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Lightning to Open Season at Bridgeport Tournament on Nov. 10 and Nov. 11 WILMINGTON, Del. – A challenging 26-game regular season schedule, which includes a pair of in-season tournaments and 11 home games, awaits for the Goldey-Beacom College men’s basketball team for the 2012-13 season as announced by Coach Chuck Hammond. “With the quality of the teams in our conference getting better every year and a tough non-conference schedule, our players will be tested early...
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(TRENTON) – Senator Bob Gordon and Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle, the lead sponsors of the bipartisan Port Authority Transparency and Accountability Act, on Thursday called Governor Christie’s conditional veto of the measure irresponsible and nonsensical, questioning why the Governor would continue to protect the scandal-ridden, multi-billion dollar agency. The lawmakers pointed out that any measures governing the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey require identical legislation to be approved by both states, and...
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Trenton— Senate Labor Committee member Dawn Marie Addiego (R- Burlington/Camden/Atlantic) issued the following statement praising the committee's advancement of SCR-110, legislation reversing the Supreme Court's decision on judicial benefit cost sharing: The state's pension funds are in serious financial trouble, and the burden of making them solvent should not fall exclusively upon the taxpayers of New Jersey. Judges should share in the sacrifice needed to save their retirement system just like every other public employee....
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Good afternoon -- When the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve, taxes are scheduled to go up for 114 million middle-class families, leaving a typical family of four paying an extra $2,200 in 2013. Preventing this from happening is critical -- not just for individual people but for our overall economic recovery -- and nearly everyone in Washington agrees we need to do something about it. We saw that yesterday when Republicans and Democrats...
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First it was cat colonies, now tent vagrants? What next? I’m not surprised to hear about this. We are constantly seeing the influx of hundreds of people coming to sports/events over the course of a year at the Recreation Center, including some from out of state. Since there is no one controlling this, there is no control over who is coming into our neighborhoods. No one knows what these people are looking at, and, perhaps...
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Rutgers is hosting 87 motivated, high-achieving high school students in this year’s New Jersey Governor’s School of Engineering and Technology. Groups of scholars will describe and demonstrate the 25 projects they worked on during the four-week session on the last day of the program, Friday, July 27. Projects include finding ways to improve chronic wounds and developing technology for renewable energy and wastewater treatment. In addition to working on projects, Governor’s School scholars also attend...
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I read with interest the articles in the July 12th issue of the Gloucester City News asking the CNBNEWS.NET PHOTO question "Who's that Lady?" statue found in Proprietor's Park at the river on King Street. Back in the late 1940s and early 1950s when we were pre-teens, my brother John Durkin and I, along with Chucky Barber, Ray and Bill Friedhoff, Fred Bokar, Tom Mc Govern, Gordy Thomas and others, played in that park after...
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Yesterday, the Senate narrowly voted (51-48) to raise taxes on 1.2 million small businesses, which will likely kill more than 700,000 jobs at a time when nearly 13 million Americans are out of work. Senators Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Jim Webb (D-VA) joined all Republicans in bipartisan opposition to the tax hike. This is President Obama’s economic plan. This is what he asked Congress to do. And he recently told a fundraising crowd that his...
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On July 21, 2012. Age 60. Of Pine Hill. Loving Brother of Herman M. Punihaole and wife Belinda of Carlisle, PA, Lowell J. Punihaole of Kuwait, Christina Punihaole and husband Fred of Voorhees and Rita Punihaole of Maple Shade. Survived by nieces and nephews. Cremation, Catholic Rite of Committal and Inurnment with his late mother, Karen Anita will be private at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Berlin, Funeral Arrangements and Inquiries may be made through: McCann-Healey...
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Eric Craig Schwartz, 54, of Philadelphia, PA, formerly of Cherry Hill, NJ died July 24, at VITAS Innovative Hospice Care Inpatient Unit. Mr. Schwartz was born August 26, 1957 in New York City. Throughout his life he enjoyed his love of photography and graduated with honors from Antonelli School of Photography. He was a longtime employee of a court reporting firm. He was an avid sports fan and always loved a heated sports discussion with...
