HAMMONTON—Local farmers joined a large protest against eliminating the New Jersey Department of Agriculture, which included driving tractors through the streets of Trenton on April 1. Also on April 1, David Rizzotte of Glossy Fruit Farms addressed the New Jersey State Assembly Budget Committee, which is considering cutting the department in reaction to the state’s ongoing fiscal crisis.


 

Local ties, regional success for PR man Kevin Feeley

PHILADELPHIA—Kevin Feeley, 51, is the owner and president of Bellevue Communications Group, a 10-person communications firm based in The Bellevue building on Broad Street in Philadelphia. He served as the Deputy Mayor for Communications for the City of Philadelphia from 1992 to 2000, the entire term of former Philadelphia Mayor and current Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell. During that time, Feeley introduced President Bill Clinton at an event in the courtyard at Philadelphia City Hall.