A lot of people say they have no intention of retiring as they approach 60. But Donna Martin, of Port Republic, really means it.
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.
Architectural historian Joan Berkey lived without a laundry room for three years, hauling her dirty clothes to a Laundromat about 10 miles away.
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.
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.
MARGATE - The mayor and schools superintendent stressed Tuesday there is no plan to close the Eugene A. Tighe Middle School.
A Stafford Township man has been arrested and charged with stealing prescription narcotics from the hospital where he works as a nurse.
Counselor Marguerite Heaton-Colella believes in the old adages "Familiarity breeds contempt" and "Absence makes the heart grow fonder."
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.
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.
She’s billed as the “Sweetheart Songstress of Hammonton,” with a voice powerful enough to play Judy Garland in a casino Legends show.
Eunice Littley, of Galloway Township, became an Army nurse during World War II, right after graduating as a registered nurse.
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.
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.
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.
Friends call her the Lady in Red.
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.
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.
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.
One thing that really makes Joey Lockwood happy these days is getting mail.
Most people feel lucky if they work with people they like. But Northfield's Dennis McCabe works with someone willing to save his life.
Fans of "Whale Wars" on Animal Planet will see the camera work of Ryan Garner, 33, of Egg Harbor Township next season.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Eleanor Brooks, of Atlantic City, grew up in a tough neighborhood in New York City, she said. But she had an escape.
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.
Jokes are great, but you don’t need them to have a good laugh, said Ann E. Lunetta, of Belleplain in Dennis Township.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Medical esthetician Regina McDonald knows how important looking good is to feeling good.
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.
Ruth Kessler remembers every detail about the last time she saw her mother and 9-year-old sister, even though it happened in 1939.
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.
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.
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.
Cape May-Lewes Ferry Capt. Robert Vance grew up in North Wildwood, where his grandfather and uncle ran party boats.
As she approaches 100, Margaret “Peggy” Lloyd can look back on her many lives.
The new CEO at The Arc of Atlantic County plans to spend his leisure time on the water or under it.
Jimmy Ward, 15, a sophomore at Southern Regional High School, has run through Long Beach Island in two films now.
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.
Prey and predator cavort together on Dave Crawford’s 20-acre Galloway Township property.
Siblings Erick McAllister and Kim Pettit grew up playing school, with big sister Pettit always the teacher.
Imagine being introduced to someone who will not look up from an electronic device to say a simple “Hello.”
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.
The week around Valentine’s Day means more than romance to Andy and Rita Weber, of Margate.
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