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- Updated: May 22, 2013 - 12:20 am
- Everyone Has A Story: Mays Landing woman's foundation gives children 'Room for Hope' at hospitals
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As a little girl, Shannon Hartey, of Mays Landing, lived for three years at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, fighting acute myeloblastic leukemia. The lost years were from ages 5 to 8, she said.
- Updated: May 21, 2013 - 7:28 pm
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- Everyone Has A Story: For volunteer EMS technician, saving lives is payment enough
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It took knowledge and problem-solving skills to be a good computer and network technician, and for many years Galloway Township's Scott Risley liked the work. But when he became a volunteer Emergency Medical Service technician in 2005, he found his true calling.
- Updated: May 15, 2013 - 12:42 am
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- Everyone Has a Story: Egg Harbor Township woman is known for her fondness for red
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Friends call her the Lady in Red.
- Posted: May 12, 2013 - 11:42 pm
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- Everyone Has A Story: Mayflower descendents from Upper Township turn 75 years of newsletters into a book
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There were 102 passengers aboard the Mayflower when it left England for the New World in 1620, said Alice Teal, of Marmora in Upper Township.
- Updated: May 12, 2013 - 12:47 am
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- Everyone has a story: Guns play a big role in this family's life
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Gun rights aren't a luxury for lifetime NRA members Carl Morton and his daughter, Carol Tomlin, who live next to each other in rural Woodbine.
- Updated: May 08, 2013 - 1:12 am
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- Hammonton girl fights neurofibromatosis through dance
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Ballet has helped Sara Pavesi, 12, combat the complications of neurofibromatosis, or NF. It’s a disease that affects one in 3,000 people and causes tumors to grow on nerve endings. It also causes scoliosis and low muscle tone.
- Posted: May 05, 2013 - 12:01 am
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- Everyone has a story: Mail brings joy to local autistic boy
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One thing that really makes Joey Lockwood happy these days is getting mail.
- Updated: May 01, 2013 - 1:19 am
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- Everyone has a story: Co-workers to be united by a kidney
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Most people feel lucky if they work with people they like. But Northfield's Dennis McCabe works with someone willing to save his life.
- Posted: April 28, 2013 - 12:00 am
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- Everyone Has a Story: Egg Harbor Township man returns from filming in Antarctic for 'Whale Wars'
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Fans of "Whale Wars" on Animal Planet will see the camera work of Ryan Garner, 33, of Egg Harbor Township next season.
- Posted: April 24, 2013 - 12:00 am
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- Everyone Has A Story: Pleasantville woman's weight loss saga casts her in role of promoter of healthy diet
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At age 8, Pleasantville’s Denise Hillery-Jones was so overweight, her mother had to buy her clothing from the woman’s store Lane Bryant, she said.
- Posted: April 22, 2013 - 12:01 am
- Everyone Has a Story: Heartstrings pulled Absecon woman to unveil her late brother's novel
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Marie Carhart started kindergarten the year her brother, Joseph Egles, started college. With 12 years between them, she didn't really get to know him until they were both adults.
- Posted: April 21, 2013 - 12:01 am
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- Everyone Has A Story: Richard Stockton College's first Fulbright winner ready teach in Czech Republic
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Richard Stockton College of New Jersey's first Fulbright U.S. Student Program winner, Barbara Fisher, 22, plans to get a doctorate in nuclear science and teach the hard sciences at the college level.
- Posted: April 17, 2013 - 12:01 am
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- Sea Isle chief finishes yellow brick road run
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Sea Isle City Police Chief Thomas D'Intino has a yellow brick in his office, and it means a lot to him. It is proof that he completed the grueling 6.1-mile "Yellow Brick Road" endurance course at the FBI's Quantico, Va., National Academy.
- Posted: April 15, 2013 - 12:01 am
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- Everyone Has A Story: Daughter, sea inspire mom's mermaid tale
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Eleanor Brooks, of Atlantic City, grew up in a tough neighborhood in New York City, she said. But she had an escape.
- Posted: April 14, 2013 - 12:00 am
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- Everyone Has a Story: Rowen student from Buena Vista Township adds medical work to engineering
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Rowan University engineering student Charlotte Cecere, of Buena Vista Township, has helped create computer models of airports for the Federal Aviation Administration for the last three years.
- Updated: April 09, 2013 - 11:39 pm
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- Everyone Has a Story: Nurse learns laughter truly best medicine
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Jokes are great, but you don’t need them to have a good laugh, said Ann E. Lunetta, of Belleplain in Dennis Township.
