Arrawanna Allen, 85, of La Quinta, CA, passed away peacefully on October 15 after a lengthy illness, surrounded by her loving family.
Going Fishing
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Leon Checinski loves to fish, and he wants others to love it too.
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Where The American Dreamers Work
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You’d be hard pressed to say it was a thriving Main Street, but the barbershop, Mexican restaurant, pizza place, tobacco store, mini-mart and even the closed-looking gift store are all open on the short span of Atlantic City’s Ventnor Ave, between Harrisburg and Trenton. In an age of dying malls and online shopping, something is working here.
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Breathe, It’s After School
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Laurie Egrie is walking down the hallway of Sovereign Avenue School carrying a cardboard box filled with odd little balls and popsicle sticks with notelets stuck to them, and she’s wedged an easel-sized writing pad under one arm. The corridor is half dark. School let out 15 minutes ago.
More about: Atlantic City, Education, Voices, Atlantic City, five-finger breathing, Laurie Egrie, Linda Coyle, mindfulness
Alliance Seeks Support for Hispanic ACPD Officer Promotions
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The Hispanic Alliance of Atlantic County is calling on residents to come to the next Atlantic City council meeting on Feb. 20 to support Hispanic officers as the police department prepares for a round of promotions.
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Talking To Trees
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“We’re gonna talk to them!” says Robert Preston, Atlantic City’s interim planning director, when I ask him how the city is going to make sure 45 young trees survive planting in Uptown Park. One of the side effects of being a city that is constantly in the cross hairs of some or other developer is that the city is a sort of mausoleum to dying and dead landscaping. The buildings go up, the trees go in, the ribbon is cut, and then everyone forgets about watering the plants. There’s probably a metaphor there somewhere.
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Golf Tourney Remembers EHT’s Tommy Mac
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Friends of Tommy McLaughlin, an Egg Harbor Township native, who died in June after a long battle with addiction, held a golf tournament Sunday at McCullough’s Emerald Golf Links.
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Celeste Fernandez Is Trying To Talk About The Economy
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Celeste Fernandez, candidate for freeholder at-large in Atlantic County, said she made her decision to run for office on November 9, 2016, which makes it easy to count her among the millions of women moved to action by the ascension of a reality TV star who boasted of sexual assault to the office of President of the United States.
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Five Things We Love About Lower Chelsea!
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Route 40 has its headquarters here, and though we told ourselves we weren’t going to do this kind of thing (Shopping Guides being the sisters to GENTRIFICATION) who doesn’t love a good listicle?
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A Weekday Night At Mr Steak
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The girl in the white hijab wants to be a software engineer.
She holds a microphone and stands before a group at Mr Steak on Atlantic and Indiana Avenues. She raises her voice to be heard above the air conditioning and the chattering kids and parents packed around every table in the restaurant.
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Atlantic City’s Igloo-Dwelling Cats
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Tracey is a cat lady. It’s her job, actually.
As an employee of Alley Cat Allies, she delivers food come lashing rain or sweltering heat to the dozens of cats that live under Atlantic City’s Boardwalk.