Monday, May 20, 2013
Get your first look at the trail network 6 p.m. on May 29 at the Camden County Boathouse.
The following was submitted by the Camden County Board of Chosen Freeholders. The Freeholder Board invites residents to review the final draft of the Camden County Bicycle and Multi-Use Trail Master Plan. The latest plans for the multi-phase project will be presented to the public on May 29 at the Camden County Boathouse at Cooper River Park in Pennsauken at 6:00 p.m. “The trail network will provide County residents with new recreational opportunities, while creating an alternative means of transportation between destinations such as schools, shopping centers, parks and recreation facilities, and historic sites, both within each municipality and throughout the county,” said Freeholder Jeffrey L. Nash, liaison to the Department of Parks. …
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
The county will provide this service from 9 a.m. to noon in the interests of helping residents preserve their personal information.
Camden County submitted the following news release: To help in the fight against identity theft, the Camden County Freeholder Board is sponsoring a free shredding day for Camden County residents wanting to destroy documents containing personal information. On Saturday, May 11 from 9 a.m. to noon, industrial-sized shredder trucks will be in the parking lot of Camden County College on Peter Cheeseman Road in Gloucester Township to destroy private documents. “This is a great opportunity to shred the personal documents that we all save rather than throw in the trash and run the risk of identity theft,” said Freeholder Director Louis Cappelli, Jr. “Camden County employees have volunteered their time to be on hand to assist residents with the …
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
From forklift drivers to home care workers, preview the list of employers and available positions here.
Brush up those resumes and press that suit, job-seekers: the Scottish Rite Theater in Collingswood will play host to a countywide job fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday. With more than 100 companies hiring, “This is a great opportunity for employers to gain access to a local ready and willing workforce,” said Freeholder Director Louis Cappelli Jr. in a statement. The Spring Job Fair is sponsored by the Camden County Freeholders as well as the Camden County One-Stop Resource Center, which provides job-seeking strategies and assistance with resume writing and training. A full list of participating employers includes:
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Touting 'Collingswood's exceptional lifestyle attributes,' developer Brad Ingerman hosted a formal launch reception for the property that was attended by local and state leaders.
It’s a far cry from his current headquarters near the “prominent Cherry Hill location of The Inn of the Dove,” said real estate developer Brad Ingerman, but when it’s completed—sometime in the next year or so—the new digs in Collingswood should do just fine. The President and CEO of the Ingerman Group, which is handling the final two phases of the LumberYard redevelopment, told a crowd of media and supporters Wednesday afternoon that the project will be the 86th the company has undertaken, and promised it will be “as good if not better than anything we’ve done to date.” Ingerman spoke of his desire to be “contributing to the vibrancy of this little town.” He invoked “the pride of Collingswood” as a key determinant in the success of The …
Fire Chief Keith Davis says the county is providing new 700 MHz devices that will replace its existing technology at no cost to the borough.
It's the difference between talking to someone outside the building and talking to someone across the county, Collingswood Fire Chief Keith Davis said. That's the order-of-magnitude improvement that the new radios to which the department is upgrading offer. As part of an overhauled Camden County emergency communications system, Collingswood firefighters will receive a one-for-one replacement of their existing radios. Every firefighter is issued a radio, and every firefighting apparatus in the department has a mobile radio and four portable units, Davis said. The new equipment is being issued at no cost to Collingswood, Davis said. It was paid for by a $35 million allocation approved by the Camden County Freeholders in November 2011. The …
Friday, February 8, 2013
County crews are set in place to tackle the snow when it arrives, officials say.
In the calm before the snow, Camden County officials warned residents to use caution and keep the roads clear when plows roll out to combat what’s predicted to be 2 to 5 inches of snow from Friday’s nor’easter. More than 60 pieces of equipment are on standby to meet the storm head-on during the changeover to snow Friday night, county officials said, and steps are being taken to lessen the storms’ effects. Still, residents should put off driving Friday night, if at all possible, county officials said. “Even though county crews are brining roads in advance of the storm, we still remind motorists to remain cautious and give themselves extra time to reach their destinations tonight,” freeholder Ian Leonard, liaison to Public Works, said in a …
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Rain during the day Friday will change to snow around the evening commute, making travel treacherous, the National Weather Service forecasts.
With the National Weather Service (NWS) calling for a nor'easter to bring a mix of rain and snow and hazardous conditions through the Friday evening commute, Camden County officials said they’re prepared to tackle the coming nor’easter head-on as soon as it slams into the area. The NWS Mount Holly office issued a winter weather advisory Thursday afternoon, in effect from 5 p.m. Friday through 6 a.m. Saturday, calling for as much as 5 inches of snow in a storm the weather service warned could be intense Friday night. The worst of the storm should hit right around rush hour, the NWS warning said, with rain changing over to wet snow late in the day Friday. The snow could intensify into Friday night, the NWS warned, with accumulations of 1 to …
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
The nearest will be held at the Homestead Community Center in Pennsauken from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The following press release was issued by the Camden County Freeholders. (Gloucester Twp) - Due to the continued and aggressive flu season, the Camden County Freeholders have scheduled additional Seasonal Influenza Immunization locations. Residents are reminded that it is not too late to get a flu shot. While the target population for the college events is the student body, members of the general public are welcome to attend. The clinics will provide a necessary public health service for residents that have not received their flu shots and make sure businesses stay productive with healthy employees. “The best way to avoid getting the flu is to get immunized,” said Freeholder Carmen Rodriguez, liaison to the Camden County Health Department…
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Camden County Freeholder Director Louis Cappelli Jr. called the move a failure of leadership that 'defies logic,' and promised new officer trainees will hit the streets in March.
Rank-and-file members of the Camden City Fraternal Order of Police voted down a proposal from the Camden County Freeholders to join the Camden County Metro Police Division or forfeit their years of service on the job. The offer failed to pass by a measure of 142-62 on Thursday, with 204 of 234 members voting. That final tally means that the police union in the most dangerous city in America will try its luck challenging the labor reorganization in the court system, as an April 30 deadline to dissolve the city force in favor of a countywide Metro Division looms. The deal on the table Thursday would have created a special exception allowing for as much as 100 percent of the current department to be hired by the Metro Division while …
Will the deal have a big impact on crime for Camden County residents? According to two veteran officers, the outcome is uncertain.
After 27 years with the Camden City Police Department, Richard Desmond has been through layoffs, labor negotiations, and general unpleasantness on the job. As a retired sergeant, he heads up the Emerald Society drum and bagpipe band, a ceremonial outfit he says has played at funeral services for more than 400 police officers and firefighters up and down the east coast. But burying the Camden City P.D. to make way for the countywide Metro Division is a deal he thinks will ultimately create a force that, even if larger, is no cheaper and far less experienced than the current corps of men and women policing the city. Far from the fight-'em-there mentality of the Camden County Freeholders—which has promised that a larger force will contain the…
Mel Sharples
2:36 pm on Tuesday, May 21, 2013
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