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On July 23, 2011. Age 56. Of Gloucester City. Loving brother of Bonnie Auxer, Theresa Brooks (John) and Curtis Burg (Joann). Also survived by many loving nieces and nephews. Edward proudly served our country in the U.S. Air Force from 1973 to 1974. He attended the Townsend C. Young VFW Post #3620 in Gloucester City. Relatives and friends are invited to his viewing on Thursday morning from 10 to 11 AM at the McCANN-HEALEY FUNERAL...
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(CNSNews.com) – A study conducted by health care consulting firm Deloitte and the University of Chicago found that 59 percent of employers think the ObamaCare health reform law is a “step in the wrong direction.” The survey, published on Tuesday, asked 560 businesses of varying sizes their opinions and planned reactions to the impending implementation of the health reform law, the Affordable Care Act. When asked if they thought ObamaCare was a “step in the...
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Starting pitcher Joe Gutowski pitched a brilliant complete-game four-hitter, left fielder Dan Hornyak smacked a grand slam in the fifth, and Bordentown won its opener over Haddon Heights Post 149, 8-1. “It was a huge performance against a powerhouse-hitting team like that,” manager Tom Dolan said of his pitcher’s outing. “Joe was lights out, and he’s very capable of doing that. He stayed on top early, got in pitcher’s counts, and just dominated.” Gutowski allowed...
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(cnbnews.net)Drinking my morning coffee and reading the news online... I headed over to check out the Bellmawr.com website. The site has been steadily improving, and I find that I am learning more and more about the town news and current events by checking out the site regularly. I know someone will point out another town's site which they feel is better, but you can't deny Bellmawr.com has improved over the most recent year(s) with the...
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PHILADELPHIA - La Salle's Meghan McGlinchey (West Deptford, N.J./West Deptford)and Meghan Lutz (Langhorne, Pa./Nazareth Academy) were named to the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches' Assocation (USTFCCCA) national All-Academic Team for the 2011-12 track & field season, announced on Wednesday. McGlinchey and Lutz are two of 676 student-athletes who qualified for the All-Academic Team. A total of 171 institutions are represented. La Salle has had at least one cross country and/or track...
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press release July 25, 2012 Identification of the badly-burned body of a male tractor-trailer driver killed in a collision with a pickup truck in South Harrison Township NJ yesterday (7/24) will require DNA laboratory analysis, which is expected to take about a month. The tractor-trailer carrying roof trusses on a flatbed trailer was traveling north on Route 45 in South Harrison shortly before noon when it struck a pickup truck broadside at the Monroeville Road...
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Even though a black man has been elected to the White House, white people are still being called Racist! Do you know of any other ethnic group that has used the race card as long as African Americans? When is enough, enough? What is it that black people want white people to do? How many decades will this cry of racism from a small group of African Americans be heard? We have politicians that are...
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The 25 high school students participating in the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office’s 10th annual summer intern program tomorrow (7/26) will be shown how crime scene and arson/bomb investigations are conducted as part of their month-long introduction to the law enforcement and criminal justice systems. Thursday’s day-long session will be held at the Gloucester County Fire Academy in Clarksboro NJ. The intern schedule for tomorrow and the remainder of the program is attached to this e-mail....
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press release July 25, 2012 CAMDEN, NJ—Special agents of the FBI arrested a former Pennsville, New Jersey Police officer this morning for allegedly impeding and obstructing the FBI’s investigation of his alleged possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Robert Waterman, 31, of Wrightstown, New Jersey, is charging by Indictment with one count of obstruction of justice. He is scheduled to appear this afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Joel Schneider in Camden...
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Former Hawk Debbie Black will be inducted into the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame on November 8. July 19, 2012 PHILADELPHIA - Former Saint Joseph's women's basketball standout Debbie Black has been named one of 16 inductees into the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2012, organization officials announced Thursday afternoon. Arguably the top all-around female athlete in the history of Saint Joseph's University, Debbie Black helped to lead the Hawks to four consecutive...
