Amateur and professional photographers are invited to submit their best images from the DRVPA Cassic Towns in seven different categories including: community, local history, main street, parks and recreation, people, residential, and seasonal. The deadline for the contest is April 14. Online voting will begin on April 15.
Grace Church changes domain name
Due to a problem with the existing web site domain registration Grace Church is moving their web site to www.GraceChurchMerchantville.org They will no longer use the old site, called gracechurchmerchantville.com but hope to eventually regain use of that domain name in the future, and use it to refer people to the new site. Unfortunately, the change is beyond their control and it will take a week to get the new location set up.
Hydrant flushing this month
The MPWC will begin the Spring fire hydrant flushing initiative at the end of the month. The MPWC Commissioners Spring Flushing Program will take place between the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 25th through Thursday, March 29th and again on Sunday, April 1st through Thursday, April 5th.
Merging of towns at standstill
Neither the Cherry Hill or Merchantville administration sent representatives to the March 6th commission meeting and it was attended by only a few residents. Mayor North, who in the past has voiced his concerns over who would sit on the commission was not at the meeting and has not heard anything on the merger. North noted, “I will say the new administration in Cherry Hill has reached out to me about doing more shared services wherever we can. That’s fortunate, and I feel good about that.”http://on.app.com/FP745j
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Vern Collins to be honored
Merchantville will celebrate Arbor Day on Saturday, April 28th. The Merchantville Shade Tree Commission will be planting a tree to honor Vern Collins at 11:00 a.m. on the Merchantville Circle. All residents and friends are invited to attend. Vern was a devoted member of the committee for more that 35 years and was responsible for many of the beautiful trees that borough residents enjoy to this day.
District school budget released
A Public Hearing meeting on the 2012-2013 School Budget was held at Merchantville School on March 27th. The School District proposed programs and services in addition to core curriculum content standards adopted by the State Board of Education. Information on this budget and the programs and services it provides is available from local school district. 2012-2013 School Budget
"Lace Up" campaign raises over $30,000
Merchantville, NJ: In mid-February, The Haddonfield, NJ community pulled out all the stops to support two local students, Jason Garstkiewicz, a 7th Grade Haddonfield Middle School student and Colin Hough, a Freshman at Haddonfield Memorial High School whom had recently been diagnosed with cancer. As the difficult news spread across town, a group of parents familiar with Go4theGoal’s Lace-Up 4 Pediatric Cancer® campaign reached out to order a few hundred NEON yellow shoelaces to distribute.