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April 20, 2025

TRAFFIC ALERT: Expect Delays

PSE&G will be working on Market Street in Camden from Monday, April 21 to Tuesday, April 22 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will be a lane shift between North 4th and North 5th streets. Crews will be working on Little Gloucester Road in Gloucester Township from Monday, April 21 to Friday, Friday, April 25 from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. There will be a partial road closure between Chews Landing and Blackwood-Clementon roads. South Jersey Gas will be working on Berlin Cross Keys and Watsontown-New Freedom roads from Monday, April 21 to Thursday, April 24 from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. There will be a partial road closure southbound on Berlin Cross Keys Road between Surrey and Oakland avenues, as well as between Olympic Drive and Watsontown-New Freedom Road. There will also be a partial road closure between Watsontown-New Freedom Road and Surrey Avenue and a full road... Read more →


CRISIS LOOMING: FARMERS, STILL WAITING FOR GOVERNMENT HELP PROMISED IN 2024

Willie Nelson, Farm Aid, David Senter, American Agriculture Movement, and National Young Farmers Coalition Issue Letter to Young Farmers in Emerging Farm Crisis Spicewood, Texas (April 17, 2025) The National Young Farmers Coalition joins Willie Nelson, Founder and President of Farm Aid, and David Senter, President of the American Agriculture Movement, in releasing a solidarity letter to young farmers at a moment of emerging farm crisis. Disaster programs that were authorized by Congress at the end of 2024 have not been implemented and are desperately needed. Input costs remain stubbornly high and are increasing with new tariffs. Frozen USDA contracts mean family farmers are owed money for investments they've already made in their farms. In this new statement, Willie Nelson and David Senter reflect on the 1980s Farm Crisis and how it was "political organizing by farmers and those who support them, as well as legal strategy, that ended the... Read more →