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JAMES JACKSON

Articles by JAMES JACKSON

Local Eagle Scouts honored during Glassboro ceremony

Five new Eagle Scouts from Manuta’s Troop 7083 were honored on May 16 with the organization’s highest rank for more than 700 service projects they completed in 2019 and 2020.…

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Clearview girls track coach reaches combined 100 seasons

From boys freshman basketball all the way to girls track this year, Tom Hengel has reached a combined 100 seasons as a coach at Clearview Regional High School. Hengel, who…

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Deptford teacher provides schools with Little Libraries

Last summer Shannon Pizzuta applied for eight grants, one for each school in the Deptford Township district. She ordered books from Scholastic’s website and organized them by grade level in…

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Clearview High School student receives support after crash

  Four Clearview High School students and friends were on their way home from an ice cream parlor in Woodstown on April 7 when their vehicle was hit head on,…

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Local community pantry powered by Deptford families

Crystal Spears-Behm’s son is a local Boy Scout, and for each rank, he has to do community service hours. Since everything was shut down due to COVID and it was…

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National report names Clearview best high school in Gloucester County

Clearview Regional was named the best high school in Gloucester County on April 27, in a U.S. News & World Report, a global authority on education that also disclosed the…

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Local Girl Scout troop donates cookies to front-line workers

Girl Scouts from Mullica Hill Brownie Troop #66438, a troop made up of third graders, collected and donated boxes of cookies to local first responders and healthcare workers on April…

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Deptford earns award for public information program

During Rutgers University’s 59th annual municipal public information contest, Deptford Township won big: Its public information program was judged best overall for a state municipality for the fall of 2020. …

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Glassboro-Camden transit line projected to start rail service in 2027

Proposals for an 18-mile rail line between Camden and Glassboro have all but reached the preliminary engineering design phase. During a virtual meeting on May 5, Delaware River Port Authority…

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Deptford Township holds its first farmers and crafts market

On Saturday, May 1, wind speed started to pick up just before the first-ever farmers and crafts market at the Deptford Community center on Delsea Drive.  There were about forty…

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