Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe today announced the agency will award 1,780 permits for the 2009-10 bobcat hunting/furtaking seasons at a public drawing in its Harrisburg headquarters on Friday, Sept. 11. As part of the public drawing for the allocated permits, those applicants with six preference points (five previous points and one for this year’s application) will automatically receive a bobcat permit.

HILDEBRANDT

PAUL J.

On June 19, 2009. Age 79. Of Gloucester City. Formerly of Camden and Cherry Hill. Loving husband of Marian (nee Gail). Devoted father of John (Kathleen) Hildebrandt, Gail (Charles) Chambers, Linda (Reid) Phillips, Jackie Davis, Sandy (Nick) Iacovone, Patti (Mike) Long, the late Paula (James) Clark and the late Paul Hildebrandt. Beloved grandfather of 20 and great-grandfather of 8.

Paul proudly served our country in the U.S. Army. He was a member of the VFW and American Legion. At the request of Paul, cremation and inurnment are private. Family requests donations in Paul’s memory to the American Diabetes Association: P.O. Box 11454 Alexandria, VA 22312. Please write in memo: Paul J. Hildebrandt. Expressions of sympathy can be e-mailed to www.mccannhealey.com under online obituaries of Paul J. Hildebrandt.

The NJDEP Division of Fish and Wildlife will be hosting its 6th Annual National Teen Angler Youth Day on July 25 at the Pequest Trout Hatchery and Natural Resource Education Center. The event is scheduled from 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM and will be held rain or shine.

SMITH,Amy Bell (nee Starlipper), on June 18, 2009, of Pennsauken, formerly of Gloucester City, age 79. Loving wife of the late Walter. Beloved mother of Joan Eller-Hinski and her husband Gene of Lindenwold, Walter and his wife, Bernadette of Gloucester City, Frank of Gloucester City, James and his wife, Bonnie of Cherry Hill. Proud grandmother of Nicole Smith, Melanie and her husband Marc Leone, Walter Smith, Amy and her husband, Joe Apicelli, Eric Eller, Angel Henry, Mary Henry, Emily Henry, and Rebecca Smith. Great grandmother of Eddie Coleman, Jacob and Colin Blaylock, Sophia and Gracia Leone, Hannah Apicelli. Survived by her loving sister, Betty Burness and her husband Harold and many nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Smith was a proud member of the \”Steel Magnolias.\” Devoted member of the Pennsauken United Methodist Church. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the viewing on Monday evening from 6-8PM followed by a service at 8PM at the DANKS-HINSKI FUNERAL HOME, 125 North White Horse Pike at South Ave., Linden wold. Interment private. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Pennsauken United Methodist Church 3541 Pennsylvania Ave., Pennsauken, NJ 08109. Condolences at dankshinskifuneralhome.com

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

Related: Emerald Isle is Closing

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. 

By Jack Sheppard

(written in 2005)

Almost ten years ago in the fall of 1996 New Jersey Transit performed a \”Major Investment Study\” (MIS) in our region. Its stated purpose was to determine the feasibility and desirability of constructing light-rail mass-transit facilities from Trenton to Glassboro through Camden. The intent was to use the old existing rail bed built in the 1800’s. The estimated price tag for the system was $1.4 billion.

However even prior to the MIS study the idea of reintroducing rail passenger service to the tri-county area was not new, having been proposed many times by the Delaware River Port Authority starting as far back as 1936.

The 1975 DRPA study entitled \”Mass Transportation Development Program of the Delaware River Port Authority\” was extremely comprehensive consisting of six documents covering the topics Transportation and Regional Planning, Engineering Investigations, Design Guidelines, Transportation System Design and Guidelines, Economic Evaluation of Transportation Improvements, and Recommended Transportation Development and Financial Plan for Implementation.