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Beloved NJ College Rowing Coach Battles Cancer, Needs Heart Transplant: Campaign Beloved NJ College Rowing Coach Battles Cancer, Needs Heart Transplant: Campaign
Beloved NJ College Rowing Coach Battles Cancer, Needs Heart Transplant: Campaign A retired Stockton University rowing head coach is battling cancer and looking for a heart transplant, according to a fundraising campaign. John Bancheri was hired in December 2018 as Stockton's first full-time women's rowing coach, the Galloway Township college said. Bancheri is an Atlantic City native with about 40 years of experience as a college rowing coach. A GoFundMe page for Bancheri had raised more than $31,000 from at least 240 donations as of Monday, Mar. 11. "John has always been about coaching and giving to others," the GoFundMe page said. "But coaching is not financially rewa…

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by Chris Spiker
Police & Fire
SEEN HIM? Mentally Ill South Jersey Man Missing Since September SEEN HIM? Mentally Ill South Jersey Man Missing Since September
Seen HIM? Mentally Ill South Jersey Man Missing Since September Gloucester Township police continue to search for a missing 47-year-old man who suffers from mental illness, authorities said. He has been sighted in Camden and Philadelphia, police said. ,On Sept. 16, Gloucester Township Police were dispatched to Hilltop Estates located on the Black Horse Pike in the Blackwood section of Gloucester Township for a report of a missing person. At that time, Andrew Brown was last seen on Sept. 13, at approximately 7 a.m. at his residence in Hilltop Estates.  Since having gone missing, Brown was reported to be at a friend’s house in Camden City;…

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by Jon Craig
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VIDEO: College Lacrosse All-American, Coronavirus Survivor, 26, Discharged From Hospital VIDEO: College Lacrosse All-American, Coronavirus Survivor, 26, Discharged From Hospital
Video: College Lacrosse All-American, Coronavirus Survivor, 26, Discharged From Hospital A New Jersey coronavirus patient whose mother's quest to get him an experimental drug went viral was discharged from a Philadelphia hospital Thursday night. A Facebook video shows Methuchen's Jack Allard being applauded by doctors and nurses as he's released from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. The video ends with Jack hugging his Ridgewood parents. Allard was taken off a ventilator and able to take sips of water last weekend. In an earlier interview with Daily Voice, Jack's mother, Genny Allard, said she hoped doctors would treat her son with remdesivir, a drug currently …

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by Jon Craig
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NJ Lax Player, Slowly Making Comeback From Coronavirus NJ Lax Player, Slowly Making Comeback From Coronavirus
NJ Lax Player, Slowly Making Comeback From Coronavirus A New Jersey coronavirus patient whose mother's quest to get him an experimental drug went viral is slowly making a comeback from coronavirus, family and friends say. Jack Allard of Metuchen, who turned 26 this month, was airlifted to an intensive care unit at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania three weeks ago.  Unconfirmed reports on Facebook say Allard was recently taken off a ventilator and able to take sips of water. SEE HAPPY UPDATE: Jack Released from UPenn Hospital.  In an earlier interview with Daily Voice, Jack's mother, Genny Allard of Ridgewood, said she hopes doct…

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by Jon Craig