Here we go again, another proponent of recreating passenger rail service on the old tracks south of Camden has just been heard from. This time it is yet another state agency no one ever heard of named the \”Office of Smart Growth.\” According to a recent article in the Gloucester County Times \” . . their job is to provide smart growth in a state that has a minimum amount of open space.\” Where was this group when we needed them, before the excessive and rampant growth took place?

Apparently they have just become aware of the most recent of the studies by the Delaware River Port Authority (DRPA), and there have been many, that resulted in recommendations for passenger rail routes down the rights-of-way of routes 42 and 55 or on the old existing rails from Woodbury to Glassboro and possibly beyond.

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The O\’Brien Press-published book, which has been selling well in airports in the last six weeks, is available in all bookstores in Ireland from this week. The woman referred to in the title is Dublin-born Olive Doyle, who lives in Tullamore, Co. Offaly, with her husband Patsy. The mother of nine children was first exposed in 2002 as one of Ireland\’s worst parents on the front page of the Sunday World, a best-selling Dublin newspaper.

That publication reunited Patrick Doyle, who lives in Swansea, Wales, and Gloucester City, N.J., resident Ken Doyle after 20 years\’ separation. The brothers were encouraged to write their accounts by their doctors as a form of therapy.

PHOTO: Gloucester City resident and author Ken Doyle

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CAMDEN – The former director of the Cherry Hill Department of Code Enforcement and
Inspections pleaded guilty and admitted today that he accepted approximately $4,500 in
corrupt payments from representatives of a private inspection services company in
exchange for his assistance in obtaining municipal contracts, Acting U.S. Attorney Ralph
J. Marra announced. 

Anthony Saccomanno, 66, of Cherry Hill, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge
Renée Marie Bumb to a one-count Information charging him with mail fraud for devising
a scheme to defraud the Township of Cherry Hill and its citizens of the right to his honest
services. Judge Bumb continued the defendant’s release on a $50,000 bond pending
sentencing, which is scheduled for Oct. 5.