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by Brett Ainsworth, Publisher
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by Brett Ainsworth, Publisher
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Oaklyn’s council meeting Tuesday evening featured the public hearing and approval of bond ordinance 05-24, which authorizes borrowing for improvements to the borough’s senior center, as well as repair and restoration of various streets and sidewalks in the municipality including Goff Ave.
The New Jersey State Council on the Arts announced in February that for 2024, $1.7 million in fellowship awards were handed out to New Jersey artists, and to no surprise, Collingswood is home to multiple winners. According to the council, “the fellowships are competitive awards to New Jersey artists in 12 rotating disciplines granted solely on independent peer panel assessment of work samples.
Less than a week after West Collingswood beauty salon owners Christina and Jamie Giordano say they were threatened by Collingswood officials over their refusal to sell their business’s parking lot to the borough, the commission made the threat reality at Monday evening’s regular business meeting.
The Haddon Township school board and administrators begin the hard work of now implementing the bond referendum projects after voters approved it 2-1 on March 12. Following interviews with three of the five interested construction firms last week, the district has a tentative pick, New Road Construction Management Co., Inc.
Most towns in New Jersey, to conform with state environmental regulations, have adopted tree replacement regulations on private property and Oaklyn will be among the latest, and last, to incorporate the standard by the state deadline in May.
Kings Highway from the border of Haddonfield to the border of Bellmawr, spanning Haddon Heights, Audubon and Mt. Ephraim, should be one smooth, repaved and re-striped road by the end of 2025 according to Camden County officials. On the morning of Friday, March 22, deputy county administrator Dominic Vesper Jr. convened a meeting at Audubon’s Francis J.
The Haddonfield Board of Education recognized 31 high-achieving students at last month’s meeting. Winners received gold, silver, bronze or other achievement awards in the 2024 National German exam. “We have an enormous amount of wins and that’s a testament to our students,” said world language teacher Ann Feinleib, who presented the awards.
Ramifications from the June 20, 2019 superstorm that flooded houses in Haddonfield continue to wash through the borough close to five years later, as a Camden Superior Court jury last week awarded $21.7 million to one set of families from Lafayette and Heritage drives and the borough is also a named defendant on a second stormwater case brought by two Concord Dr.
Jazz organist Lucas Brown brings his quartet to the First Presbyterian Church of Haddonfield at 20 Kings Highway East on Friday, April 19 at 7 p.m. An old-fashioned tenor battle will bring together two rising stars of the tenor saxophone, Chris Lewis and Dylan Band.
