Funeral Arrangements and Inquiries may be made through: McCANN-HEALEY FUNERAL HOME: 851 Monmouth Street, Gloucester City. Phone: 856-456-1142.

Today, Murphy oversees the biggest high school athletic program in South Jersey, catering to more than 1,500 athletes in 31 varsity sports.

But at this time of year it\’s the athletes who won\’t be playing — the ones who\’ve been told during the last few days that they weren\’t good enough to make the team — that tie knots in Murphy\’s stomach like the one he felt 27 years ago.

Keith Kaseman’s and Julie Beckman’s proposal for the memorial’s design was chosen from more than 1,100 submissions in March 2003. Soon afterward, the New Yorkers moved to Alexandria, Va., near Washington, where for more than three years they worked with construction plans and fine-tuned design details.

The memorial, Beckman said as she strolled across the grounds with her husband, will provide a \”very special place on Earth\” dedicated to the memory of the 184 people who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the Pentagon.

The memorial \”is very contemplative, very peaceful,\” Beckman observed.

Located just outside the Pentagon, the memorial park features 184 granite-topped, stainless-steel \”sculptural elements,\” said Jean Barnak, the Defense Department’s project manager for the memorial. These elements, she said, represent the 125 lives lost in the Pentagon and the 59 deaths aboard American Airlines Flight 77 when terrorists plunged the plane into the Pentagon’s west wall.

Each element has a reflecting pool of water at its base, Barnak said, which is flood-lit in the evening. The families of the attack victims also had a hand in the memorial’s design, she said.

Two weeks ago, I wrote a column about \”Americans loving their dogs.\” I also shared the top 10 most popular male and female dog names in the United States and invited readers to submit their favorite dog names and why. Well, the votes are in for the Coulee Region’s unofficial \”Top Dog Name.\”

Drum roll, please.

Five names shared top honors. They are Lambeau, Charlie, Bandit, Chester and Remington.

Yet, what is most intriguing is how dogs acquire their names.

I received many responses. Some were touching. Others were downright funny.

Long before the magazine covers made his face a ubiquitous presence at newsstands nationwide and he could no longer eat at a restaurant without being noticed, one of his best friends, Steve Antonucci, predicted it would happen.

Seven years ago, in a moment of eerie prescience, Antonucci, the coach at Middletown High School South, told his precocious freshman running back, Knowshon Moreno, that life would never be normal.

Photo and caption ~Bill Cleary

CAMDEN, N.J., Aug 28, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — The notion of \’tackling\’ is nothing new to a football mom, but the moms of 35 NFL players are giving tackling a whole new meaning this football season. The Professional Football Player\’s Mothers Association (PFPMA) is teaming up with the Campbell\’s Chunky/NFL Tackling Hunger(R) program and Feeding America, (formerly known as America\’s Second Harvest) the nation\’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization, to tackle a big issue — the nation\’s hunger. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, hunger affects more than 38 million Americans. To help fight this national problem, 35 moms from the PFPMA are taking part in the \”NFL Moms Tackling Hunger with Chunky Soup\” program, a friendly competition among moms of NFL players, where they\’ll strive to raise as many food donations as possible for their local communities. Beginning in September, which is also Hunger Action Month, each mom will

Gloucester City PD and Brooklawn PD Plan Roadside Sobriety Checkpoint

Media Release-

The Gloucester City Police Department in conjunction with the Brooklawn
Police Department will be conducting a roadside sobriety checkpoint on
Friday night September 5th.

The E-Mail They Didn’t Want You to See

On Thursday, August 28, a mediation session between City News Publisher Albert Countryman, City News Publisher Emeritus Bill Cleary, City Solicitor John Kearney and a representative of the state’s Government Records Council was held to discuss the controversial E-mail that was sent in June by City Administrator Paul Kain to Councilman Nick Marchese, Finance Chairman.

The City News had filed an OPRA request in June for a copy of the Email so it could be made public. OPRA provides that \”… government records shall be readily accessible for inspection, copying, or examination …. With certain exceptions …\” N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1.

However, Pau Kain, the City’s custodian of records refused to release the E-mail. \”The information requested in your OPRA dated June 27, 2008, refers to confidential, inter-agency, intra-agency advisory, consultative, and or deliberative material and is therefore exempted from the Open Public Records Act.\”

Countryman and Cleary had received a copy of the correspondence in question via snail mail in June from an anonymous source.

Mr. Countryman and I decided to file an OPRA request to see whether or not Mr. Kain would release the information willingly. When he denied the request we decided to take the next step and ask for mediation.

After our meeting yesterday we have decided that it does not meet the criteria to be excluded from public view. It will be released in its entirety next week.

Related: OPRA articles from CNB

HEARD ON THE STREET

A community in the immediate area is looking to replace a high ranking employee. A notice will be posted in October advertising the position.

~author Bill Cleary

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