The landmarks Camden has lost or tossed away could fill a hall of shame. They include long-gone but still-beloved buildings like the Stanley Theater, the Walt Whitman Hotel, and the Broadway Methodist Church, a list to which the shuttered Sears store on Admiral Wilson Boulevard soon will be added. Let's point out that the disappearance of any single structure in Camden has been far less damaging to the city's viability than the wholesale clearance of blocks along Broadway, Mickle, Federal, and Market between the Delaware River and 10th Street. http://bit.ly/Pir3QW

The Camden County Parks Department and Parks Police received a report of an alleged 3-foot reptile in the Cooper River during the week of 6/4/12.  Following through on standard operating procedure, the State Division of Fish and Wildlife’s Law Enforcement Bureau were contacted to conduct an investigation.  The Cooper River and surrounding park are safe and open to the public.   If you have any information regarding this incident, call the Division of the State Fish and Wildlife at (856) 629-0555.

With its his­tor­ic boathouses and mon­u­ment to Olym­pic gold med­al­ist John B. Kel­ly, the Schuylkill has been at the epi­cen­ter of Amer­i­can row­ing going back to the 19th cen­tu­ry. But when it comes to the realities of mod­ern racing many race or­gan­iz­ers now­a­days head across the Ben Frank­lin Bridge to the Coop­er River. The riv­er got its big break in 1993 when Lake On­on­da­ga in Up­state New York flooded, prompting or­gan­iz­ers of the In­ter­col­le­giate Row­ing Association cham­pi­on­ship to find an al­ter­nate race site. With­in two years, the Camden County riv­er had be­come the fixed site for what most con­sid­er col­lege row­ing’s most im­por­tant race.  http://bit.ly/KicvjW

The Moorestown Township Council is under orders to introduce its municipal budget or else. If it fails to introduce a municipal spending plan by the end of next week, each of the five members will be fined $25 a day until the job is done. Thomas Neff, director of the New Jersey Division of Local Government Services, gave council until Friday to crunch the numbers and come up with a plan and a tax levy. Thirty-eight other municipalities out of the state's 566 recently received the same notice of tardiness. http://bit.ly/LjGF8a

With its his­tor­ic boathouses and mon­u­ment to Olym­pic gold med­al­ist John B. Kel­ly, the Schuylkill has been at the epi­cen­ter of Amer­i­can row­ing going back to the 19th cen­tu­ry. But when it comes to the realities of mod­ern racing many race or­gan­iz­ers now­a­days head across the Ben Frank­lin Bridge to the Coop­er River. The riv­er got its big break in 1993 when Lake On­on­da­ga in Up­state New York flooded, prompting or­gan­iz­ers of the In­ter­col­le­giate Row­ing Association cham­pi­on­ship to find an al­ter­nate race site. With­in two years, the Camden County riv­er had be­come the fixed site for what most con­sid­er col­lege row­ing’s most im­por­tant race.  http://bit.ly/KicvjW

Retired four-star admiral and Merchantville native William J. Fallon delivered the keynote address on May 26th at the dedication of the Camden County Veterans Cemetery at Harleigh, an eight-acre section reserved to provide Camden County veterans with a place of honor and dignity. Established in 1885, Harleigh is currently the final resting place for hundreds of veterans, including more than 300 who served in the Civil War