Bumpus, Robert L. "Salem County Report on Consolidation and Regionalization, Office of the Executive County Superintendent of Salem County, March 15, 2010, available at the website of the Asbury Park Press. Accessed October 20, 2014. "A contiguous elementary district, Oldmans Township, sends its students primarily to Penns Grove High School and a smaller number of students to Woodstown High School."
Kirkpatrick, D. L.; and Vinson, James. Contemporary Dramatists, p. 162. St. James Press, 1988. ISBN9780312166649. Accessed September 17, 2015. "James Roose-Evans FOSTER, Paul. American. Born in Penns Grove, New Jersey, 15 October 1931."
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"Black, Kenneth Algernon", Cape May County Herald, January 31, 2019, updated February 11, 2019. Accessed December 6, 2022. "Born Kenneth Algernon Black on 12/23/1932, passed away 1/29/2019. He grew up in Penns Grove, NJ."
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Penns Grove, NJ, DiscoverSalemCounty.com. Accessed September 17, 2015. "ohn Fenwick and William Penn later owned this land, the town was later named in honor of William Penn."
"Here are the 30 N.J. towns with the highest property tax rates", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, March 15, 2021. Accessed January 19, 2022. "The average equalized tax rate in New Jersey was 2.279 in 2020, according to data from the Department of Community Affairs. Here is the list of 30 New Jersey towns with the highest property tax rates.... 4. Penns Grove Equalized tax rate in Penns Grove Borough, Salem County, was 5.556 in 2020 Average equalized tax rate in Salem County: 3.476"
Young, Alex. "Two new members sworn in to Penns Grove Borough Council", South Jersey Times, February 6, 2014. Accessed August 17, 2015. "Ulpiano Padilla and Deborah Scott were sworn in to fill two seats that had been left vacant on council.Council members Darwin Coleman and Stephanie Stewart both submitted letters of resignation to the council, leaving two seats vacant for un-expired terms.... From the names provided by the committee, borough council tapped Padilla and Scott to fill the vacant seats of Stewart and Coleman respectively."
Annual Comprehensive Financial Report of the Penns Grove-Carneys Point Regional School District, New Jersey Department of Education, for year ending June 30, 2018. Accessed March 22, 2020. "The Penns Grove-Carneys Point Regional School District (hereafter referred to as the 'School District') is a Type II district located in the County of Salem, State of New Jersey. As a Type II district, the School District functions independently through a Board of Education. The Board is comprised of nine members elected to three-year terms. These terms are staggered so that three members' terms expire each year. The purpose of the School District is to educate students in grades K-12 at its five schools."
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The Mayor, Borough of Penns Grove. Accessed February 22, 2023. "LaDaena is in her second year of her first term as Mayor of Penns Grove, NJ. She was elected in November of 2019 (defeating a 20-year incumbent) as the first female mayor of Penns Grove and the first African American woman to be elected mayor in Salem County."
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Gross, Jane. 'Blue-collar Walker", Sports Illustrated, November 23, 1970. Accessed October 31, 2013. "While race walking is a laughing matter for many, for Dave Romansky it has been a means of changing a life that began in Penns Grove, N.J. and seemed to be leading no farther than Pennsville, N.J., seven miles away, where he now lives with his wife Dot and their three children."
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E. Martin Hennings, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Accessed October 31, 2013. "Painter, printmaker. After graduating from high school, Hennings left his native Pennsgrove, New Jersey, for five years of study at the Art Institute of Chicago."
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Staff. "Sport: The Twig Was Bent", TIME (magazine), April 20, 1959. Accessed October 31, 2013. "He was just a ten-year-old in Penns Grove, N.J. when he set his mind on becoming Tarzan—or a movieland version of him.... At Villanova University, Don Bragg neglected rope swinging for pole vaulting, flew so high, despite his hefty 200 lbs., that two months ago he set the world's indoor record of 15 ft. 9½ in."
Corliss, Richard. "Charlie's an Angel Now: John Forsythe Dies at 92", Time (magazine), April 3, 2010. Accessed April 17, 2012. "Born in 1918 in Penns Grove, N.J., as John Lincoln Freund, the son of a Wall Street stockbroker, Forsythe married and divorced early, joined the Army and, as a soldier, appeared in the Broadway play Winged Victory and the war movie Destination Tokyo, both in 1943."
