The Third Annual Back the Blue Jeep Ride will be taking place this year on Saturday, October 13, 2018. We will be meeting at the Cherry Hill Mall again this year in the back parking lot behind JC Penny’s and Macy’s around 8:00 a.m. and leave the mall parking lot by 9:30 am. Please be there early and ready to roll out at 9:30 am. Our plan again this year is to visit a few different police departments and just shake the officers hands and thank them for what they do everyday. This event gets bigger and better each year. Please share and pass this around to all your friends and let’s make this year even bigger than last year! 

Two families are at least temporarily displaced after a fire ripped through one half of a duplex in Cherry Hill Sunday afternoon. Cherry Hill Fire Department called all hands to the fire around 12:30 p.m., at the dead end of Orchard Avenue near the Merchantville line. Assistant Fire Chief Chris Callan said it took firefighter 28 minutes to knock down the fire, which mostly affected the second and third floors on one side of the building. Callan said no one was home on the side of the duplex where the fire started, but the family that lived in the other half was home, and evacuated the house into the rainy afternoon. No one was injured. https://www.nj.com/camden/index.ssf/2018/09/all-hands_fire_in_south_jersey_displaces_families.html

An upscale food market — once expected to arrive here by the spring of 2015 and again by early 2016 — is finally opening this week. The arrival of McFarlan’s Market fulfills a vision for its husband-and-wife operators — and for borough officials who have long sought to reclaim a blighted property in the downtown business district. “We’re excited — and terrified,” said Peter Burgess, who with his wife, Janet Stevens, invested more than $1 million in the project. https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/news/local/south-jersey/2018/09/19/mcfarlans-market-opens-haddon-avenue-collingswood/1346196002/

Pennsauken Township recently announced that they have received a $200,000 design assistance grant from NJ DOT for a multi-use trail connecting Merchantville with Pennsauken. This award combined with an award received in 2015 will provide almost one million dollars to fund the project. This new project will begin at the junction of Cove Road and East Chestnut Avenue, and extend to Bethel Avenue in Pennsauken. The project is expected to be completed in 2019 and will include installation of crosswalks, lights, benches and path beautification.

Two families are at least temporarily displaced after a fire ripped through one half of a duplex in Cherry Hill Sunday afternoon. Cherry Hill Fire Department called all hands to the fire around 12:30 p.m., at the dead end of Orchard Avenue near the Merchantville line. Assistant Fire Chief Chris Callan said it took firefighter 28 minutes to knock down the fire, which mostly affected the second and third floors on one side of the building. Callan said no one was home on the side of the duplex where the fire started, but the family that lived in the other half was home, and evacuated the house into the rainy afternoon. No one was injured. https://www.nj.com/camden/index.ssf/2018/09/all-hands_fire_in_south_jersey_displaces_families.html

A6 ABC News covered a South Jersey community puting on a touching display overnight to remember the lives lost in the September 11th terrorist attacks, 17 years ago today. First responders and Pennsauken residents prayed together at the 9/11 memorial on Route 130 and Merchantville Avenue. Before that, the volunteers put out 2,997 American flags on the grounds of the memorial -- one for each life lost. https://6abc.com/community-events/pennsauken-first-responders-residents-remember-lives-lost-in-9-11-attacks/4209479/