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to Historic Whitall House (National Park, NJ) – A partnership forged between Gloucester County and Rowan University has yielded a new Fellowship position that will enhance preservation efforts and programming at Red Bank Battlefield’s Whitall House historic site. The Fellowship is named in memory of Megan M. Giordano of Gibbstown, a curator for the Gloucester County Department of Parks And Recreation at the Red Bank Battlefield in National Park, who passed away in May 2011....
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PHILADELPHIA - Recent La Salle graduate Terence McPeak (Audubon, N.J./Gloucester Catholic) and rising senior Paul Reilly (Dresher, Pa./Upper Dublin) have been named to the national All-Academic Team, announced by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) on Tuesday. There are 431 All-Academic honorees representing 148 institutions. La Salle has had at least one cross country and/or track & field honoree each year since 1998. McPeak is a nine-time Atlantic 10...
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WEST WINDSOR — Brooklawn Post No. 72 Red lived up to its reputation in yesterday’s opening game of the District 3 American Legion 19-and-under baseball tournament. West Windsor-Plainsboro will get another chance to show what it has tomorrow. West Windsor-Plainsboro lost 6-0 at Mercer County Park to last year’s World Series entry. Although out-hitting the club from Camden County, the locals were shut down by fundamentals and heads-up baseball. The 25-time state champions came up...
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press release Behind Offshore Wind Farms in the Atlantic Ocean (Trenton) -- Today, 217 environmental groups, conservationists, labor organizations, clean energy advocates, businesses, faith leaders, and local and state officials from up and down the Atlantic Coast united to call for bold action to accelerate offshore wind development along the Atlantic seaboard. The coalition released a letter to the Obama Administration in an effort to show strong support for efforts made to date and to...
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Camden County College will begin offering high school dropouts throughout the County the opportunity to earn a high school diploma and get a jump start on college through its new Transition to College Program beginning this fall. The expansion of the program was made to address and help students that want to gain their diploma and move on to college. The Transition to College Program will be structured similarly to the year-old Gateway to College...
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How about this Strategic Plan for Camden Public Schools? Allow The Charters and theRenaissance Schools to have the 9-12 High Schools. Apparently Camden High is due to be a Renaissance under Katts. Let Cooper Hospital Foundation have Dr. Brimm Medical Arts High School and build them a new building. It makes sense for a Medical Arts school to be associated with Cooper to prepare for the workplace then Lanning Square Elementary. Maybe then they will...
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State To Fund New Fire Suppression System, Chimney Repairs, At MEC In Gloucester City Mount Ephraim Police Prevent Robbery, Nab Child Pornographer Gloucester Catholic Graduates Wins Emmy Award Brooklawn Borough Council Mulls Creating Website RELATED: Gloucester City High School Graduates Receive $481,000 in Awards and Scholarships-cnbnews.net (gloucestercitynews.net) Letter to the Ed: The Mayor of Gloucester Township is a "Dictator"(gloucestercitynews.net) Change on the Horizon for Post Offices in the South Jersey Area | cnbnews.net (gloucestercitynews.net) Bill's...
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Middletown, July 24, 2012... The Kyrillos Campaign is introducing its first of what will be a weekly series highlighting the many outrages New Jeseryans suffer under the failed tenure of Senator Bob Menendez. Dubbed ‘Outrage of the Week,' today we focus on Senator Menendez’s inability to get our fiscal house in order, which has put America and New Jersey on the edge of a fiscal cliff threatening good paying jobs and holding the security of...
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Starr B. Coleman (nee Toomey), on July 23, 2012, of Bellmawr. Age 60. Beloved wife of George R. Coleman. Devoted mother of Gina Lynn Coleman and the late Heather Lynn Panarello. Daughter of Joseph J. Toomey and the late Ida Toomey. Sister of Joyce MacConnell, Beverly Schotter and Bertha Debus. Also survived by her good friend Denise Williams and many nieces, nephews, grand nieces and grand nephews. Starr worked for the Borough of Bellmawr for...
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HARRISBURG – Hunters interested in learning the age of the bear they harvested during the 2011 seasons can log onto the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s website (www.pgc.state.pa.us). To access the database providing this information, click on “Hunt/Trap” in the menu bar at the top of the page, then click on “Hunting,” scroll down and click on “Black Bear” in the “Big Game” listing, and then scroll down and click on “Black Bear Age Data” in the...
