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Norovirus is now the leading cause of acute gastroenteritis among children less than 5 years of age who seek medical care, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Norovirus was responsible for nearly 1 million pediatric medical care visits for 2009 and 2010 in the United States, amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars in treatment costs each year.

Posted on March 20, 2013 by KatieCompton

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CAMDEN, N.J. (March 20, 2013) –Rutgers University-Camden senior Dave Prager (Deptford, NJ/Deptford) has been on a hot streak at the plate lately and his performance last week earned the lefty-hitting first baseman honors as the Division II/III Player of the Week from the New Jersey Collegiate Baseball Association (NJCBA).

Prager hit .571

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Dolores M.

On March 22, 2013 (nee Metzinger) passed away under the wonderful care of Heartland Hospice, aide DeShaun Robinson, nurse Joann Ponto and her daughter Dolores Bricker. Dolores succumbed after a valiant battle with end stage lung disease associated with COPD. She was a longtime resident of Gloucester City but her heart always remained in the coal mine regions of Pennsylvania. She spent her childhood in Ashland and Locust Dale, PA and moved to New Jersey in 1955 with her husband Edward and 2 young sons. She was a true coal miner’s daughter whose father lost his life in the mines in 1957. Dolores loved to crochet, do puzzle books and especially enjoyed her rub off tickets. She was well known around Gloucester with her little ticket list.

Preceded before her were husband Edward Bloom, parents William and Helen (nee Rhodes) Metzinger, her son Edward (Eddie), brothers John (Jackie), William (Billy), James (Jimmy), Edward (Eddie) and sisters Helen Marie Hancock, Barbara DiCarlo and Dolores’ longtime companion John Hancock. Dolores leaves behind her dear children Daniel Bloom (Sabina), Robin Brangan (Al), Dolores Bricker (Harry), Donna Bloom, Betty Lindsay (Rich) all on Gloucester City and her sister Margaret Dale of Cramer Hill. She is also survived by her grandchildren Danielle Bloom of Deptford, Beth Bloom and grandson Edward, Joshua Bloom, Michael Kennedy and great granddaughter Caitlin, Nicole Krimmel and Christopher and Marissa Lindsay all of Gloucester City, Albert Brangan (Janine) of Westville, Andrea Milloro (Denny) of Deptford and John Krimmel (Ashley) and great granddaughter Bella of Blackwood and many nieces and nephews. 

 Relatives and friends are invited to meet Tuesday morning from 9:00 to 11:00 AM at ETHERINGTON FUNERAL HOME, 700 POWELL ST., GLOUCESTER CITY, NJ. Dolores’ Funeral Service will be held 11:00 AM at the funeral home. Interment will follow at New St. Mary’s Cemetery in Bellmawr.  

Giuliani was a strong proponent of mayoral control. He once suggested, semi-seriously, that the Board of Education’s headquarters be blown up. But he had more pressing issues to address, above all rampant crime and public disorder. And so it wasn’t until Bloomberg took office that mayoral control became achievable. By that time, the dysfunction in city schools had become so profound that it was impossible to make an honest defense of the status quo. Bloomberg campaigned on a mayoral-control plank in 2001. Finally persuaded, Albany decided to hand the school mess to the new mayor in 2003—though not without a caveat. The enabling legislation included a 2009 sunset clause, which subsequently was extended until 2015.

That left Bloomberg plenty of time, and under mayoral control, city schools have made classroom progress. But reform efforts have also suffered from serious operational mistakes. Bloomberg’s legislative staff paid insufficient attention to critical detail when it mattered. And even under the best circumstances, changing the direction of any multibillion-dollar bureaucracy is daunting.

The reform effort also met lots of predictable resistance, with the UFT at the forefront of it. The union marshaled its Albany allies to hamper the mayor’s ability to close failing schools, create local charter schools, and effectively evaluate teachers. Indeed, since assuming the UFT presidency three years ago, Mulgrew has fought an effective guerrilla campaign against true mayoral control. He has used the union’s multimillion-dollar political-action accounts to reinforce its influence in

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