Hometown Living

It’s something less than four acres but the familiar plot of land on Leahy Avenue in Swedesboro is the last significant piece of open land

Deep in the country’s past, on what was once a quiet footpath in the mixed-woods forest just upland from the Nehaunsey brook, there was built

Four decades after it began, Margaret Dombrosky has retired from the career she never intended to have. Dombrosky, who prefers her nickname, ‘Marge”, said goodbye

  You know what a happy Christmas season story is, right? It will have children, of course, and good deeds that help others. There will

James Lavender knows better. The superintendent of Kingsway Regional School District,  Lavender knows that these days, it’s impossible to ignore the accounts, media stories, first-hand

Sometimes if you’re walking past the beautiful old stone structure of St. Clare of Assisi Church in Swedesboro, if the wind is quiet and the

Educators, parents and taxpayers have seen an intense grass-roots push this past year as a decades-long battle for state funds to school districts nearly shut

  The official name for the imposing new utility poles popping up (literally, ‘up’, as in ‘higher’) along roads and fields and yards from Paulsboro

For many of the previous generations of farm families in South Jersey whose labor went into the land and whose income came out of it,

Decided what you’re going to do this summer? Get-away-from-it-all tourism? Day trips for family time? Water and beach on the coast? Hiking, biking, boating, bird-watching,