Nicole Pensiero

For the Courier-Post;
It’s a bitterly cold Saturday in January and Mary Lewis of Cherry Hill wants to fight off her cabin fever. So, on a whim, she agrees to take a drive with a friend deep into the heart of rural South Jersey. The scenery along Route 55 South to Pilesgrove, Salem County, is beautiful, she notes — but once Lewis arrives at the Cowtown Farmers Market, her eyes are focused strictly on the dizzyingly array of stuff to buy.
Cowtown, like many other popular farmers markets in the ...

Only two weeks after a glorious late February weekend spent in the Pocono Mountains, relaxing at Lake Harmony’s Split Rock Resort, the world – and with it, the Poconos tourism industry – shut down in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
With summer 2020 now upon us, the four-county region that makes up the Poconos is reopening, with a focus on safety. This means that all is not lost for those seeking a little R&R in the mountains.
And why not? From its humble beginnings in the late 1800s as a d...

“I’m planning to play a long set … songs going back to the very beginning, then to the present day, and maybe a new song or two,” Gray says of the seven-city North American tour, which stops Wednesday at the Scottish Rite Cathedral in Collingswood for a sold-out show, then segues next month into a European jaunt. He’s envisioning his concerts divided into two sets: the first half, an overview of personal career-spanning favorites; the second, fan-favorite hits like “Babylon,” “Fugitive,” and ...

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