sleeping cars.
‘We are made to connect’
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy came to Camden County College’s Blackwood campus late last month, one of eight stops on his national “We Are Made To Connect” college tour. He had also stopped at Duke University, the University of Washington, University of Texas, Arizona State University,...
New math pathways coming to school district
Two new math pathways are being added to the Cherry Hill Public School district’s course of study in addition to the traditional STEM course, as announced at the Nov. 28 board of education meeting. The STEM pathway will continue to exist as an option, but starting in the 2024-’25...
Route 70 eastbound single lane closure Friday night to shift traffic in Cherry Hill, Camden County
Route 70 eastbound is scheduled to have lane closures Friday night between Kings Highway/Route 41 and Covered Bridge Road in Cherry Hill, Camden County. In addition, several side streets within the project limits will be closed and detoured for an extended period of time. If there is inclement weather on Friday night, construction will take place on Saturday, December 2.
The gift of charity
That phrase is the way many appeals for helping the needy start out this time of year. After the bounty of Thanksgiving, the rest of the holiday season can be stark for those who need aid to get by. In South Jersey, ways to provide that aid are plentiful. Among...
Winter fest returns to the river
The Camden County Parks Department will bring its 10th WinterFest Ice Skating rink back to Cooper River through Feb. 25. “It’s one of the most popular events that Camden County produces for its residents, something that residents have asked for each and every year,” said County Commissioner Jeff Nash.
Taking steps forward
After an in-depth review and discussion earlier this month, Cherry Hill Public Schools Board of Education member Gina Winters gave her colleagues an update on New Jersey Student Learning Assessment (NJSLA) 2023 spring test results at its meeting on Nov. 14. She noted that the district overall saw improvements in...
A student with ‘heart’ and preschool expansion
Cooper Elementary School fifth grader Olivia Miller became the second recipient of the Heart of the District award at the township’s Nov. 14 board of education meeting. The award was first granted in 2020 to Joel Fleisher, a retiree who worked at the New Jersey Department of Labor as supervisor of its welfare program and who made trips to Clara Barton Elementary twice a week to read to kindergarteners.
Registration open for Certified Gardener training
The Camden County Certified Gardeners are gearing up for a new season of their horticultural training program. Sessions will run from 9 a.m to noon every Tuesday and Thursday from Jan. 23 to April 11 at the Camden County Sustainability Campus in Blackwood. The program will feature lecturers and university...
A midsummer night’s opportunity
Cherry Hill East will perform the Shakesperean comedy “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” next month – with a twist. The show has several plots that involve residents of Athens, Greece, mixing with fairies from a local forest. It’s “whacky, funny and poignant,” notes a description from East’s theater director Peter Gambino, and includes thwarted lovers and a fresh take on those fairies, characters presented by East as traveling Carnival performers.
Where there’s smoke …
It may come as a surprise, but the American Cancer Society still sponsors the Great American Smokeout every year on the third Thursday in November. Some of us may have been lulled into a sense of complacency about smoking by a successful, years-long effort to educate the country on its dangers, paid for in part by a 1998 settlement with tobacco companies that requires them to pay billions to states “in perpetuity” to cover the health-care costs of their products.
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