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Wednesday, February 3, 2016
STORAGE SITE BURGLARIZED
Volume 20 • Issue 5
www.hammontongazette.com
by Gabe Donio
Gazette Staff Writer
HaMMONtON—Police were notified
at 6:50 p.m. on January 27 that approximately 20 storage units had been broken
into at the On Site Storage on 12th Street,
Hammonton Police Captain Nick Salvatore
20 units broken into at 12th Street facility
said.
Salvatore said Officer Sean Grasso with
Detective Peter Hagerty investigated the
burglary and an arrest was made on January
30.
James K. Davis, 55, of Pottstown, Pa.,
was arrested and charged with theft of movable property, burglary and conspiracy to
commit burglary, Salvatore said.
“they had a similar burglary in Pennsylvania, so we compared crimes and we
charged him. We also had surveillance
video that helped in the investigation,” Salvatore said.
Davis was placed in the atlantic City Jail
in lieu of payment of $50,000 cash bail set
by Hammonton Municipal Court Judge
frank raso, Salvatore said.
in other police news, a woman was the
Ed Wuillermin Working to improve the town
& Sons Inc. will
receive ag. honor
by Gabe Donio
Gazette Staff Writer
See POLICE, Page 14
Named “Vegetable
Grower of the Year”
Grower of the Year” award from
the Vegetable Growers association
of New Jersey. the award will be
Creative session
energy-filled
H a M M O N tO N — e d w a r d
Wuillermin & Sons inc., a 275-acre
vegetable farm in Hammonton, has
been awarded the “Vegetable
by Kevin Troilo
Gazette Staff Writer
HaMMONtON — On January
26, the first Creative Hammonton
meeting was held at St. Joseph
High School. it was a unique and
innovative event, according to people who attended. the two-day
See WUILLERMIN, Page 10
conference (only one day has been
completed due to snow cancelling
the meeting on January 25) was far
from a typical seminar session. according to the Creative New Jersey
website, the program is a statewide
initiative championing creativity,
innovation and sustainability
through community engagement
Lt. Gov. comes to Frog Rock A closer look at
See CREATIVE, Page 12
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Local attorney Brian Howell leads a discussion during Creative Hammonton on January 26.
the PARCC test
by Kevin Troilo
Gazette Staff Writer
HaMMONtON—as of 2015,
New Jersey schools adopted the
Partnership for assessment of
readiness for College and Careers
(ParCC) in order to replace the
High School Proficiency assess-
ment (HSPa). ParCC also replaced the previously used assessments at the elementary and
middle school levels.
according to the organization’s
website, “it not only evaluates a
student’s progress but also provides better information for teachers and parents to identify where
Woolson named
zon. bd. solicitor
by Kevin Troilo
Gazette Staff Writer
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Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno came to a Presidential Debate Watch Party sponsored by the New Jersey Republican
State Committee held at Frog Rock Golf & Country Club. Guadagno is pictured with Frog Rock owner Rock Colasurdo.
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HaMMONtON — the Hammonton zoning Board of adjustment met on January 28 for their
annual reorganization meeting.
Michael Messina was named
chairman by the board members.
See PARCC, Page 3
the board also named Bill
Brinkerhoff vice chairman,
Charles Woolson solicitor, Chris
rehmann board engineer, Ben Ott
non-recording secretary and Kevin
Dixon as board planner/traffic engineer.
Councilman thomas Gribbin
began the meeting acting as chair-
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