- Updated: April 01, 2013 - 12:06 am
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- Everyone Has a Story: Visiting scholar at Atlantic Cape Community College says older people can learn languages, too
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Children learn new languages quickly because the brain is still growing until about age 20, said Fatjona Rama Lubonja, a visiting scholar at Atlantic Cape Community College.
- Updated: March 31, 2013 - 12:06 am
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- Everyone Has a Story: Two gymnasts who train in Mays Landing to compete at state level
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As a 6-year-old in Guam, where her father was stationed with the U.S. Coast Guard, Jena Johns joined her sisters in gymnastic lessons.
- Posted: March 26, 2013 - 8:28 pm
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- Everyone Has a Story: Stockton student rewarded for Cinderella fashion design
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- Updated: March 25, 2013 - 7:48 am
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- Everyone Has A Story: Egg Harbor Township High student takes up cause against distracted driving
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Egg Harbor Township High School senior Daniel Vaccaro never texted while driving, he said, even before hearing how a distracted driver hit and killed 21-year-old Casey Feldman in 2009.
- Updated: March 24, 2013 - 7:03 pm
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- Everyone Has A Story: Making celebrities sandwiches in Atlantic City stacked up to satisfying career
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For 54 years, Tom Larocca made sandwiches at The White House Sub Shop in Atlantic City — a place where celebrities such as Frank Sinatra, Jerry Lewis and Bill Cosby used to visit regularly.
- Updated: March 20, 2013 - 8:49 am
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- Everyone Has a Story: Atlantic City woman helps people face the world
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Medical esthetician Regina McDonald knows how important looking good is to feeling good.
- Updated: March 18, 2013 - 8:22 am
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- Everyone Has a Story: Galloway Township teen heading to Dominican Republic to help orphans
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Jamie Infanti, of Galloway Township, will travel to a third-world country for the first time this week, helping with projects at the Hogar Escuela Armando Rosenberg school and orphanage in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
- Updated: March 17, 2013 - 8:54 am
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- Everyone Has A Story: Margate woman to speak on being torn from family as Nazis came
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Ruth Kessler remembers every detail about the last time she saw her mother and 9-year-old sister, even though it happened in 1939.
- Updated: March 19, 2013 - 6:44 pm
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- Everyone Has a Story: Hammonton businessman, hero honored
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Before he co-founded Univers Workplace Solutions, Hammonton’s Lou Pantalone, 57, was a professional firefighter. On his “off days” he also worked as a mason, chimney sweep and bass player in a band, he said.
- Updated: March 10, 2013 - 11:42 pm
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- Everyone Has a Story: Vineland man put heart, soul, skin and bones into film
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In a labor of love that lasted more than three years, graphic artist Chuck Schaser has created an animated human body — or at least its animated bones, muscles and skin.
- Updated: March 10, 2013 - 9:15 am
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- Everyone has a Story: Newborn's delivery gives family birthday triple-header
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When Esther Visosky had her daughter 25 years ago on her own birthday of March 7, in the hospital where she had been born, people were amazed. But it wasn’t unheard-of, she said.
- Updated: March 05, 2013 - 6:45 pm
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- Everyone Has a Story: Cape May-Lewes Ferry captain has always loved the water
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Cape May-Lewes Ferry Capt. Robert Vance grew up in North Wildwood, where his grandfather and uncle ran party boats.
- Posted: March 03, 2013 - 5:43 pm
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- Everyone Has a Story: Ocean City woman continues to volunteer, support causes as she nears 100
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As she approaches 100, Margaret “Peggy” Lloyd can look back on her many lives.
- Updated: March 02, 2013 - 10:52 pm
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- Everyone Has a Story: New CEO of The Arc of Atlantic County an ex-Marine who loves the water
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The new CEO at The Arc of Atlantic County plans to spend his leisure time on the water or under it.
- Posted: February 26, 2013 - 6:47 pm
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- Everyone Has a Story: Student, 15, films himself jogging Long Beach Island to show pace of Sandy recovery
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Jimmy Ward, 15, a sophomore at Southern Regional High School, has run through Long Beach Island in two films now.
- Updated: February 24, 2013 - 10:36 pm
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- Everyone Has A Story: Galloway Township woman got comfy in King's chair before meeting his widow
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Hope Gallagher first met Coretta Scott King more than 30 years ago, when she was a teenager on a church trip to Atlanta. Gallagher was visiting the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s home there, which is now part of the National Park Service.
- Posted: February 24, 2013 - 12:00 am
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- Everyone Has a Story: Galloway Township man creates forest of chain saw-carved wooden creatures on his lawn
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Prey and predator cavort together on Dave Crawford’s 20-acre Galloway Township property.
- Updated: February 20, 2013 - 8:59 am
- Everyone Has a Story: Cape May County siblings win Teacher of the Year honors in Atlantic County
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Siblings Erick McAllister and Kim Pettit grew up playing school, with big sister Pettit always the teacher.
- Updated: February 18, 2013 - 8:43 am
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- Everyone Has a Story: Diners asked to put away tech devices at Somers Point restaurant
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Imagine being introduced to someone who will not look up from an electronic device to say a simple “Hello.”
- Posted: February 16, 2013 - 7:59 pm
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- Dennisville bulldog wins at Westminster
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Veterinarian Terri Marks, who runs the SouthPaw Animal Hospital in Cape May Court House, said she had great success last week showing her French bulldog, Bella, in the Super Bowl of dog shows.
- Posted: February 12, 2013 - 6:19 pm
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- Everybody Has A Story: Margate wife's best gift of love ever: Her kidney
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The week around Valentine’s Day means more than romance to Andy and Rita Weber, of Margate.
- Posted: February 11, 2013 - 12:00 am
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- Everyone has a story: West Cape May carpenter builds interest in yoga for men
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West Cape May’s Mark Jacopec, 58, was a carpenter and professional drum circle teacher when he took up yoga about 17 years ago and saw his flexibility improve dramatically.
- Posted: February 09, 2013 - 11:34 pm
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- Ocean City man in Super Bowl commercial
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Jon Baltz, of Ocean City, was watching the Super Bowl last Sunday when a familiar face showed up on the screen, in a Calvin Klein underwear commercial.
- Posted: February 05, 2013 - 6:51 pm
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- Bay Gals artists inspire each other
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For decades, while she worked and raised her family, Irene Ganter, of Upper Deefield Township, had little time for artistic pursuits.
- Updated: February 04, 2013 - 8:34 am
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- Everyone Has a Story: While teaching children golf, Egg Harbor Township man keeps another iron in the fire
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At age 26, Andrew Madsen remembers what it was like to be a kid learning to play golf. He started at age 4.
- Updated: February 03, 2013 - 12:34 am
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- Teacher shares recipe for literacy in her 'cookbook'
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A Princeton University degree in comparative literature gave her mastery of her subject, said former Southern Regional High School English teacher Sarah Tantillo, 47. But it didn’t prepare her to be a teacher.
- Posted: January 29, 2013 - 6:36 pm
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- Miss New Jersey Outstanding Teen proudly promotes sex abstinence
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Alyssa Sullivan, of Cape May Court House, didn’t shy away from controversy when she picked her platform for competing in scholarship pageants. She chose promoting sexual abstinence until marriage, she said.
- Updated: January 28, 2013 - 11:21 pm
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- Everyone Has a Story: Wind power propels Ocean County students in science competition
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No single student takes credit for coming up with the name “Breaking Wind” for the group that just won a national science competition by showing that hooking up to wind power can extend the life of hybrid car batteries.
- Posted: January 27, 2013 - 12:00 am
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- Ocean City musician to perform new album
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Singer, pianist and composer Andrew Hink, of Ocean City, has been riding NJ Transit trains for years between Philadelphia and the Jersey Shore.
- Posted: January 23, 2013 - 12:22 am
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- Retired Cape woman still helping folks buy homes
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After 38 years with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development office, where she helped low-income families buy homes in Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland counties, Sandra Jensen retired this month.
- Posted: January 20, 2013 - 6:09 pm
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- Everyone has a Story: Dance sweeps young athlete, hunter, off his feet
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He has been a hunter for years, and played lacrosse for two years at Vineland High School, but when he had to make a choice, Dean Maffei went all out for dance.
- Posted: January 16, 2013 - 12:02 am
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- Coast Guard leader in Atlantic City started there
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You might say Lt. C.K. Moore, the new commanding officer at Coast Guard Station Atlantic City, was born to his job. The ‘C.’ stands for Commander.
- Updated: January 14, 2013 - 8:51 am
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- Everyone Has a Story: Student chef from Margate ready to show he can take the heat at competition in New York
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Margate’s Joe Mikitish, 23, came to the Academy of Culinary Arts at Atlantic Cape Community College with a college degree in business management already under his belt.
- Updated: January 13, 2013 - 9:43 am
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- Everyone Has a Story: Nearing 90, real estate agent to retire
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Future actress and real-life princess Grace Kelly was a younger kid in Marilyn Moore’s social circle growing up, when both Pennsylvania girls would spend summers in Ocean City. The resort was so small then, all the residents knew each other, she said.
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