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By Jessica [email protected]
PITMAN — Council has adopt-ed an ordinance designating the borough as an “area in need of rehabilitation” — a label that allows the town to consider dif-ferent abatement programs for its commercial and residential areas.
“We’ve been working on it a long time and this gives us the power of redevelopment through-out the whole town,” said Council President Russ Johnson. “Now we can allow residents to take up to five-year, $25,000 abatements for work on their own properties. This blankets the town and also allows us do redevelopment on any property within. The only powers we lose by doing this, and don’t really need, are eminent domain and long-term abate-ments.”
Johnson said the borough looked at Collingswood as a model, working with the town’s mayor and borough special coun-sel for redevelopment Jim Maley.
“They went through the reha-bilitation zone process and it worked well for them,” said John-son. “For us, it’s just beginning. Though sites like the hotel and the armory are still considered redevelopment zones, this could help us with anything else and we think it will be a good thing for Pitman.”
Council: Town is a rehab territory
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■ The United States expects heavy fighting around the key Afghan city of Kandahar through this fall, one Pentagon official said Wednesday, dimming hopes for big gains in the war ahead of U.S. elections and a White House review of its war strategy.
■ The remains of four of the six Americans killed during a medi-cal mission in north-ern Afghanistan have begun the journey back to the United States, the U.S. Embassy said Wednesday.
■ Two suicide bomb-ers died Wednesday inside a mosque when their explosive vests detonated acciden-tally, provincial police Chief Mohammad Faqir Askar said.
The day in Afghanistan
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Gloucester CountyTimes
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THURSDAYAugust 12,
2010
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Staff photo by Lucas K. Murray
Jim Alvarez, regional account executive for Q-Star Tech-nology shows off a motion activated camera to Gloucester Township Chief Harry Earle (left) and Mayor David Mayer.
PITMAN
WALLACE
Above, Kaitlyn Grehlinger, 14, runs by Miranda Myers, 14, during a game called ‘People you Meet,’ where the last one standing has to ask a question, during Washing-ton Township High School’s transition pro-gram for new freshman. At left, senior student counselor Dani-elle DaGrosa, 17, talks with the new students.
Staff photos by Tim Hawk
■ Program offers newest crop of students chance to get to know each other, teachers and the school itselfBy Jessica [email protected]
WASHINGTON TWP. — Many anxieties can fill the minds of incoming fresh-men at Washington Town-ship High School — from wondering where they will fit in with the blended population of three middle schools to the challenges of making it to a classroom across the school in time for the bell — but a four-day camp offered by the school this week aims to make the transition a little easier.
“We have about 25 upperclassmen assisting our staff with the fresh-men transition program and 217 incoming fresh-men involved this year,” said WTHS guidance coun-selor Tanya Brown-John-son on Wednesday. “This program’s been in existence for about nine years and we add more aspects to it each year even though the main goal and purpose hasn’t changed.”
Brown-Johnson said the idea of the camp is to get the new students accli-mated to the high school setting while easing their fears and anxieties.
“We have a number of activities for them to get to know one another and to get comfortable in a group
Freshmen-to-be get acquainted with WTHS
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By John Barna
Gloucester County Free-holder Warren S. Wallace has reached an out-of-court settle-ment with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, two years after he
sued the institution alleging he was the victim of racial dis-crimination while employed as a $166,000-per-year dean.
He indicated he received a financial settlement from the university where he had worked for 17 years before being fired in June 2006. Wal-
lace did not disclose the dollar figure.
Wallace, of Washington Township, was fired as dean for academic and student affairs at the University’s Stratford campus shortly before the release of a federal monitor’s report alleging he had abused
his position to benefit himself, family and friends.
Wallace — who is black — alleged in a June 2008 lawsuit that he was retaliated against for criticizing university offi-cials for partaking in “racist hiring practices and/or admis-sion practices.”
The law division case has been marked closed, two employees of Superior Court in Camden said on Wednes-day.
The university and Wallace settled the matter before a mediator prior to it going to
Wallace, UMDNJ settle on firing suit
(See WALLACE, Page A-7)
Move allows greater ease in redevelopment
Trade gap likely points to slower economic growthBy Martin CrutsingerAP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON — The United States is selling fewer products around the world and spending more on cheap imported goods, an imbalance that hurts the job market at home and means the economy is even weaker than pre-viously thought.
The trade deficit of nearly $50 billion for June is the biggest in almost two years, and economists fear that economic growth for the second quarter, which came in at a sluggish rate of 2.4 percent in early estimates, may turn out to be only half that.
“The problem is that to the (See ECONOMY, Page A-5)
By Lucas K. Murray
GLOUCESTER TWP. — When two teen-age boys were arrested earlier this week — accused of spraypainting graffiti under-neath the North-South Freeway overpass on Woodland Avenue — it wasn’t an officer of the law that caught them in the act.
Instead, it was the single eye of a camera that captured their images in the area that led police to the arrests.
In less than a week’s time, the piece of modern technology is already providing the results authorities are looking for.
Chief Harry Earle said the $6,500 cam-era funded by a New Jersey Clean Com-munities Grant is a serious effort by police to prevent a small issue from becoming a big one.
“We want to take the investigative effort and make an arrest whenever possible,” Earle said. “Through the use of the camera, we are able to do that.”
The camera is simple enough — hanging from a bracket over the nearby bike path, motion sensors activate the unit to snap pictures of those who pass by. The area underneath the overpass has been a target of young vandals recently.
In this particular case, police did not get shots of the two teenage boys ages 14 and
Anti-graffiti camera already paying off
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