Like many of you, I’ve been laughing along with those outstanding NJM commercials while watching the news or while online.

Out on 11th Street, work is being done. It is good work.

The mystical, mythical month of July in the town of Hammonton is unlike any other time or place.

Back then, I thought starting my own newspaper would make a wonderful business story, or at least a wonderful news story.

The other day it came to my attention that Art Galletta, the president of Atlantic Blueberry Co., was marking his 50th year at the company.

The era of spending local taxpayer money just to spend money, on projects that could be better funded by private dollars are at an end.

I’ve checked the mail at home and the office, email, text messages and social media—and still no invitation to be the graduation speaker.

Built in 1912, Fenway Park is the oldest in major league baseball, two years older than the second-oldest ballpark in the majors.

Gina and I always look forward to meeting with the students and their teachers at the elementary school.

I was recently reminded again of the value of longstanding friendship.

On May 15 members of the local Tri-Veterans, placed flags on the graves of about 2,000 veterans in advance of Memorial Day.

We’re especially proud of this week’s special supplement “Hammonton Headlines” which begins on page 25.

A moment that seemed to bring together so many aspects of the current New Jersey experience occurred in town.

Hammonton used to have its own piece of New Deal artwork, inside the Hammonton Post Office.

I took some time last week to look up the definition of the word “gadfly.”

This past Sunday, I reread the first column I ever wrote for the paper, which had the title, “A guide to The Hammonton Gazette.”

Our Real Estate section along with ads on earlier pages, provides our readers with a service each week.

The Red, White & Blueberry Festival is returning this year.

I always loved that movie Hoosiers, the one with Gene Hackman as the coach. It’s set in the 1950s and was made in the 1980s.

“Well, what have we learned?” It’s a question I have asked often in and out of our newsroom throughout the last quarter-century or so.