Pennsauken Lions Club Gives Back To Community
At a recent meeting, the Pennsauken Lions Club voted to give $500 towards the playground that the Merchantville PTA is attempting to fund and build for the students and residents around the Merchantville School. During the same meeting, the Club…
Book And Tech Sale, Annual Raffle Kick Off This Month
By Arlene Miller, Friends of the Pennsauken Free Public Library If you haven’t had time to donate items for the Friends of the Pennsauken Free Public Library’s upcoming book and tech sale, don’t fret. There’s still time to bring books,…
Pennsauken Car Show A Roaring Success
Special Submission By Joe Cooney, JoeCooneyBiz.com The 23rd Annual Pennsauken Car, Bike and Craft Show varoomed into town Sept. 20 with almost 200 classic cars and a few dozen souped-up-to-the-max motorcycles. A gorgeous late-summer day greeted the 2,000-plus crowd that…
Woman’s Club Holds Meetings, Fundraisers In October
The Evening Membership of the Woman’s Club of Merchantville will hold their monthly meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 13 at the Merchantville Community Center, 212 Somerset Ave., at 7:00 p.m. There will be an origami workshop and light refreshments. The Woman’s…
Skeletal Discoveries At Griffith Morgan House
By Robert Fisher-Hughes, AAP Columnist and Amateur Historian Five years after Pennsauken Township was created, a macabre mystery was literally unearthed at our own historic Griffith Morgan House, situated in the community known then as Morris Station. Evanescent as a…
Organic Or Synthetic Plant Food: Is There A Difference?
By Kathleen Harvey, Owner, Plant Artistry, LLC When I first met my honey and saw his houseplants, they were sickly things sitting in the corner and on windowsills, desperately trying to survive. I asked him, “What are you feeding those…
Hey Jude! Sharing A Slice Of America With Friends From Overseas
By Judith Kristen, AAP Columnist How do I love thee, Pennsauken… let me count the ways. And here’s how it goes: Andrew’s and my dear friends, Jude and George Inglis from the lovely town of Hull in Yorkshire, England, came…
It’s Tougher To Help When You’re Anonymous
By Rick Taylor, Mayor of Pennsauken Township “All easy problems have already been solved.” – Anonymous I don’t mind my quotes being anonymous. In fact, that’s part of their charm. However, when I receive an anonymous letter sent to the…
Searching For A New School Superintendent
By the Pennsauken Board of Education: Nick Perry, President; Dung Nguyen, Vice President; Armando Diaz; Michael Hurley; Diane Johnson; Allyson Meloni; Leona Moss; Meg Snyder; and Joann Young The Pennsauken Board of Education is currently gearing up for an extremely…
Dying, Death, And Way Too Many Places To Spread The Ashes
By Bob Wagner, AAP Columnist The obituaries. My grandfather called it the Irish sports page. In fact, the obits are the reason my wife and I get up in the morning. First one to the paper gets to yell to…