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‘That’s Wilson,’ Taylor says of the volleyball before sitting down to smoke a cigarette in the sitting area shared by Taylor and several other homeless men. The name is a reference to the Tom Hanks movie ‘Cast Away,’ about a man struggling to survive on an uninhabited island while others give him up for dead.

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Out in the woods, just steps away from

shoppers running their errands, a small community has been struggling to survive. It’s not just a big city

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Joe Taylor, a 49-year-old homeless man, sits under a tarp by his tent where he lives in the woods, near a com-mercial area in Deptford. He claims to have lived there for nearly seven years.

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They know who we are. They judge us. People look at you, and they know your clothes are dirty. People like us don’t matter. If we die, nobody cares.

–­ Howard ‘Sonny’ Barr

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Joe Taylor sat by himself under the cover of trees, smoking the stump of a cigarette.

He can hear the non-stop rum-ble of road noise on the other side of the tree line. He knows a family that reminds him of his own is stopping for pizza down the street. A guy he went to school with just left the convenience store nearby, jumped into his truck and moved on to his next stop.

Nobody gives a second thought to the patch of Deptford woods where Taylor has been living in a one-room tent.

Nobody “on the outside” realizes Taylor isn’t the only homeless man there.

nTaylor, 49, claims to have lived

in the woods near a commercial

area in Deptford for seven years. The first four years, Taylor had the run of the place.

When he came out of a 10-month stint in jail, he had com-pany.

More men, mostly white in their late 40s and early 50s, had moved

in, creating a hidden tent city right under Gloucester County’s nose.

“We keep discouraging people from coming back here, but they keep finding us,” Taylor said, swatting a mosquito off the cigar shop Indian tattoo on his left arm.

Taylor’s best friend “right now” is a tall, thin 43-year-old man who goes by Imme Six. After 10 years of on-again, off-again homeless-ness, Imme Six pitched his red and white Coleman tent a hundred paces from where Taylor sleeps — on a baby’s plastic-covered mat-tress inside a blue and gray tent.

(See HOMELESS, Page A-6N)

By Don E. Woods

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After last month’s dere-cho storm that ravaged the mid-Atlantic states, South Jersey residents may have begun to wonder about the nation’s weather alert

systems and how accurate they can be.

On June 30, a massive windstorm ripped through New Jersey, causing thousands of power out-ages, a massive amount of damage and the death of two boys camping out

in Parvin State Park. The storm occurred at night and some electric custom-ers went a week without power.

According to Mary Goep-fert, spokeswoman for the New Jersey Office of Emergency Management

(OEM), all weather alerts come from the National Weather Service.

“When we see that come in, we amplify the mes-sage,” Goepfert said.

If the storm has been

Technology speeding up weather warnings

(See ALERTS, Page A-12N)

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AURORA, Colo. — The Colorado shooting suspect planned the rampage that killed 12 midnight movie-goers with “calculation and deliberation,” police said Saturday, receiving deliv-eries for months which authorities believe armed him for battle and were used to rig his apartment with dozens of bombs.

Authorities on Saturday were still working to clear dangerous explosive mate-rials from inside James Holmes’ suburban Denver apartment a day after police said he opened fire and set off gas canisters in a sub-urban theater minutes into the premiere of the Bat-man film “The Dark Knight

Rises.” The attack left 12 dead and 58 injured.

His apartment was rigged with jars of liquids, explosives and chemicals that were booby trapped to kill “whoever entered it,” Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates said, noting it would have likely been one of his officers.(See SHOOTING, Page A-8N)

Police: Attack was planned for months■ Authorities were still taking explosive items from James Holmes’ apartment

MORE INSIDEn Victims killed in the movie theater rampage identified. Page A-4N.

n Father’s visible agony captures the pain for the families. Page A-5N.

n Woman’s birthday trip turns into one of fear and horror. Page A-5N.

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The new Cooper Medical School of Rowan University is located at 401 South Broadway in Camden.

By Jessica Bautista

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CAMDEN — Cooper Medical School of Rowan University is hosting its long-awaited grand open-ing on Tuesday, marking a monumental milestone for both the university and the hospital.

In June 2009, Rowan University and the Coo-per Health System jointly decided to address the physician shortage locally and nationally, as well as to improve health care

throughout the region.“They approached us

and we said, ‘Yeah, we’re in. Let’s do it,’ ” said Rowan University spokesman Joe Cardona. “We were ready and willing while other folks weren’t.”

According to Cardona, Cooper had been on the quest for its own four-year medical school for decades. The health system turned to Rowan University when other entities “didn’t have the wherewithal to part-ner.”

New med school preps for its debut

(See SCHOOL, Page A-8N)