Category: News Articles
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Salem County resident dies when car overturns
Camden Courier-Post – May 3, 2007 LOGAN – A 61-year-old Salem County man died after the Jaguar he was driving ran off the road and overturned on Interstate 295 Wednesday morning. Robert V. Aceto Jr. of Pilesgrove was declared dead upon officers’ arrival at the scene as a result of injuries suffered in the crash,…
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Transplant Craves Old Diner
Camden Courier-Post – February 23, 2007 By KEVIN RIORDAN MOUNT EPHRAIM — The Harwan Theater is coming down, but the adjacent DiNic’s Roast Beef, a former White Tower restaurant, is moving on. To West Virginia. A self-described “dinerholic” who grew up in Collingswood is paying to have the landmark little eatery picked up and trucked…
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Bishop George Murry Appointed
Catholic New Agency – January 30, 2007 Vatican City, Jan 30, 2007 / 11:10 am (CNA).-Pope Benedict XVI announced Tuesday that the Most Reverend George V. Murry, S.J., has been appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Youngstown in northeastern Ohio. Bishop Murry is currently Bishop of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. “I am honored…
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ELDRED, EDWARD W., III
Of Sicklerville, NJ on November 28, 2006. Aged 63 years. Beloved husband of Helen (nee Miller). Devoted father of Danielle of Sicklerville, Courtney of Maple Shade and Stephen of Williamstown. Dear brother of Janet Eldred and Donna Beideman of Bellmawr. Born and raised in Camden, Ed later moved to Sicklerville with his family where he…
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Obituary for Edward F. Murtaugh
Camden Courier-Post – November 26, 2006 MURTAUGH, EDWARD F. age 59, died suddenly on November 22, 2006. Born in Camden, NJ on January 27, 1947, Ed was a resident of Westmont, NJ where he lived with his wife Colleen, and his stepson Thomas, for the past eight years. Beloved son of the late John J.…
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Fundraiser Set for Slain Clerk’s Family
Camden Courier-Post – November 24, 2006 The Second District Community Collaborative Board, a group of neighborhood and government organizations in Camden, will host a beef-and-beer fundraiser Tuesday for the family of Ambioris Antonio Pena-Duran, the grocery store clerk killed during a robbery in Camden. The fundraiser is scheduled for 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at St.…
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Camden Residents Walk In Fight to Take Back City
Camden Courier-Post – November 21, 2006 By ALAN GUENTHER, Courier-Post Staff Two dozen Camden residents recently took a nighttime walk on the wild side, past rows of abandoned homes, through neighborhoods so infested with crime and drugs that the dark streets are illuminated at night only by flashes of gunfire. "We hear gunshots. We hear…
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George Torgun Obituary
Camden Courier-Post – Februrary 28, 2006 On February 24, 2006; Of Gloucester City, NJ; Age 82. Beloved husband of the late Gertrude Mary (nee Kane). Brother of the late Nicholas. Loving father of Richard ( Darlene ) Gloucester City, Gertrude ( Walter ) Cassel, Pennsauken, NJ, Glenn of Las Vegas, NV. and the late George…
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Wilson Adams Obituary
Camden Courier-Post – October 26, 2005 Age 69, of Camden. Died Friday, October 21, 2005, in Cooper Medical Center, Camden. ADAMS, WILSON EPHRAIM – Born in Camden, NJ, he has been a life long area resident. He was the son of the late Everett and Emma Carter Adams. He was the husband of Elizabeth E.…
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Alfred R. Pierce, Obituary
Camden Courier-Post – September 16, 2005 Former Mayor of the City of Camden from 1959 through 1969, died on September 14, 2005 at the Masonic Home of New Jersey in Burlington. Mr. Pierce was born in Camden on October 21, 1920, the son of the late Russell and Viola Pierce, and brother of the late…
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Alfano Remembered as an Outstanding Coach
Camden Courier-Post – January 9, 2005 By Lavinia DeCastro Anthony Alfano, a legendary boys’ basketball coach who taught at Camden High School from 1942 to 1976, died Thursday. “He was a very personable gentleman,” said Camden school board member Elmer Winston, who taught at Camden High School during Alfano‘s last years there.” He seemed to…
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Camden landmark does one thing – and does it right
Camden Courier-Post – December 3, 2004 Owned by one family for 61 years, Donkey’s Place sticks to cheesesteak by Eileen Stillwell, Courier-Post Staff Donkey’s Place, a bar and cheesesteak landmark on Haddon Avenue, is alive and well after 61 years of operation by the Lucas family. Located on the corner of Haddon Avenue and Liberty…
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Gloucester City Man Killed in Iraq
Camden Courier-post – November 17, 2004 Chris and Marc Ryan sat in the back porch of their parents’ Chestnut Street home sipping beer and trading stories. It was September and Marc – a corporal with the Second Battalion, Fourth Marine Regiment, Second Division – had just returned from Iraq. “You could see he was really…
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Marine from Gloucester City Killed in Iraq
New York Newsday – November 16, 2004 GLOUCESTER CITY, N.J. (AP) – A Marine corporal who volunteered to go to Iraq after two combat tours in Afghanistan was killed Monday in fighting in Ramadi, family members said Tuesday. Cpl. Marc Ryan, 25, was a 1998 graduate of Gloucester City High School, where he was a…
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Taking the Battle to the Enemy
TIME Magazine – October 25, 2004 U.S. and Iraqi forces launch high-risk probes of the insurgency in Fallujah and Ramadi. A TIME exclusive. By PHIL ZABRISKIE/FALLUJAH As lightening flashes intermittently in an otherwise clear sky, a group of more than 200 Marines begins to gear up on a dusty plain outside the Iraqi city of…