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Albert J. Countryman Jr.

Articles by Albert J. Countryman Jr.

Helping to ‘lighten the load’

Since taking over the Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots of Gloucester County program in 2016, Kevin and Shanin Baisch and their dedicated group of volunteers have reached a historic…

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‘I feel like I’m standing alone on an island’

Hundreds of concerned residents packed the Delran Township council chambers on Jan. 31 for a town hall regarding continuous flooding during high tides and rainstorms in the Riverside Park neighborhood.…

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‘We have a great team’

Just 13 years after the Civil War in 1878, the Free Library and Reading Room-Williamstown Memorial Library opened its doors. By 1883, teenage boys could take out a copy of…

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Palmyra girls’ basketball continues charge

The Moorestown Friends campus was busy on the afternoon of Jan. 22, with parents picking up children from 3 years old through 12th grade at campus buildings, a few of…

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‘This is all too familiar’

It just kept raining Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, Jan. 10, and by high tide that afternoon raging water from the Delaware River and its tributaries were flooding homes in…

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Measles case reported in Camden County

One of the greatest medical fears of parents in the early 20th century was a child with measles, a time when some 6,000 deaths a year were caused by the…

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Running through history

This year’s 55th annual Jonas Cattell Memorial 10-mile run is scheduled for Oct. 22. As they run, participants can think of the brave 18-year-old who ran that distance in record…

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Tait begins her second term as mayor

Friends, family, borough officials and police officers packed the Palmyra Borough Council chambers as Mayor Gina Ragomo Tait and Councilwomen Dr. Laura Cloud and Jessica O’Connor took their oaths of…

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Footlight Players at home in Tri-Boro towns

Like medieval troubadours traveling from town to town, the Footlight Players of Palmyra and Riverton put on shows wherever they could for 45 years – Palmyra High School, Riverton Elementary…

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It’s a new year, but hunger doesn’t get old

As a new year begins, hunger continues to afflict struggling families. But thanks to a coalition of 13 churches formed in 1997, more than 20 volunteers with the Greater Woodbury…

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