A Craig LaBan pizza pick in Cherry Hill | Inquirer South Jersey
And another municipality banned data centers.
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Inquirer food critic Craig LaBan visited Barclay Pies in Cherry Hill and found a new standard of gluten-free pizza in the region.
And speaking of Cherry Hill, the township banned large-scale data centers, becoming the latest South Jersey municipality to send a clear message to potential developers.
Plus, Gov. Mikie Sherrill shared Tuesday that about 2,000 registered voters who were identified last week as noncitizens may actually be citizens after all, and more news of the day.
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There’s a reason Barclay Pies in Cherry Hill generates a lot of buzz among the gluten-free community, according to our food critic, Craig LaBan.
The owners worked for nine months to create the crust for its gluten-free pies. LaBan explains that the pizza has a bit of cornmeal for the bottom crunch, a frico cheese band around the edges, and a pan-based format that helps to prevent cross-contamination.
Barclay Pies sells both standard and gluten-free pies, and the latter now accounts for a third of the pizzas they sell.
“There’s a market need for a pizzeria that was truly inclusive,” co-owner Thomas “TJ” Hunton said.
It’s official: No large-scale data centers can come to Cherry Hill.
The township council voted unanimously this week to list data centers as a non-permitted land use within its borders, as debate around artificial intelligence technology continues nationwide.
“We don’t think that Cherry Hill should be a guinea pig,” Cherry Hill Mayor David Fleisher said. “So while the technology is evolving, we wanted to be proactive and make sure that we eliminated a problem before it became one.”
If a developer wanted to build one in the future, they would have to get a land-use variance from the zoning board. And according to a city planner who worked on the ordinance, it’s one of the hardest approvals to get.
So far, no data center developers have approached the township.
Reporter Lacey Latch has the story.
What to know today
About 2,000 of the 6,600 New Jersey registered voters who were identified as noncitizens could be citizens after all, Gov. Sherrill said on Tuesday. The news comes a week after her disclosure that a software glitch registered thousands of noncitizens to vote ahead of the 2024 election.
A state grand jury voted not to file criminal charges on Monday against a Haddon Township police officer in connection to the fatal shooting of a Pennsauken man while responding to a reported burglary in 2024.
Due to this week’s predicted storms, the scheduled maintenance of the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge that was supposed to close to vehicle traffic Tuesday night into Wednesday has now been postponed to begin Monday, Aug. 3, at 9 p.m. and conclude Tuesday, Aug. 4, at 5 a.m.
The Burlington County Library System on Wednesday is launching a “StoryWalk,” an interactive attraction that features reading stations that display pages of an illustrated children’s book. The stations are built around the playground at Riverton Memorial Park.
Four Green Cats Cafe in Mount Laurel announced an expansion coming later this year to a second location under construction in Haddonfield. Owner Nadia Vasa told New Jersey Voyager it will be called The Grand Salon, with a full commercial kitchen to serve authentic Czech dishes and room to host a cultural program.
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