Sunday, May 20, 2012
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This week in Collingswood, you can get an education on almost anything at a new shop, county officials refuse to release info on a local SWAT bust, and Mayor Maley dishes on Moody's again.
Check out the new Haddon Avenue offering, where you can learn about hair blowouts one day and landscaping the next. Authorities are staying tight-lipped on last week’s police activity in town. If you’re reading this early enough on Sunday, it’s not too late to check out the Porch Brunch and Garden Tour around Collingswood. Do you plan to raise a pint in Haddon Township for Pub Fest? The state wants to know third-graders’ deepest secrets. Over the line? “My God, Greece has a better rating than we do,” Collingswood Mayor James Maley said. Give a Patch shout out to your new Camden County College grads! Going down the shore? Hit up our guide for info on parking, beach tags, the best places to visit and more.
The school conferred degrees on more than 1,700 graduates Saturday.
Camden County College celebrated its 44th commencement Saturday by awarding degrees to more than 1,700 students across a wide variety of disciplines. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) delivered the graduation address. Check out Patch's photo gallery and upload your own. You can also give your graduate a shout out on Patch.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Short on grammar, long on finger-pointing, a new Facebook page is shaming Jersey drivers for their questionable parking skills.
Complaints about parking in Collingswood typically center on its availability (or lack thereof), and not necessarily how well it's executed. But creep over the line, park in a handicap spot, or swing your tail end too far into traffic, and a new Facebook page, "You Park Stupid," might just call you out on that decision. The page was started by Somerville, NJ resident John Flores, who was getting ticked off when he kept seeing the same bad parking job while visiting his father at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston. "Some days they were parked OK, but most days they were parked awfully," Flores said. "I shared photos on my personal wall and got a lot of friends talking about it. That's when the lightbulb went off and the small group …
Friday, May 18, 2012
Be prepared to face the music if anyone in your car doesn't buckle up. Several towns have extra money for seat belt checkpoints from May 21 through June 2.
Bellmawr, Berlin, Gloucester City, Haddon Heights, Merchantville, Pennsauken, Pine Hill, and Winslow. Those are the Camden County towns in which local law enforcement has been awarded additional funds for policing seatbelt safety through motor vehicle stops. (The New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety, or NJDHTS, also provides a complete list of participating municipalities.) According to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA), more than 22,000 motorists and their passengers were killed in car accidents in 2010. More than half were not wearing seat belts. Memorial Day weekend is one of the most heavily traveled weekends of the year, and motorists need to be careful, said Division of Highway Traffic Safety …
Camden County College's 44th annual graduation will be held Saturday.
The 44th annual graduation ceremony at Camden County College will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Blackwood campus of the school. The Gloucester Township, Collingswood and Haddonfield Patch sites invite graduates and their families to share photographs from the Camden County College graduation ceremony by posting them to this article. U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez will deliver Camden County College's commencement address. You can watch the graduation ceremony on Saturday here. More news on the commencement activities is available here. A complete list of Camden County College's more than 1,700 candidates for graduation, as supplied by the college on Tuesday, follows: Malik Abdullah Kathryn Ablaza David Abrams Crystal Acevedo Sara Acevedo …
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Three-day event offers arts and crafts, food and music as well.
Patch is offering 50-percent off gate ticket prices to the 30th annual Festival of Ballooning in July. But you'll need to act quickly. The discounts are only available through this Sunday, May 20. The festival, held Friday-Sunday, July 27-29, at Solberg Airport in Readington, offers much, much more than ballooning. There are rides, an arts and crafts festival, yoga and Zumba demonstrations, and food—lots of it. Every evening, there will be a music concert and twice each day on Saturday and Sunday and once on Friday, more than 100 balloons will rise majestically into the sky. And Patch will offer all attendees a chance to leave all your troubles behind and take a free tethered balloon ride. Just find our table at the festival and sign up …
Haddon Pub Fest is a time for craft brew lovers to come together and raise their glasses to beer.
Beer lovers, mark your calendars: June 2 brings merry tidings, as a piece of Philly Beer Week saunters over the Walt Whitman Bridge and nestles itself right into the heart of Restaurant Row. That's the day the glorious, soaking-wet stretch of Haddon Avenue between the dry communities of Collingswood and Haddonfield is playing host to Haddon Pub Fest from noon until 6 p.m. Each participating location will spotlight a particular craft beer and host its brewer or distributor. For $10, you can purchase a Pub Fest T-shirt (on sale now at any Pub Fest-participating establishment), which gets you access to special deals, door prizes and other perks. If you like a particular featured brewery and want to bypass the mystery and allure of finding out…
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
McGrory is hoping to compete for gold at the London 2012 Olympic Games this summer.
This article is sponsored by Citi. Amanda McGrory, of Kennett Square, PA, was just five years old when she was diagnosed with a rare disease called transverse myelitis that left her paralyzed from the waist down. But that didn't stop Amanda from becoming a speed demon and by age 10 she started racing with her wheelchair in the hope of becoming a Paralympian. Amanda has become one of the fastest wheelchair marathoners in the world. At the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games, Amanda won the gold medal for the 5,000-meter race, a silver medal for the marathon, bronze for the 800-meter race and bronze for the women's 4x100 meter relay. She also won the 2011 New York City Marathon Women's Wheelchair race. The 25-year-old is now setting her sights on …
Tickets are still available for the annual community-wide fundraiser.
For five years, Robb C. and Eric Sewell-Wolff lived in Burlington Township, in a home they loved, where they didn’t know a soul in the neighborhood. The couple, who love to entertain, discovered that they were spending all their social time in Collingswood, anyway. When a friend informed them he was putting up his house on the corner of Highland and Browning avenues, they took one walk-through and were sold. “Even before we moved in, we met our neighbors and they all welcomed us, arms wide open,” says Eric Sewell-Wolff. “We love the town and we see so much possibility here.” The Sewell-Wolffs hope to impart that same feeling on their guests this Sunday, when they open their home to visitors of the Proud Neighbors of Collingswood Porch …
Shirley
11:34 am on Saturday, May 19, 2012
Many of the cars I see in Collingswood are not so much parked as abandoned nearish the kerb. I guess two feet from the kerb is close enough. However, the most witless, thoughtless parking is at the corner of Maple and Frazier. When picking up children from the Baptist Church day care, one or more drivers feel it's acceptable to park ON THE CURVE of that very busy corner. How can that ever be … more ›