The Touch New Jersey Thrift Shop/Food Kitchen has opened in Mount Ephraim at 7 North Black Horse Pike. Readers are encouraged to help the poor with food and clothes in these difficult economic times.

Currently, there is a need for canned, boxed or other prepared foods to be distributed to the homeless and needy among us. Also, there is a great need for clean blankets, jackets and sleeping bags.

To help out, or for more information, call 559-0116 or go to www.touchnewjersey.org.

Gloria Hutchinson, Gloucester City

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Glassboro, NJ, May 4, 2009 – Sora’s Rowan Boulevard downtown revitalization project in Glassboro, NJ, is being honored with a 2009 Smart Growth Award from New Jersey Future, recognizing the project and its three principle partners, Sora Holdings, LLC, the project’s master redeveloper, the Borough of Glassboro and Rowan University and for creating one of the best development projects in New Jersey.

The annual Smart Growth Awards honor projects and plans that reflect the most forward-looking development and redevelopment practices across the state, with award-winners chosen by an independent jury of respected professionals.

By Lois Staas

NEWS Correspondent

Most of the history of St. Mary School in Gloucester City is the history of the Order of the Dominican Sisters of the Holy Rosary.

With great care and dedication, they have taught the children of Gloucester City for 126 years.

In 1873 at the request of Father Egbert Kars, the first four sisters arrived from Newburgh, NY, to become an enduring part not only of the Catholic Community of St. Mary’s, but all of Gloucester City and environs.

In the early days laity taught at St. Mary’s. Some of them were Henry Conaty, Mary Gorman, Katherine Murphy, Henry Phepoe, Hattie Thompson, and Annie Whittington.

PHOTO: THE FORMER ST. MARY CONVENT, Sussex and Ridgeway Streets

American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, May 5, 2009 – In honor of National Military Appreciation Month, JetBlue is offering active duty military personnel $1 fares for domestic, nonstop flights, for a limited time, departing from the two JetBlue cities nearest to the nation\’s capital: Washington Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va., and Richmond International Airport in Richmond, Va.

The airline also will donate $15,000 to the Wounded Warrior Project, a nonprofit organization that honors and empowers wounded warriors. 

To take advantage of the offer, servicemembers must book between today and May 7, or while seats last, for travel between May 8 and May 31 from Dulles or Richmond to any JetBlue destination in the continental United States served nonstop from those airports. Proof of eligibility is required. The fare is available to active-duty servicemembers only; retirees, reservists and military families are not eligible for this offer. 

Nonstop destinations served by JetBlue from Dulles include Boston; Los Angeles/Long Beach and Oakland, Calif.; Fort Lauderdale and Orlando, Fla.; and New York/JFK. Nonstop destinations from Richmond include: Boston, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando and New York/JFK. 

Upon check-in, military travelers must present a valid Department of Defense common access card and official documentation at the JetBlue service counter verifying authorized leave from duty to show proof of active status. Travel booked with this offer is not eligible for online flight check-in or at an airport kiosk.

Failure to present these documents will void the reservation, officials said.
Officials emphasized that tickets for the special fare cannot be purchased online or at the airport service counter. Servicemembers are responsible for applicable taxes and fees.
To book the $1 fare, call 1-800-JETBLUE (538-2583) and select Option 4.

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RESIDENTS NEED TO ATTEND & NEED TO ASK QUESTIONS REGARDING THE

BOROUGH OF MOUNT EPHRAIM 2009 PROPOSED MUNICIPAL BUDGET

The Public Hearing will be held on Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 8:00 pm at the Borough Hall during the regular Board of Commissioners Meeting.

This 2009 Municipal Budget includes a 10 cents Tax Increase per $100.00 of assessed value OR an average Tax Increase of $98.00 up to $214.00 depending on your homes assessment. This Tax Increase DOES NOT include the School Tax Increase OR any County Tax Increase. Last years Municipal Budget had a 15 cents Tax Increase or an average of $147.00 up to $320.00. In the past two years that is a total of between $245.00 and $534.00 in Municipal Taxes alone.

This will be the second reading of the municipal budget and will be adopted at this meeting unless the commissioners decide to make any changes.

Residents need to attend and ask the Mayor & Commissioners what they have done in the past year to reduce municipal spending other then just \”shared services\”? We as the TAXPAYERS & THEIR BOSSES need to put the pressure on them to get the point across that we can NOT AFFORD these INCREASES YEAR AFTER YEAR.

Wolk, Greenwold & Gilmore need to understand that they SHOULD BE CUTTING EVERY CORNER THAT THEY CAN TO MAKE THE INCREASE AS MINIMAL AS POSSIBLE FOR THE TAXPAYERS! Think of the families struggling from paycheck to paycheck and the seniors on fixed incomes!!!

PLEASE ATTEND & make your voices heard at the Public Meeting – Thursday, MAY 7, 2009 at the Borough Hall Court Room at 8:00 PM.

Signed A Concerned Citizen

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Recent Students of the Month at GCHS include (l-r) senior Madeline Minardi, freshman Tom Reed, junior Julie Graham and sophomore Tommy Flynn. These students were selected by a faculty committee because of their outstanding leadership, scholarship, spirituality and service to the community.

In only 18 months since anglers, hunters, trappers and conservationists of all types \”united\” through a grassroots effort and sent two uninformed legislators packing – New Jersey’s \”anti\” culture has been turned on its ear.

The signing of Sunday Bow is far more than a statement of an extra day for hunting. It is proof that a united outdoor community, committed to the stewardship of our ecology and educating others of the precept of conservation is a successful formula for eradicating the ignorance of the link between fishing, hunting and trapping and environmental stewardship.

The signing of Sunday Bow hunting should be evidence of the momentous voting power of 650,000 outdoorsmen and

STEVE LONEGAN: For months, Chris Christie has hidden from my campaign.

But now I’m surging in the polls and they’re running some of the most ridiculous negative ads imaginable.

Let me answer their silly charges one by one.

First: Christie says I raised taxes. That’s a lie.

Those were the Democrats’ budgets and I cut them and stopped their tax increases.

Second: Christie attacks my flat tax and supports the current progressive system.

My flat tax will cut rates on single people earning thirty five thousand a year and up and couples earning seventy thousand a year or more. That’s most taxpayers.

Again, Christie’s ad is a lie.

Third: I’ll provide real property tax relief.

Not through phony election year rebates but by reducing regulations, ending COAH, and distributing the state’s income tax equally on a per student basis.

Chris Christie has no plan and no clue.

It’s time for a conservative change.

That’s why I’m running for Governor, and I hope I’ve earned your vote.

Paid for by Lonegan for Governor. Lonegan dot com.

\”As an officer of the OPRA act (Open Public Records Act), I have to follow the rules and cannot give out certain information without documentation,\” Municipal Clerk Paul Kain

By Sara Martino

NEWS Correspondent

The overcrowding of more than 49 persons as allowed by a Fire Marshall ruling, the April 23 meeting Gloucester City Council was moved to the Gloucester Heights Fire Hall on Nicholson Road.

Some in the crowd of more than 100 people were there to support local unions, and others were there to support Paul Kain, the former City Administrator/Clerk and current City Clerk.

They heard allegations brought against Kain, as Mayor William James presented charges of insubordination, failure to perform duties and deliberate delay or restriction of work effort against the long-time clerk.

Usually, employee matters are discussed in a private personnel session. But, Mr. Kain wanted an open discussion of the charges.

Attorney John C. Eastlack Jr. represented Mr. Kain and submitted a letter concerning the charges. Also, he allowed the clerk to answer some of the charges himself.