South Jersey Observer
On May 5, Gloucester City School District Business Administrator/Board Secretary, Peg McDonnell, presented the district’s 2016-17 budget in the amount of $47,627,539 and the Gloucester City Board of Education (BOE) voted to approve and adopt it. 2016-17 Budget As for any cuts, McDonnell said: “The budget projects no staffing cuts other than some retirement vacancies […]
GLOUCESTER CITY, N.J. – Four 9th graders from Gloucester City Junior-Senior High School have been awarded full scholarships to Rowan University, Montclair State University, The College of New Jersey, or Saint Peter’s University by the Give Something Back Foundation (GSBF). The announcement was made to the students on April 15 by GSBF, a nonprofit organization that […]
Members of the public addressed the Mt. Ephraim Board of Education (BOE) Monday night to ask about rumors that “everything” is being cut from the budget and that district teachers have received reduction in force notices, or RIF. Several members of the public expressed their concern about program cuts and voiced their concern in support […]
The Bellmawr Planning Board voted to approve the Site Plan for 100 Essex Avenue, LLC. The building will be used as office space.
(Mt. Ephraim, NJ) — Teaching is “no picnic” as they say, unless you are a teacher in Mt. Ephraim! The Mt. Ephraim Education Association (MEEA) recently collected close to $200 in donations for the community-based Mt. Ephraim Education Foundation. District teachers, counselors and school nurses participated in the project. Rallying at the Mt. Ephraim […]
Councilman Paul Sandock wants to put a question on November’s ballot that would limit term limits for Mayor and Council. At Thursday’s monthly council meeting, Sandrock said: “I am going to solicit this body to place on the November ballot a question to approve or disapprove setting term limits for mayor and council.” SJO emailed the […]
At its April 27 meeting, the Bellmawr School District presented its 2016-17 in the amount of $16,981,271. As for the budget impact on taxpayers, Business Administrator/Board Secretary, Amy Capriotti said that a house assessed at $168,832, will see a tax increase of $55.71. According to the advertised budget, there are an estimated 1,097 regular full-time pupils […]
Prior to the council meeting tonight, there was a meeting in the Borough Hall courtroom about the Bellmawr Waterfront Development. When Mayor Frank Filipek opened the regular meeting, he said: “It is 95-98% complete. The only thing we are waiting for is the traffic study from the DOT and then it can finally be redeveloped.” […]
The Borough of Bellmawr has uploaded the minutes from the March 15 Zoning Board of Adjustment meeting and for the March 22 Bellmawr Business Alliance meeting. From the Business Alliance meeting, excerpts from the minutes indicate the following topics were discussed: The digital sign at the corner of Black Horse Pike and Browning Road is […]
Following an Executive Session at its April 12 meeting, the Gloucester City Board of Education (BOE) voted to affirm the Harassment, Intimidation and Bullying (HIBs) as reported. The BOE also voted to approve the sidebar agreement with the GCEA (Gloucester City Education Association) regarding sick leave subject to approval of the GCEA under the […]