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.
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.
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.
For decades, while she worked and raised her family, Irene Ganter, of Upper Deefield Township, had little time for artistic pursuits.
At age 26, Andrew Madsen remembers what it was like to be a kid learning to play golf. He started at age 4.
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.
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.
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.
Singer, pianist and composer Andrew Hink, of Ocean City, has been riding NJ Transit trains for years between Philadelphia and the Jersey Shore.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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