Last weekend, residents Brigid Austin and Jessica Stewart started clearing winter's cover from the planting terrace at Wellwood Park in preparation for their IE small action project called "Blueberry Hill". They are active members of the West Maple neighborhood and Garden Club who help maintain and sustain all the flowers and vegetation in the 23 west end planters and bike path. If you'd like to help them water this year, just let the Brigid, Jess or the Garden Club know.

On April 27th from 10-2, Rutgers Master Gardeners of Camden County, and the Office of Sustainability present the 2019 Green Garden Fair. Featured Speaker is Doug Tallamy, author of Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens. The tickets are free, follow link below. Enjoy cooking demonstrations and tastings, shop annual and perennial plants grown by Master Gardeners, have fun with free kids’ garden projects and tour the Educational Garden. Join the Pedal the Park event in the adjacent county park. Learn from ecologically-minded organizations and shop with our vendors. 2019 will be the Biggest fair yet. Don’t miss it!

Best South Jersey towns for families: Where does yours rank? Well according to NJFamily.com now there's a list that ranks the family-friendliness of more than 500 towns across the state. The site assigned ratings to towns with populations of 1,500-plus based on factors such as schools, safety, affordability and diversity. Merchantville ranked #7 in Camden County, but we think it's #1.

Ryan's Retail is working hard to showcase local entrepreneurs and help them build clientele to establish their business. We love them but we don't want to keep them. Our hope is that they quickly outgrow our weekly and pop-up space to establish their own locations. If you have dreams of owning a business but don't know where to start, this may be the place for you! Come support our business incubator by shopping and supporting local upstarts or giving your own dreams a try. Here are the merchants we have popping in this Saturday at 22 North Centre, Merchantville from 10a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Saturday, April 13th is sizing up to be a beautiful day and the borough has quite a line up of fun events for Merchantville kids and adults. The day starts at 10:00 a.m. with the Borough's Annual Egg Hunt at the Community Center where kids age 10 and under are invited to bring their baskets and join in egg-gathering fun. MLL Opening Day ceremonies begin right after the Egg Hunt at 11:15. Baseball, softball and T-ball teams will be announced, a group photo taken, and some first games played. There will be face painting and a bounce house for all children to enjoy. Merchantville's Market Off Centre will also be hosting a spring market along the trail in front of The Station starting at 11:00 a.m. Our Garden Club will host their Annual Daffodil Fest from 12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m where you can find daffodil bulb and pansy sales; a floral scavenger hunt; kid’s crafts; the "Little Engine That Could" book trail; a railway memorabilia display; a tree seedling give away; a potting party workshop and kids pollination game, just to name a few! Also, the Garden Club, Green Team, IE Merchantville and  Shade Tree commission will provide information and answer questions about their clubs and projects. And, don't forget to visit The Cherry Valley Model Railroad Club
open house at Grace Church, 7 East Maple Avenue.            

The 22nd Fitzy Boy Open celebrating the life of Mark Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. Funds raised from this tournament help support the Neonatal Department at Virtua Hospital and the various programs they have created to support the families of premature babies. June 6, 2019 at 11:45 a.m. to 7:00 pm at Pennsauken Country Club, 3800 Haddonfield Rd, Pennsauken, New Jersey 08109. Please contact Mark F. Kennedy Sr. @ This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 609-320-9451 to receive information on how to participate.

The Cooper Cup Regatta will be held on Sunday, April 28, 2019.The Cooper Cup Regatta was started in 2004 , mainly to create an opportunity for sculling boats and Club programs to race locally.  As rowing grew so did the regatta,  with close to 1,800 competitors racing over the day.  The event was originally called the William and Sarah Cooper Cup Regatta, but is now just known as the Cooper Cup. The event is held on the Cooper River in Pennsauken, NJ racing both sculling and sweep events to include: 1x, 2x, 4x, 4+ and 8+ on both Women's and Men's side. South Jersey Rowing Club offers year round program in a competitive racing environment, while focusing on developing strong technical improvements.  Each season offers daily practice sessions in combination with racing on both the local and national level each year.  The club's overall goal is to train each individual athlete at the highest level that allows them to compete on a national stage.   Our programs start off on the middle school level where athletes have the option to join our Learn to Row (open to middle school aged thru high school aged) programs, Fall Middle School, or Spring Middle School programs. 

The Camden County Clerk’s Election Division handles a wide variety of services for elections include Vote by Mail registration, accepting nominating petitions, drawing ballot positions, designing and preparing ballots, and tabulating election results. June 4th is Primary Election Day in New Jersey. If you would like to register or declare party affiliation, click on the forms below. New Jersey Public Law (L1975 c260) requires a voter to be a member of a political party 55 days before the Primary Election unless the voter is a new registrant or one who has never voted in a Primary Election. Voter registration (English). Voter registration (Spanish). Party Declaration (English). Party Declaration (Spanish)

A newly-discovered type of mushroom could not only play a crucial role in slashing plastic pollution, but could have myriad other uses in addressing the environmental plastics crises the planet faces. Discovered in 2012 by Yale University students, Pestalotiopsis microspora is a rare species of mushroom from the Amazon rainforest that’s capable of subsisting on a diet of pure plastic, or more accurately, the main ingredient in plastic–polyurethane–before converting the human-made ingredient into purely organic matter. It can live off of our plastic waste, without oxygen–meaning that the rare breed of mushroom would make an ideal agent for landfill clean-up, literally from the bottom-up.