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Dr. Frank DeMaio, a Vineland legend 90 years in the making, has passed away

ShopRite is expanding the size and options at its Glassboro store at a cost of almost $15 million to meet evolving demands in how people shop.

New Jersey has established six classes of legal cannabis business activities. Logan zoning under the ordinance now will permit Class 2 businesses, those that manufacture, prepare, and package products. The other categories the state recognizes are: Class 1, growing and cultivating; Class 3, wholesale; Class 4, distribution of plants in bulk from one licensed cultivator to another, or items in bulk from one business to another; Class 5, retailer/consumer sales; and Class 6, courier services for ...

“In other words, members of the supervisory staff should work ‘down’ and man posts for this 24/7 operation, including weekends and holidays,” the letter states. “A reasonable person, such as an experienced warden, would mandate such occurrences but apparently such course of action has either been simply neglected and/or intentionally avoided.” County Commissioners Director Joseph Derella responded that Alterman was being “disingenuous” about how staff assignments are made and is...

There were no injuries reported. Joe Smith is a N.E. Philly native transplanted to South Jersey more than 30 years ago, keeping an eye now on government in South Jersey. He is a former editor and current senior staff writer for The Daily Journal in Vineland, Courier-Post in Cherry Hill, and the Burlington County Times. Have a tip? Reach out at (856) 563-5252 or jsmith@thedailyjournal.com or follow me on Twitter, @jpsmith-dj. Help support local journalism with a subscription. View Comments Do N...

View Comments VINELAND – A 10-year-old girl was fatally wounded late Sunday night in what authorities believe was a drive-by shooting, according to the Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office. Prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae in a statement Monday afternoon said the child was shot at a home in the 700 block of West Earl Drive. City police were sent at about 11:17 p.m. Sunday to Inspira Medical Center Vineland for a report of a gunshot victim. “Investigators are working to determine who was t...

The roughly 57-acre site, largely created from two farm parcels, is immediately behind North Main Street and between Woodland Avenue and Swedesboro Road. Harrison presently only has one age-restricted community, also in Mullica Hill. Mayor Louis Manzo thinks adult housing is the best option for the site and has defended the project against critics. Commercial as well as residential developers have had eyes on the area for a long time with less attractive ideas, he said. “That parcel, it’s ...

Four days and two arrests after a deadly Fairfield shooting at a late-night house party, investigators have not named a motive or suspects.

The warehouses would go up in phases and in total offer almost 2.18 million square feet of storage space and about 1,385 parking spaces. W.H. Development LLC of Carlstadt obtained its final site plan approval from the Joint Land Use Board at its May 20 hearing. It will be a month or possibly two months before that board meets again to vote on the official resolution of approval, a township official said. The Turnpike Authority also gets to review the plan. At the hearing, the authority register...

The county Board of Elections will have double the number of voting booths it had in 2020, thanks to an order county government placed at the end of April. The county, using grant funds, bought 114 voting booths that will be distributed to all 92 districts in the county. Half of those booths are designed for use by those with disabilities. “There’ll actually be two in every district,” elections board Executive Director Lizbeth Hernandez said Monday. “Because there’s going to be one re...