The Retrospect

01/18/2025

Votes are in! This story is now free to view - Winning a Theme for Local Girls Hoops

The common theme on the local high school girls basketball scene is winning as the majority of the squads are battling for their respective division crowns. Having a strong regular season record will pay off with a higher seed in next month’s NJSIAA tournament.

01/17/2025

Facing Homelessness, Barrington Mews Residents Offered Little

On Tuesday night Barrington Mews residents and loved ones continued to demonstrate they are not backing down regarding the complex’s potential sale that could leave some tenants out in the cold without a place to call home.

01/16/2025

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01/15/2025

Found in Retrospect parking lot on 1/15. If you can tell us the name on the card, you can claim it.

01/14/2025

45-Day Hospital Stay Cost $743.25

If you have had enough of memories about the Audubon Hospital (and heard enough from our friend, Al Harris), then you had better turn the page, because here we go again. As it turns out, when Al was 11 years old, he spent six weeks at the Audubon Hospital, which we now know was located on the White....

01/14/2025

Patrick Driscoll’s Catch of a Lifetime

Patrick Driscoll always had good hands, which is why as a senior at Audubon during the 2019 season, he led the state with 78 receptions. Driscoll made many great catches during his high school career, but the best came recently at Lincoln Financial Field which gave the former Green Wave all-star nat...

01/13/2025

Votes are in! This story is now free to view - Judge Keeps Affordable Housing Mandate in Place

Sooner than expected, a Superior Court judge swatted aside an attempt by 30 municipalities to delay the implementation of the state’s landmark new affordable housing law, leaving in place an end-of-January requirement that all towns either accept or challenge new numbers of low-income units that h...

01/13/2025

Ritter Rejoins Haddonfield BOE

The Haddonfield Board of Education reorganization meeting on Jan. 2 saw three board members sworn in. Matt Ritter, along with incumbent members Stephanie Benecchi and Megan Hollingworth accepted positions on the board for three-year terms. Ritter has previously been a member of the board. “I’d l...

01/13/2025

Oaklyn Reorganizes, Focuses on New Community Center

New Year’s revelry was over and it was time to get down to business. A day after the Borough of Oaklyn rang in the new year, the town’s governing body held its annual reorganization meeting, emerging ready to tackle 2025’s challenges.

01/10/2025

Collingswood Inks Sun/Ocean First Bank Deal

Details are scarce but the Borough of Collingswood officially opened its new year Monday by inking a deal with a new developer for the old Sun Bank/Ocean First Bank property at the corner of Haddon and Woodlawn Aves.

01/08/2025

Santa Brings the Bacon

HO-HO-HO!: Haddon Heights High School’s National Honor Society leaned on Jolly Old St. Nick for a visit at their annual Breakfast with Santa on Dec. 7. The event raised $335.25 for the honor society.

01/07/2025

Barber Paul Arno Retires After 63 Years

Not many of us can say that we have spent an entire career - sixplus decades - doing something that we enjoy every day. But Paul Arno, of Haddon Heights, can genuinely make that statement.

01/07/2025

Township Girls Brighten Coach Witte’s Swan Song

Before this recent fall high school sports season, Chip Witte knew that this would be his third and last year as the head coach of Haddon Township’s girls’ soccer team. So did everybody else.

01/06/2025

Snow day, work day. Calvin the cat is happy to have publisher Brett Ainsworth home. Readers may remember Calvin who modeled the utility of The Retrospect box-bags in the paper.

01/06/2025

BARRINGTON BOARD OF EDUCATION
MEETING NOTICE – CHANGE IN DATE

Notice is hereby given that the Barrington School District Board of Education reorganization and regular meeting scheduled for Monday, January 6, 2025 has been moved to Wednesday, January 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM at the Avon School.
The meeting is being convened for the purpose of conducting the business of the Board of Education. The agenda to the extent known is as follows:
- Reorganization for 2025 and Regular Action meeting for the month of January
- Any other items presented to the Board of Education
Formal action will be taken by the Board of Education.
1/5/2025, 5:00 PM
Samuel L. Dutkin
School Business Administrator
Barrington Board of Education

01/06/2025

Decade of Service

HONORING ALLY: The Haddon Township Board of Education presented a resolution to honor board member Allison Rodman after her near decade of service on the board. After deciding not to run for re-election this year, Rodman will be replaced by incoming board member Christopher Cook.

01/06/2025

Affordable Housing Deadline Looms Locally

With the simple flip of a calendar page Wednesday, a new deadline in New Jersey’s quest to build affordable housing came into sharper focus. Local officials statewide have until January 31, 2025 to adopt a resolution accepting the state’s new calculations for the number of affordable housing uni...