Vineland Football
Mike McGarry from the Press of AC has a great story about Dan Russo, the head football coach at Vineland, where they have maybe the most beautiful high school football stadium in South Jersey (#controversial) and the strangest mascot (“Poultry Clan”).
According to this, Vineland has never won a playoff game. Ever. And they’ve been playing football since the Grover Cleveland administration.
They play undefeated Williamstown tonight.
15,000
Fifteen thousand military veterans in New Jersey are in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which would be cut under the House version of the Farm Bill, the valuable Spotlight reports.
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