The Hammontonian Magazine arrives with this week’s edition of The Gazette.

This year certainly started off as a winter wonderland, didn’t it? We had two snow days in one week, and my wife Robyn was very excited.

Most communities either don’t have any elected officials holding higher office, or just one. Hammonton has four.

Long ago, I tortured my dear husband by binge watching the entire “Sex and the City” series in a matter of like two weeks.

The cartoon on page six that opens the year for the Opinion pages sends a strong message about living locally.

I refuse to blame the alarming disappearance of wardrobe items on my mental faculties.

During the years, I’ve experienced the loss of many things in my life: Family, friends, freedom, health and more.

I have a newfound appreciation for parents.  Let me explain.

There is good news, and a lot of it can be found on the pages of The Gazette.

This week, let’s look at the events, places and moments in 2021 that are making the Christmastime memories for decades from now.

Our tree has been up since the day after Thanksgiving. My lights are up outside. Our Christmas cards are in the mail.

The downtown Christmas Tree Lighting was held December 4, and the Hammonton Volunteer Fire Department’s Christmas Parade will be on Dec. 11.

My rear window has been smashed in! What I saw was a fragment of broken glass dangling in a corner.

I read somewhere that the number one trait of successful CEOs isn’t automatically what you might think it is.

It is Christmas cookie season. Let’s preheat the ovens and let the butter soften.

Hammonton Lake has been here longer than any of us, and while it is a human-made lake, it is one of the most significant natural resources.

Part one of our holiday TV schedule is inside this week’s edition. I love Christmas movies. Always have.

Thanksgiving doesn’t receive the weeks of runup that the two major holidays that bookend it—Halloween and Christmas—do each year.

In 1942, my grandfather was drafted, and became a part of the 8th Air Force of the Army Air Corps during World War II.

“I think about all the kids that are in town that now don’t have a skating rink to go to, and it breaks my heart,” Bagliani told Berenato.

Digital textbooks may be the thing that finally pushes me over the edge, and sends me to The Teacher Funny Farm.

As the holidays approach, so too do some of The Gazette’s biggest editions of the year.

For years now, world governments have dithered about how, and how much, to address the issues posed by a warming planet Earth.

I was thinking of one of my favorite movies about politics last week, while interviewing local politicians about the new turf field deal.

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?

This past Saturday would have been my mother’s 75th birthday.

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

October 16, 2021 would have marked your 100th birthday.

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

There has been a lot happening lately and some things have been on my mind.

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

I’m working outside the home again. After I’d passed the two-week timeframe following my COVID-19 vaccination, I finally ventured out.

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

I received two awards for a series of articles I wrote that began being published nearly a year ago.

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

Like any of you who were old enough to be cognizant of the events of September 11, 2001, I can remember with crystal clarity where I was.

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

In the movie The Graduate, the most notable line was delivered by Dustin Hoffman’s sort-of girlfriend’s father, as advice for his future car

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

There is so much noise surrounding all of these situations and finding reliable information is becoming more difficult each week.

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

After moving from a house that was more than twice the size of the one I’m in now, I bit the bullet and started watching Marie Kondo.

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

On July 16, in the middle of the longest-running Italian festival in the country, my daughter got married. We held the wedding in our yard.

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.

I cannot abide the behavior of now former Governor Andrew Cuomo as outlined in the report released on August 3.

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

“Nevertheless I long—I pine, all my days—to travel home and see the dawn of my return.” – The Odyssey

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

After reading the front page article about upcoming downtown events, one may have the feeling that Hammonton is a happening place.