Where Creativity and Confidence Take Center Stage

Fifteen years ago, local performer Mindy Baiada, who also had Broadway experience, was searching for drama classes for her two daughters. When she couldn't...

Uplifting Their Voices

Sharing your writing with the world can often be a vulnerable, yet therapeutic, experience at any age. From seemingly innocuous anecdotes about daily life...

Helping Little Voices Be Heard

What started out as a private speech therapy practice in a one-room barn behind the home of Nicole Raso, a Hammonton-based speech-language pathologist, has...

Where the Weird and Wonderful Come Out to Play

Don Swenson, president of Art Club of Hammonton, didn’t know what to expect as they presented their inaugural Hamm-O-Ween last October. Maybe a thousand people,...

Beyond the Bell: Hammonton Schools Don’t Take the Summer Off

It is usually true that during the summer season schools take a pause and go into break mode, but that is not the case...

Moving Beyond Pain

For more than a year, Jessica Cardoza’s life was being disrupted by thoracic outlet syndrome, a painful nerve condition. Hoping to avoid surgery, she...

The Hook | Issue 14