Source: https://patch.com/new-jersey/cinnaminson/mtv-crew-comes-to-cinnaminson
Jan 15, 2011
A film crew for the popular MTV reality series "True Life" came to The Jug Handle Inn from 10 to 10:30 p.m. Jan. 14. The crew was filming "True Life: I'm Allergic to Everything" featuring a local resident hanging out at his favorite bar.
The local subject for the series responded to an MTV casting call last October looking for young people ages 16-23 who suffer from multiple allergies or one severe, life-threatening allergy.
It was Friday night business as usual at The Jug, and although some of the customers knew the MTV reality series was in the corner of the basement level by the dartboard recording segments for its show, no one interfered or overcrowded the film crew's work.
Kevin and Nicole Stone, owners of The Jug Handle Inn, said the crew was discreet and only filmed for about 30 minutes. The Stones said MTV gave them very limited information about the details of the show and the producer did not disclose who was being featured or any other details about the show.
"They (MTV) called one day and told us they were filming about this guy living with multiple allergies," Nicole Stone said.
"They told me they were coming because this kid loves this bar and they are filming his everyday life."
Kevin Stone added, "They were here for a half-hour. You wouldn't even know they were here."
Segments on "True Life: I'm Allergic to Everything" will show how allergy sufferers are affected on a daily basis by constantly wiping their eyes, blowing their noses and using their inhalers.
The series will also show how everyday things like going out to eat or shopping can be dangerous for multiple or severe allergy sufferers. The segments will mention how exposure to common foods and items can cause severe and multiple allergy sufferers to break out in hives, to have a severe allergic reaction or to stop breathing.
Best Wings: The Jug Handle Inn
Source: https://www.burlingtoncountytimes.com/article/20111031/NEWS/310319799By Ryan Feldman
Oct 31, 2011
The Jug Handle Inn won Best Wings in the reader survey.
The Jug Handle Inn has been at the same location on South Fork Landing Road in Cinnaminson since 1912, but if you haven’t been there in a few years you may want to give it another visit.
New owners Kevin and Nicole Stone have given the Jug Handle Inn a “face-lift” and helped turn its “corner bar” reputation into one that appeals to families but still maintains its sports bar atmosphere.
Nichole and Kevin, owners of the Jug Handle Inn.
“It’s a family atmosphere during the day, and at night we get a young adult crowd,” Kevin said. “It always had the reputation of ‘my grandfather would go to the Jug.’ We changed the reputation. It’s more of a sports bar.”
But one thing certainly hasn’t changed: The wings at the Jug Handle Inn remain among the best in the area. But it’s not just about the wings. The Stones have increased the bottle beer selection and have added many new food items to the menu. According to Kevin, everything on the menu is now home-made.
Some of the staff at The Jug Handle Inn.
“We added full waitress service,” Kevin said. “We increased the food by 20 percent. Families can come here and sit down and eat like at a normal restaurant. It wasn’t like that before. It was like a corner bar crowd mentality before we bought it. Since we gave it a face-lift and started changing things up, it’s been great.”
From 3 to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday, the Jug Handle Inn offers half-price wings.
″(The best part of working here is) the atmosphere,” Kevin said. “The people are great that I work with. The customers are great. There’s always something different. It always brings surprises.”
Burlington County Times - Forty Under 40 2013 - Kevin Stone, Owner, The Jug Handle Inn
Source: https://www.burlingtoncountytimes.com/fbea2549-9e88-5c15-90d5-664dee460e1d.html
Monday, July 8, 2013 5:31 pm
Kevin Andrew Stone
Q. What high school/college did you attend, and what did you study?
A. Syracuse University, political science.
Q. What is your ultimate goal in life?
A. Become Governor of New Jersey.
Q. What inspires you to do what you do?
A. The ability that I was able to follow in my fathers footsteps in the bar and restaurant business and to follow my passion for great bar food and quality beer.
Q. What is your most fulfilling experience to date?
A. The birth of my children
Q. What one person, living or dead, would you want to spend a day with and why?
A. Chris Christie. Just to see what he does and how he handles the people he has to deal with would be incredibly interesting.
