What were they thinking when they blocked the view of Hammonton High School with a huge solar array on the front lawn of the school?

Home rule, that last sacred cow of municipal and school government in New Jersey, has seemingly been under attack for decades.

The question is: How much power is this town going to give my extended family?

In the 24 years since I started The Gazette, I have published a column every week. That’s a lot of columns.

Bob Schenk and John Runfolo along with the rest of the Town Clock Committee did a wonderful job revitalizing the town clock.

Admit it. You didn’t think they’d do as well as they did this past Sunday.

In the April 30 edition of The Gazette, I published a column titled “The man behind the missing mural at the post office.”

The closure of Bagram Air Base has been discussed and editorialized in major media outlets during the past week.

I want to thank everyone who has donated Hammonton-oriented memorabilia (or “Hammontoncana”) to The Gazette.

It’s been roughly a generation since the attacks. People who are adults now don’t even remember them or weren’t even born when they happened

Let’s all hand it to Major League Baseball. Playing the first Major League Baseball game ever played in Iowa, in the middle of a cornfield.

Welcome to August. Or, as I like to call it, the probable end to the “eye” of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) “hurricane.”

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.

We all know clocks don’t talk, so use your imagination and have some fun with this interview with the newly-restored Hammonton Town Clock.

This past weekend saw business doing well at the restaurants, stores, offices and other businesses throughout Hammonton.

The town plans to reinvest and revitalize Hammonton Lake Park through a variety of improvement projects, including new signage.

I was reading a recent article about how Major League Baseball dropped 40 affiliates, including the elimination of the New York-Penn League.

Sometimes, there are things—work things—that keep a publisher like me up at night.

By Friday of last week, careful observers could tell a winter storm had been forecast by driving by the parking lots of local markets.

On December 23, 2020, The Gazette ran the photo under the following headline: “Can you help solve a Christmas mystery—72 years later?”

The Christmas card from Evelyn Cassidy came to our house this December, as it always did.

In addition to being the premier weekly newspaper in southern New Jersey, The Gazette has always been the forefront of online news delivey.

For most of us, the fantasy football obsession goes back three decades-plus, to 1989.

One of my personal privileges as a writer has been the annual chronicling of the significant local news events of each year in The Gazette.

In the early 1980s, when I was a kid at Christmastime, it was a treat for us to get in our van and ride out to Folsom.

It will be businesses like the newspaper, and the advertisers on its pages, that bring jobs and the economy back.