Fenway’s
picks of
the week
Pepperoni bread
Who is Mr.
contest March 30 Hammonton?
p. 60
Time to tempt
your taste buds
p. 44
p. 25-40
Hello Dolly on
stage in Philly!
p. 49
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
ATTEMPTED MOTEL BURGLARY
Volume 24 • Issue 9
www.hammontongazette.com
Chief Friel: Campione and Carty arrested and charged
by Gabe Donio
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tempt of a burglary at the former econo
Lodge, located on the 300 block of S. White
Horse Pike (route 30), Hammonton Police
Chief Kevin Friel said.
the officer first responding to the inci-
dent was advised by the complainant that
the two individuals who were attempting to
get into a rear window of the building fled
into the woods, heading westbound, Friel
said.
At the ‘Daddy Daughter Dance’
HaMMONtON—Police were called at
8:57 a.m. on February 20 to a reported at-
they were located as they were exiting
the woods in the area of Blueberry Crossing
Shopping Center, Friel said.
“they were found carrying several bags
$100,000 grant
awarded to HRC
by Gina Rullo
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HaMMONtON—On February
19, the Community Foundation of
South Jersey announced that Ham-
monton was one of the five trans-
form South Jersey Heart & Soul
See POLICE, Page 2
grant recipients. Five communities
were awarded grants of $100,000
to support initiatives that bring
people together in order to build
stronger, healthier and more eco-
nomically vibrant communities, ac-
cording to the release.
the following have been named
Bd. deems daycare
app. incomplete
by Joseph F. Berenato
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THG/Kelly Hunt. To purchase photos in The Gazette, call (609) 704-1940.
St. Mary of Mt. Carmel Parish hosted a Daddy Daughter Dance at St. Anthony’s Hall on February 22. Above: Grace
Zingrone, 6, shows her bedazzled rock made at the craft station with her father Dr. Joseph Zingrone. More pictures
inside.
What is the town’s
Obscenity Board?
by Joseph F. Berenato
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HaMMONtON—at the reor-
ganization meeting of town council
on January 6, Mayor Stephen Di-
Donato appointed Councilmen
thomas Gribbin and Sam rodio to
serve with him on the Obscenity
HaMMONtON—the Ham-
monton Planning Board held their
regular meeting on February 19
in town hall.
the sole item on the agenda
was application #1-20zB submit-
See GRANT, Page 8
ted by Shericka Newsome, who
was seeking a use variance for her
property at 474 N. Chew road.
the applicant wished to vacate
the property as a residence and
was requesting a change-of-use
variance to put a daycare center at
that location. Permitted non-resi-
dential uses for r2 are: Public
See PLANNING, Page 3
review Board for a term of one
year.
authorized on October 27, 1980
by Ordinance #021-1980, the Ob-
scenity review Board consists of
“the Mayor, a consenting elected or
appointed official of the town of
Hammonton and a consenting resi-
dent of said town who is registered
12 Inspira nurses
have ‘baby boom’
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HaMMONtON—Last year
was a busy year personally and
professionally for the nurses of
the labor and delivery ward at In-
spira Medical Center in Vineland.
“We had 12 babies in the last
Includes 2 from
Hammonton
See BABIES, Page 12
THG/Joseph F. Berenato. To purchase
photos in The Gazette, call (609) 704-1940.
Right: Danielle Campione and her
son Nicholas stands with Joanne
Branin with her daughter Piper.
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