Q. Tell us something that most people don’t know about you.
A. I’m a big kid! I love to have fun and show my silly side.
Q. What in your life helps you get through your day?
A. When I come home to my kids.
Q. What is or was #1 on your “Bucket List”?
A. To have my own Food Network Tailgating cooking show.
Q. Beach or shore?
A. POOL
Q. If there was a biography written about you, what would the title be?
A. ”The Balancing Act!” Balancing a very crazy schedule between my business, my children’s activities and my volunteer work.
Q. Advice for your fellow young up and comers?
A. Stand up for what you believe in. Don’t give up on your dreams and always follow through with them.
Listen to "Kevin Stone Interview 10/16" on Spreaker.
Digging Up The Past Anthropologists Examine Highway Site
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20160103085228/http://articles.philly.com/1986-03-23/news/26084594_1_anthropologists-road-work-shardsBy Arlene Martin, Special to The Inquirer
Posted: March 23, 1986Far from the layered ruins of Caeserina Romana, the ancient provincial capital of Palestine, John Elias, anthropologist, is measuring off a 5-foot square of packed earth.
The square contains random rocks that might have once served as boiling stones to prepare dinner for an ancient American Indian tribe that lived in Pennsauken.
Elias, who usually works in complex digs in the Middle East, is working in New Jersey so that he can earn money to return to the Middle East this summer.
He is part of a team of 14 anthropologists working along the south branch of Pennsauken Creek, on the Jug Handle Inn site, Fork Landing Road, that soon will be spanned by the convergence of Routes 90 and 73.
The team works for Louis Berger Co., East Orange, a company that contracts to perform work on sites that will be affected by programs funded by the federal government.
Berger has contracted with the New Jersey Department of Transportation to investigate sites all over the state before construction projects begin.
"We do investigations that meet the federal mandate for environmental assessments," said Michael Finn, a principal investigator. "Sometimes the studies involve fish and game, wildlife, noise, traffic, and more."
Field director Judd Kratzer said the Jug Handle site would be used to build a regional picture of how interior drainage systems along creeks were used in the state in ancient times.
The 60-by-30-foot site, believed to be active around 500 B.C. (possibly earlier or later), may have been used temporarily by Woodlands Indians. Shards of pottery have been discovered, as well as a few other artifacts. There are no remnants of wood, antler or bone tools, however, since the soil is too acidic to retain bones.
The anthropologists, armed with sieves, spades, measuring tapes, brushes, dental tools, levels and plastic storage bags, have been working for three weeks to compile as much information as possible before road work begins.
Mike Timpanaro of Wamamassa, N.J., stood at the chiseled step of one grid, brushing a piece of pottery that he would label and send to the Berger Laboratory in East Orange. Eventually, the shard would be sent to the State Museum in Trenton.
Holding the brownish fragment up for examination, Timpanaro explained what it could mean.
"This seems to be a pot shard tempered with argelite, a stone that weathers poorly because it's soft," he said. "We have other shards like this and by comparing them we can find rough dates for when pottery was tempered in this manner. We might even get enough shards to reconstruct enough to get an idea of what kind of vessel was used."
Timpanaro also has found arrowheads or projectile points; scrapers for scraping skin or hides, even grooved scrapers for cleaning arrow head shafts.
In the anthropologist's van, Kratzer reveals a "gorget," a piece of ground slate with holes drilled through it.
"This seems to be one half of what could have been a neck piece, " he said. "Notice the delicate lines, the pattern of scratching around the edges. Maybe someone scratched this so they could wear it and look down to read the lines or etchings."
As the anthropologists work, sifting earth, brushing specimens, labeling and sorting their finds, the clues and the puzzles mount.
By the end of the month, the data will have been collected, and the anthropologists will move on to other sites, other states and other countries.
And the Jug Handle Inn site will once more be a crossroads for travelers, as it had been more than 1,000 years ago.
Route 90 Set To Open This Week
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20160304063331/http://articles.philly.com/1988-10-23/news/26272928_1_route-new-jersey-department-planning-directorBy Dianne Gordon-Lyle, Special to The Inquirer
Posted: October 23, 1988Bob Bacon has been suffering every businessman's nightmare for the last year.
Bacon's restaurant, the Jug Handle Inn at Route 73 and Fork Landing Road in Cinnaminson, has a good location and a well-established reputation. But his customers haven't been able to reach him.
His restaurant sits in a $23 million building site where Route 73 is being upgraded and Route 90, a 1.8-mile, six-lane connector between the already existing highway and the Betsy Ross Bridge, is being finished.
