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By Andy Polhamusnj.com/south
After several years of success, Phillies fans are getting back in touch with their old friend, failure.
With every collective groan at the end of a defeat, fans of the not-so fightin’ Phils find their frus-tration festering.
“Sad to say, but it’s over ... it sure was a lot of fun while it
lasted,” said Bob Gibbons, a season ticket holder from West Deptford.
“I think this team will go down as underachievers.”
Suffice it to say, fans like Gib-bons are disappointed. But not dis-
(See PHILLIES, Page A-5N)
By Rebecca Forandnj.com/south
While most people in South Jersey have spent the past 10 days avoiding the
oppressive heat, one part of the population – the part that gives
the state its nick-name – has been busy making sure the high tempera-tures don’t affect their crops.
Summer in the Garden State is known for blue-berries, corn, tomatoes, peaches and an abundance
of other fresh produce. But the weather is always a concern.
“I’ve been here 29 years, and I’ve never seen two seasons the same yet,” said Al Murray, the state’s assistant secretary of agriculture.
The fourth heat wave of this season is expected to finish today with temperatures in the lower 90s. With the heat, though, often comes dry air.
Meaning, local crops aren’t getting enough water.
For fruit farmers, this means making sure that irrigation is
(See HEAT, Page A-7N)
By Phillip Tomlinsonnj.com/south
The possibility of ris-ing sea levels is a sobering concern for billions of peo-ple who inhabit the plan-et’s oceanic coasts. As the waters rise, what was once dry land may be subsumed by the world’s oceans.
Everything from houses, to industry, to the infra-structure that billions of people depend on may be threatened by the encroach-ing oceans.
The effects of rising sea levels are easy enough to imagine. What’s hard is finding solutions that peo-ple are willing to buy into, solutions that could cost millions of dollars and are designed to benefit inhab-itants of the future rather than the present.
But the future could be sooner than we think.
Findings recently pub-
lished in the journal Nature Climate Change identify an accelerated sea level rise along a 600-mile stretch of the Atlantic Coast that runs roughly from Cape Hatteras to Cape Cod.
This ‘hot spot’ encompass-es some of the most heav-ily developed and populated regions of the country.
In many coastal areas, especially South Jersey, millions of people not only live within a few feet of the ocean, but also depend on it for their livelihood. With sea levels projected by some scientists to rise by three feet within the next century, coastal populations must begin preparing as soon as possible.
But the debate on what to do, if anything, often becomes political.
Rising sea levels are often linked directly to global warming caused by human activity, an idea that many Americans dispute. A recent Gallup poll found that 52 percent of Americans think that the effects of global warming have already
For Jersey’s coast, rising seas a danger
(See SEA, Page A-6N)
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An optimistic fan welcomes the return of Chase Utley during a game against the Pirates on June 25 – an all-too-rare Phillies win.
By Rebecca Forand
nj.com/south
It started as a Facebook post on my friend Natasha Beverly’s wall.
“I sure would like to see that time capsule we buried in sixth grade,” she wrote.
And a firestorm began. Three “likes” and 28
comments later, a plan was forming.
It was actually fifth grade, but regardless of that technicality, it was a sunny day in March 1993 when a large group of
9- and 10-year olds from Paulsboro, Greenwich and East Greenwich town-ships gathered in front of a brand new Wendy’s fast food restaurant near the Paulsboro Plaza truck stop – which is actually in Greenwich Township – for its grand opening.
During the celebration, a time capsule was buried. Now, nearly 20 years later, as we who were kids at the time begin to reach and surpass age 30, a group of us are banding together to get it unearthed, all with
Curiosity now quest for ’93 time capsule
(See CAPSULE, Page A-5N)