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The food pantry at Grace Episcopal Church in Merchantville is not scheduled to open this week after 40 years of providing food to the needy. The weekly service was halted last Wednesday in the early afternoon after nearly 900 families received bags of food, many had waited in a line of cars for hours before being served. Borough leaders in Merchantville had raised concerns about traffic and neighbor complaints before. But this time, the municipality issued a statement that the church and borough had “agreed … that the food pantry had grown beyond their control.” But church leaders said they …

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