A mile-long section of Route 73 was widened through Pennsauken, Maple Shade and Cinnaminson, and the intersection with Fork Landing Road has been reconstructed.
This week, the work will be virtually completed. A dedication ceremony has been scheduled for Tuesday afternoon on Route 90, and transportation officials plan to open the road to traffic in time for that evening's rush hour. But, as New Jersey Department of Transporation workers hurried to put finishing touches on the road last week, Bacon - who has owned the restaurant since 1980 - wondered if business would ever return to normal.
"It's been terrible," he said. "It just about put me out of business."
He said traffic tie-ups discouraged potential luncheon customers. With two of the three entrances to the parking lot closed by construction fencing, dinner customers were also chased away, he said.
"The traffic would be backed up for miles, so people couldn't get in and out of here in an hour for lunch," Bacon said. "That killed the daytime business, and at night, people went to alternative restaurants. Sometimes it didn't pay to be open."
Robert Wagner, Pennsauken's planning director, said Bacon's problems reflected those of the small mix of businesses operating in the construction zone, which is "99 percent developed."
"We were lucky because most of the work where Route 90 crosses Haddonfield Road was rerouting work," he said. "But it didn't do (Route) 73 any good. Anyone using that was in trouble. The Jug Handle Inn had a terrible time."
Route 90 was originally planned in the 1960s to be part of a two-state highway network stretching from the Pulaski Expressway in Northeast Philadelphia, to the bridge, Route 295 and the New Jersey Turnpike.
The bridge was finished in 1974, but plans for the Pulaski and Route 90 were scrapped because of increasing costs and environmental concerns.
An access route eventually was connected to Interstate 95 in Philadelphia. But the Betsy Ross remained a virtual stepsister, used by only 19,615 vehicles a day in 1986, compared to 68,000 on the Tacony-Palmyra.
A shorter version of the highway was included in the $3.2 billion Transportation Trust Fund, created by Gov. Kean in 1984.
By the time construction began in March 1986, accommodations had to be made for heightened environmental concerns. Five viaducts were built over the Pennsauken Creek, the ecologically sensitive home for local waterfowl.
"We had to address the wetlands, so grease traps were used for drainage to catch all the oils and stuff from the roadway before the water emptied into the creek," said Ron Maruca, NJDOT's resident engineer for the Route 90 project.
About 120 employees worked at the site during the height of construction this summer, Maruca said. The number has dwindled to about 30.
"We're doing general cleanup work and landscaping, and we'll also have (soundwall) work that will probably continue into the beginning of November.
"I'd say it looks pretty good, but I'm prejudiced."
Once the road opens, transportation officials hope Route 90 will drain traffic from congested sections of Routes 130 and 73 while encouraging motorists to use the Betsy Ross Bridge instead of the Ben Franklin or Tacony- Palmyra spans.
"We've been anxious to have the connections on the Pennsylvania and New Jersey sides ever since the bridge was put into service," said Ronald Flegel, manager of construction for the Delaware River Port Authority.
"This will help two-state traffic movement of both the trucking industry and individuals using their cars."
The Port Authority so far has paid $6.5 million, including a $4 million ''down payment" in 1986, to cover the state Transportation Department's construction costs. The authority has agreed to pay the Transportation Department an additional $2.5 million if traffic on the bridge increases, said agency spokesman Carlton Read.
"It was a wonderful agreement," he said. "If the usage of the bridge should drop, we would not have to pay in that year. It's kind of unusual, but it makes good sense. The traffic on the bridge is steadily increasing, and we hope it will make a pretty good leap once Route 90 is open."
Wagner said he expects building conversions and new construction once the road is open.
"Properties that abut the Pennsauken Mart, the old Atlantic Thrift and the Stardust Ballroom are moving," he said. "Plans are coming to the planning board for a shopping mall and another 40,000-square-foot building.
"It will be a crapshoot to see how much traffic the highway takes off (Interstate) 295 and (Route)130. The biggest impact will be if people from Philadelphia come to New Jersey rather than the other way around."
New Jersey Transportation Commissioner Hazel Gluck and Port Authority Commissioner Francis Bodine are among those scheduled to participate in the 3 p.m. ribbon-cutting.
Bacon simply hopes that business returns to normal sometime thereafter.
"I'm frustrated right now," he said. "But I sure am hoping things will get better soon."
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