Courier-Post staff • September 4, 2010

Ten Camden County municipalities will share about $511,000 in Federal Emergency Management Agency reimbursements for costs they incurred as a result of the December 2009 snowstorm.

In August, 13 other communities received a total of $184,359 for snow removal costs, according to the Camden County Office of Emergency Management.

"The December 20th snowstorm caused the county and numerous municipalities to use a great deal of resources to keep roadways clear," said Freeholder Ian Leonard, liaison to the Department of Public Works. "It is our hope that these FEMA funds can go to help municipalities already struggling with budget matters no matter what the amount."

Checks will be issued to the following municipalities: Oaklyn $9,618, Magnolia $5,177, Gloucester Township $366,669, Chesilhurst $15,575, Stratford $7,434, Gloucester City $6,640, Haddonfield $23,679, Lindenwold $48,324, Berlin Township $25,627, and Hi-Nella $2,094.

By EILEEN STILWELL • Courier-Post Staff • September 4, 2010

South Jersey labor leaders are having a tough time celebrating Labor Day this year when nearly 10 percent of the state's work force is unemployed.

"It's a very somber Labor Day, in many ways like the Great Depression," said Sen. Donald Norcross, D-Camden, who also is president of AFL-CIO Central Labor Council for South Jersey.

"Companies are holding onto every dollar because of the uncertainty of the economy. One of my biggest concerns is what happens when unemployment checks stop coming."

Labor Day was created as a national holiday in 1894 by President Grover Cleveland to appease workers after he dispatched federal troops to bust a railroad union.

Four years later Samuel Gompers, an immigrant cigar maker who is described in every textbook as the father of the American labor movement, called it a day for workers to "lay down their tools" and reflect on the power of their solidarity.

By Timothy J. Carroll - PolitickerNJ - September 3rd, 2010

"In a dream, I saw a city invincible." That's Camden's motto, lifted from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and engraved at City Hall.

Unfortunately, Camden isn't there yet, still a governmental mare's nest: probable layoffs, potential library closures, and an ongoing
budget hell.

But this isn't the same budget hell Camden's seen before. It's the budget hell that's raging statewide; the budget hell that's a byproduct of economic depression. This isn't the same Camden where three mayors were indicted in two decades. This isn't the runaway government historic to the waterfront city, not since Mayor Dana L. Redd gave up her state Senate seat to come home.

(VOORHEES)— Assemblyman Louis Greenwald and Assemblywoman Pamela Lampitt (both D-6th) today announced their legislative office has moved to a new location in Voorhees Township.

The new office is located at 1101 Laurel Oak Road, Suite 150, Voorhees, NJ 08043. Sixth District constituents are invited to stop by the new location, where the experienced staff will be available to listen to their concerns and to assist residents with questions or concerns on a variety of State issues including, but not limited to, unemployment, taxation, utility assistance, financial aid and veterans’ affairs.

The contact information for the legislative office of Assemblyman Greenwald and Assemblywoman Lampitt will remain the same. Residents can contact the office via phone at (856) 435-1247, via email at AsmGreenwald@njleg.org or AswLampitt@njleg.org, or via Facebook at www.facebook.com/lougreenwald or www.facebook.com/pamlampitt.