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Albion Athletics Last Updated - July 22, 2012 10:56 GMT Whether the site of competition is Albion’s Sprankle-Sprandel Stadium or the Detroit Tigers’ Comerica Park, Devin Burnett is used to hitting. A starting free safety for Albion’s football team, Burnett is in his fourth season working at Comerica Park as a bat boy in the visitors’ dugout. “Carrying catchers’ gear and chests full of ice and water up and down the flights of stairs between...
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By Angela Fackenthall Gloucester City News On a beautiful summer evening last week, Jayden Tavares smile was shining brightly as he picked his very first red Jersey tomatoes at the Gloucester City Community Garden on Market Street. His mother, Stephanie Pino, thought it would be a good idea for Jayden to join the Garden group and grow vegetables on his very own plot. Jayden, 5, had first learned about plants in his preK-4 class at...
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COOPER LAUDS GLOUCESTER CITY Dear Mayor William James, During last month’s simultaneous heat wave and Water Emergency, Cooper University Hospital was in the portion of Camden experiencing a loss of pressure and service. At the time, Cooper University Hospital had an extremely high volume of patients, many of whom were critically ill or injured, and some of whom were Gloucester City residents. Without the swift and professional service rendered by your Department of Environmental Utilities...
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Rising senior to play for East All-Stars on Saturday PHILADELPHIA – La Salle rising senior Pat Christensen (La Jolla, Calif. / La Jolla)has been named to the Cape Cod League All-Star team, it was announced last week. Christensen, a reliever for the Orleans Firebirds, was named to the East All-Stars, who take on the West contingent on July 28 at Whitehouse Field in Harwich. He is the only Atlantic 10 and Big 5 player named...
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Ewing, NJ…As the head coach of the softball program at Trenton State College, which has since changed its name to The College of New Jersey, Dr. June Walker had a tremendous impact both on the diamond and women’s athletics. The College will permanently honor Dr. Walker, who directed the Lions for 22 seasons, for her contributions and success by naming the current field in her honor. The final stamp for the naming came in early...
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In a disgraceful speech on the Senate floor last Tuesday, Frank Lautenberg accused Charles and David Koch of attempting to “subvert the upcoming election” and apparently called for a boycott of consumer products manufactured by Koch Industries, which he identified by name (Brawny paper towels, Dixie cups, etc.). It turned out that Lautenberg was asking for a boycott of his own constituents — since Georgia-Pacific has operations and employees in that state. Apparently embarrassed by...
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Orazio Anthony Cerami, on July 16, 2012, of Bellmawr. Age 84. Beloved husband of Lillian (nee Prokapus) for 57 years. Loving father of Anthony Cerami, Jeanne Passanante, Carol Trumbetti, Mary Sue Cerami and Nancy Meighan. Dear brother of Marie Laxton and the late Rudy, Joe and Mae Cerami. Devoted grandfather of Steven and Tyler Passanante, Ashley Cerami, and Alyssa, Regina, Ian and Kyle Meighan. Orazio (known to his co workers as Art) worked for the...
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American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, July 21, 2012 – The mass shooting in a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., has claimed the lives of two U.S. service members, according to military officials. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class John Larimer, 27, of Crystal Lake, Ill., and Air Force Staff Sgt. Jesse Childress died from injuries sustained in the incident, officials said. One other sailor was treated for injuries and released at the scene, according to a...
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New York and California enacted the biggest of 40 state tax or fee hikes during the global financial crisis between fiscal years 2009 and 2011, the “Report of the State Budget Crisis Task Force” found in warning that monetary woes are limiting states’ ability to deliver basic services. New York nearly doubled its education spending per student from 1999 to 2009, boosting it to 68 percent above the national average. And the Empire State’s Medicaid...
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source: http://weaselzippers.us WASHINGTON (AP) – Unemployment rates rose in 27 states last month, the most in almost a year. The Labor Department said Friday that unemployment rates fell in 11 states and Washington, D.C. — the fewest declines since August. Rates were unchanged in 12 states. Nationwide, employers added only 80,000 jobs last month, third straight month of weak job growth. The national unemployment rate stayed at 8.2%. Still, 29 states added jobs in June,...
