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Freeholder Jeffrey L. Nash will host a town meeting on the vision plan for Cooper River Park on April 11 at 6:30 p.m. at the Camden County Boathouse on North Park Drive in Pennsauken. The Camden County Parks Department will present a plan that will expand and redefine the current…
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Camden County
Site Location Magazine, a leading publication dedicated to business site selection, named Camden County the 7th best place to locate a business among the top metro markets in the country with populations over a million. The Freeholder Board has focused on facilitating a business friendly environment is an economic generator…
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Camden County
When local families sit down to breakfast, there may be familiar faces staring out from the back of their Cheerios boxes. Six ShopRite employees in three Burlington County stores will be on the special-edition cereal boxes. On Wednesday, at ShopRite of Marlton in Evesham, store associates Taryn Gunn of Evesham…
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Neighbors
Students, professors and alumni get to tell New Jersey lawmakers what they think of a plan to merge Rutgers and Rowan universities and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. A joint legislative hearing will be held at Rowan's main campus in Glassboro today for the 11 a.m.…
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The Freeholder Board is presenting a Job Fair on Wednesday, April 11th from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Collingswood Ballroom. The Camden County One Stop has a proven track record of hosting successful events aimed at connecting employers and job seekers. This is a great opportunity for employers…
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Camden County
Join the Freeholder Board, park neighbors, Parks Department, the District Council Collaborative Board, Rutgers Camden Public Safety Class, Coopers Ferry Development Corporation, Father Jud Weiksnar and students from St. Anthony’s Elementary School as they clean up Camden County’s Von Neida Park on Saturday, March 24, from 10:00 AM to 1:00…
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Rowan University’s top administrator blamed “human error” Friday after the school was found to have released a misleading comparison between its students and those at Rutgers-Camden.The fact sheet comparison reflected the negative impact of lower SAT scores for disadvantaged students at Rutgers-Camden, but not at Rowan. That gave a 92-point…
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Neighbors
Despite the recent economic turmoil and the township's apparently insatiable demand for amenities, its tax rate stayed flat from 2006 to 2010 and went up only slightly last year. And that is precisely why the community now faces a financial emergency, say leaders of the five-member, all-Republican Town Council and…
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Neighbors
A plan to hike New Jersey's minimum wage by $1.25 to $8.50 an hour is a step closer to approval after the Senate Labor Committee passed it, 3-1, Thursday. The bill, which would peg the wage rate to inflation, passed an Assembly committee last month. Leaders in both Democratically controlled…
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New Jersey
A plan to hike New Jersey's minimum wage by $1.25 to $8.50 an hour is a step closer to approval after the Senate Labor Committee passed it, 3-1, Thursday. The bill, which would peg the wage rate to inflation, passed an Assembly committee last month. Leaders in both Democratically controlled…
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New Jersey