Rowan SAT flap blamed on error
Rowan University’s top administrator blamed “human error” Friday after the school was found to have released a misleading comparison between its students and those at Rutgers-Camden.The fact sheet comparison reflected the negative impact of lower SAT scores for disadvantaged students at Rutgers-Camden, but not at Rowan. That gave a 92-point boost to Rowan. http://on.app.com/ymm8Nn
Little League program in need of support
The Camden County Parks Freeholder Board is proud to support the North Camden Little League and our Parks Department has been hard at work refurbishing the baseball field at Pyne Poynt Park. You can join this effort by sponsoring a child’s registration fee of $20. Checks can be made payable to: Concerned Citizens of North Camden, 113 State Street, Camden, NJ 08102. Thank you for helping us to bring baseball back to the children of North Camden.
Student's painted cow a potential winner
Gustavo Ramirez has aspirations of someday opening his own tattoo parlor. The soft-spoken sophomore at Overbrook High School never expected his first client to be a life-size fiberglass cow. Ramirez is one of nine finalists - and the only one from New Jersey - selected by a panel of judges from 9,200 entrants
Keeping a flat tax rate hurt Medford
Despite the recent economic turmoil and the township's apparently insatiable demand for amenities, its tax rate stayed flat from 2006 to 2010 and went up only slightly last year. And that is precisely why the community now faces a financial emergency, say leaders of the five-member, all-Republican Town Council and a chorus of budget experts. Tax increases when times got rough coupled with spending restraint could have saved Medford from the hard choices it now faces. "That's a problem all over the country - the desire to make everyone happy so that you can get their vote," Mayor Pace said. The debt was ignored. http://bit.ly/ygrqCe
Cell tower hearing postponed
Pegasus Tower Company has requested a postponement of the zoning hearing originally scheduled for March 1st in Cherry Hill. The meeting is now scheduled for Thursday, April 19th. More information and an online petition is available at the website.
Cherry Hill neighbors bemoan plan for jumbo Wawa
Neighbors of a proposed mega-Wawa in Cherry Hill say the store will be far from super - and far too close to their homes. A public hearing on the final plan is set to continue before the township Planning Board on March 5. The project does not require a zoning variance.