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Volume XVI No.28: July 20, 2012 The MTB is the most popular bill you’ve never heard of. The Miscellaneous Tariff Bill (MTB) is a compendium of more than two thousand tariff waivers which reduce the fees importers pay for a wide range of imported products – from snow globes to sports bras, from capers to dimethyl carbonate polymer with 1,6-hexanediol and 2-oxepanone. Each Congress crafts the bill out of the limelight with only a few...
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Vibrio cholerae (Cholera) (Photo credit: hukuzatuna) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to eat raw or partially cooked oysters and clams (shellfish) with tags listing Oyster Bay Harbor, in Nassau County, N.Y., as the harvest area, following illnesses reported in several states caused by Vibrio parahaemolyticus bacteria. Shellfish harvested from Oyster Bay Harbor have been linked to confirmed and possible cases of Vibrio parahaemolyticus illness. Ill persons reported consumption of raw...
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Camden County Parks are Smoke Free The Camden County Freeholder Board needs your help in keeping Camden County Parks smoke-free. Freeholder Jeffrey Nash held a press conference this week at Berlin Park with The American Cancer Society to launch a public awareness campaign on the park’s no Smoking policy. The Freeholder Board is especially concerned about smoking around the parks’ playgrounds, where children can be affected. Click here for more information and for pictures from...
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Maryland Athletics Last Updated - July 19, 2012 11:34 GMT Contact | Archive | RSS Szefc KSU COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Kansas State associate head coach John Szefc has been hired as the head coach at Maryland, director of athletics Kevin Anderson announced Wednesday. Szefc, who is the seventh head coach in the 120-year history of the program, comes to Maryland with a proven track record as a recruiter and hitting coach. The Middletown, N.Y.,...
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related A GIANT BLACK HOLE FOR TAXPAYERS BUCKS? ONLY IN AMERICA! “I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes,” President Obama, September 12, 2008 Beginning January 1, 2013, ObamaCare imposes a 3.8% Medicare tax on unearned income of “high-income” taxpayers which...
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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Released: 7/19/2012 10:40 AM EDT Source: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Newswise — Tired? Scientists have discovered another possible benefit of a night of restful and uninterrupted sleep. According to a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health fragmented or interrupted sleep could predict future placement in a nursing home or assisted living facility. The study...
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, member of the United States House of Representatives. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The left defies logic yet again. (CNSNews.com) – Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) said on Wednesday that Congress ought to look at imposing a federal tax on soda pop. “We have to address the situation in the marketplace,” DeLauro said at a press conference on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. “Right now, the least expensive beverages are often those with the least...
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By Pete Winn July 18, 2012 Subscribe to Pete Winn's posts CNSNews.com) - Retired Gen. William “Jerry” Boykin, newly installed executive vice president of the Family Research Council, praised the Boy Scouts of America for “standing up for traditional values” by reaffirming the Scout policy barring homosexual scoutmasters and scouts. “I think that we should all be applauding the Boy Scouts and the leadership for the decision that they have made, particularly given the fact...
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Franklin, Greenwich and Woolwich are scheduled for inspections (Franklin Twp., NJ) – Residents in Franklin Township, Greenwich and Woolwich should expect a visit from representatives Appraisal Systems, Inc. (ASI) over the next few months, as the final group of municipalities to undergo revaluations begins. The first step in the revaluation process is the inspection of all properties. Representatives from ASI will be measuring the exterior of all improvements and conducting an interior inspection of homes....
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July 19, 2012 The Archdiocese of Philadelphia Office of Catholic Education announces Dr. Carol A. Cary as the new Superintendent of Secondary Schools and Ms. Jacqueline P. Coccia as the new Superintendent of Elementary Schools effective July 19, 2012. Dr. Cary and Ms. Coccia were chosen to lead the Archdiocese's 17 high schools and 123 elementary schools respectively through an exhaustive search process that included consultation from Dr. John DeFlaminis, Executive Director of the Penn...
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