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POLICE BACK COURT ORDER
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Volume 22 • Issue 34
by Gabe Donio
G AZETTE S TAFF W RITER
HAMMONTON—Five mem-
bers of the Hammonton Police
Department supported the town’s
code enforcement effort at a resi-
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dence on the prime block of Cen-
tennial Drive, Hammonton Police
Chief Robert Jones said.
On August 16 at 1:38 p.m., po-
lice went to a residence on the
prime block of Centennial Drive
assisting code enforcement with
At house on Centennial Drive
the service of a municipal court
order to remove vehicles and de-
bris from the residence.
Five officers were present dur-
ing the service of the court order,
Jones said.
“We were there to ensure there
were no issues and that everything
was safe,” Jones said.
There were no criminal charges
at this time, Jones said.
In other police news, police
made several arrests last week, in-
cluding the following:
• On August 14 at 6:25 a.m. on
the first block of Line Street,
New drug rehab LoBiondo reflects on D.C. career
coming in late 2018
by Michael Rizzotte
G AZETTE S TAFF W RITER
HAMMONTON—This coming
fall, Pyramid Healthcare will be
bringing an addiction recovery
center to the Kessler Medical Arts
Complex at the corner of the
White Horse Pike (Route 30) and
See POLICE, Page 2
Central Avenue. The state of the
art facility, which will focus on
drug, alcohol and mental health
treatment for people 18 years of
age or older, will house a detox
section, along with two com-
pletely separate wings for male
and female residents. Each wing
will contain the resident’s rooms,
LoBiondo on his
tenure in Congress
See PYRAMID, Page 8
by Stephen Pistone
G AZETTE S TAFF W RITER
HAMMONTON—Since 1994, U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo has served
the 2nd Congressional District of New Jersey (R-2nd) as a member of
the U.S. House of Representatives. The Rosenhayn (Deerfield Twp.) na-
tive has spent his entire life in the district that comprises about 40 percent
of the state’s land area, and has devoted his political career to represent-
See LOBIONDO, Page 4
THG/Stephen Pistone. To purchase photos in The Gazette, call (609) 704-1940.
U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo visited the offices of The Gazette on August 15 for an interview. In November 2017, LoBiondo
announced that he will be retiring at the end of his current term. LoBiondo will have spent 24 years representing the
2nd Congressional District of New Jersey (2-NJ) with the U.S. House of Representatives.
Crescenzo heads up
Atl. Investigations
by Stephen Pistone
G AZETTE S TAFF W RITER
HAMMONTON—Although he
retired from the Hammonton Po-
lice Department in 2002, Greg
Crescenzo still works hard each
day to help keep communities safe
as the owner of Atlantic Investiga-
tions LLC, a full-service private
investigation firm, located at 583
13th St.
Since he established the busi-
ness in 2009 alongside retired
New Jersey State Trooper Joseph
Brown Jr., Crescenzo’s business
has expanded exponentially. In
2011, Crescenzo began receiving
Hammonton native
promoting literacy
G AZETTE S TAFF W RITER
THG/Stephen Pistone. To purchase photos in The Gazette, call (609) 704-1940.
Retired Hammonton Police Officer Greg Crescenzo is now the owner of Atlantic Investigations LLC, a full-service private
investigation firm in Hammonton.
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NASHVILLE—A Hammonton
native is attempting to help bring
more books to her community.
In Nashville, Tenn., many
school districts have long been
viewed as “book deserts” with lim-
ited access to high-quality litera-
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ture. In 2016, Dr. Jarred Amato, a
10th-grade teacher at Maplewood
High School in Nashville, began
researching the immediate and
long-term effects of growing up in
such a community, which
prompted him to launch an organ-
ization called Project LIT (Li-
braries in the) Community—a
grassroots reading movement that
See BOOKS, Page 10
by Stephen Pistone
See CRESCENZO, Page 3