A memorial service for Ray Samulis of Roebling, a professor and agricultural agent for Burlington County for more than four decades, will be Friday.
Samulis, also a Jersey sweet corn expert who helped develop and improve varieties enjoyed by consumers and well-known in the farming community, died last month after complications from heart surgery. He was 69.
Samulis was a Rutgers University-New Brunswick professor and the Rutgers Agricultural Extension Service agent for Burlington County for 41 years before retiring in 2017.
He had gained statewide recognition for expertise with sweet corn and was responsible for establishing the Rutgers extension service’s comprehensive sweet corn program for field research, training seminars and marketing research. He also was a home vintner who earned awards for his homemade wines.
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New year, new title for Burlington County board
MOUNT HOLLY Burlington County’s governing body will no longer go by the board of chosen freeholders.
It is now known as the Burlington County Board of Commissioners after legislation to remove the outdated title, seen as a symbol of racial injustice, went into effect on Jan. 1.
The board held its reorganization meeting, the first meeting under its new name and first meeting of the year, on Wednesday.
Commissioners Tom Pullion and Balvir Singh were sworn in to new terms after their reelection in November, and Commissioner Dan O’Connell was appointed deputy director of the board.