Kevin Riordan

A native of western Massachusetts, Kevin Riordan received a degree in journalism from Syracuse University. His first newspaper job was at the Cherry Hill News, a Gannett-owned weekly. At the Courier Post, he was the one-man bureau in Camden for eight years and also held a number of other high-profile jobs. He left the paper in 2007 to become vice president for communications for Volunteers of America/Delaware County.

Email Kevin at kriordan@phillynews.com

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Mark and Helena Guarnere at their Lakeside Recovery Center in Sicklerville, where they offer therapy.

Now sober, Gloucester Twp. couple help addicts

By Kevin Riordan, Inquirer Columnist

04/02/2013

Mark and Helena Guarnere learned about the addiction treatment business the hard way: As patients. "We know how it feels to sit in a chair during group therapy, trying to stay sober," says Mark, 45, who, like his wife, is a recovering alcoholic.

Gay conversion: a myth to legislate away 03/24/2013: By Kevin Riordan, Inquirer Columnist

Kevin Riordan: Successful techniques to transform gays into straights are like Saddam's weapons of mass destruction; they don't exist but can still cause a lot of damage.
At Audubon school, it's like music to his ears 03/21/2013: By Kevin Riordan, Inquirer Columnist

I attempted to learn the clarinet in seventh grade - an experience about which I can hardly toot my own horn.
The upper Cooper River, a gem that many miss 03/19/2013: By Kevin Riordan, Inquirer Columnist

Kevin Riordan: To walk the upper Cooper River trail is to discover a secret hidden in plain sight.
Memories of war and of a Camden now long gone 03/17/2013: By Kevin Riordan, