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- Posted: June 19, 2013 - 3:57 am
- Everybody has a story: She proves it's never too late for a pet career
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A lot of people say they have no intention of retiring as they approach 60. But Donna Martin, of Port Republic, really means it.
- Updated: June 17, 2013 - 6:26 am
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- Everybody has a story: When the going got tough, they came through
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Salvatore DeBunda, a partner in Philadelphia's Archer & Greiner law firm, wasn't looking for another job when Hurricane Sandy hit and gave him one.
- Updated: June 16, 2013 - 1:18 am
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- Everybody has a story: Woman has a passion for preservation
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Architectural historian Joan Berkey lived without a laundry room for three years, hauling her dirty clothes to a Laundromat about 10 miles away.
- Posted: June 12, 2013 - 12:01 am
- Everyone Has A Story: Margate man reflects on life as newscaster
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As a local newsman who also did work for national CBS Radio, Margate's Howard Berger covered everyone from local political boss Sen. Frank "Hap" Farley to President Gerald Ford and his approach to governing after Watergate.
- Posted: June 12, 2013 - 12:01 am
- Everyone Has A Story: Margate man reflects on life as newscaster
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As a local newsman who also did work for national CBS Radio, Margate's Howard Berger covered everyone from local political boss Sen. Frank "Hap" Farley to President Gerald Ford and his approach to governing after Watergate.
- Updated: June 12, 2013 - 12:24 am
- Margate officials dispel idea of school closing
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MARGATE - The mayor and schools superintendent stressed Tuesday there is no plan to close the Eugene A. Tighe Middle School.
- Updated: June 12, 2013 - 12:20 am
- Nurse from Stafford Township accused of drug theft
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A Stafford Township man has been arrested and charged with stealing prescription narcotics from the hospital where he works as a nurse.
- Posted: June 10, 2013 - 12:01 am
- Everyone Has a Story: Marguerite Heaton-Colella teaches old couples new tricks
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Counselor Marguerite Heaton-Colella believes in the old adages "Familiarity breeds contempt" and "Absence makes the heart grow fonder."
- Updated: June 05, 2013 - 12:51 am
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- Everyone Has a Story: Boy who loves mail gets a deluge
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Joey Lockwood, the 11-year old Hammonton boy with autism who loves getting mail, was deluged with birthday letters and packages after a May 5 column about him ran in The Press, said his mom, Colleen Lockwood.
- Updated: June 03, 2013 - 10:55 am
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- Stockton professor gets Fulbright grant to work in Pakistan
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The professor who helped Barbara Fisher, 22, become the first Richard Stockton College of New Jersey student to win a Fulbright award will go to Pakistan this summer on his fourth Fulbright grant.
- Updated: June 04, 2013 - 12:03 am
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- South Jersey's own 'Judy Garland' to sing at Gumbo Cookoff
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She’s billed as the “Sweetheart Songstress of Hammonton,” with a voice powerful enough to play Judy Garland in a casino Legends show.
- Updated: May 27, 2013 - 6:41 am
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- Everyone Has A Story: Army nurse's service during World War II has not been forgotten
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Eunice Littley, of Galloway Township, became an Army nurse during World War II, right after graduating as a registered nurse.
- Updated: May 26, 2013 - 1:06 am
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- Everyone Has a Story: Egg Harbor City bakers featured on 'Cupcake Wars'
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Egg Harbor City bakers Jacquelin and Gina Ciaburri, owners of Simply Sweet Cupcakes on Philadelphia Avenue, were in California filming The Food Network’s “Cupcake Wars” in October. Hurricane Sandy was hitting at home, where their husbands and kids were.
- 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: June 04, 2013 - 12:05 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.
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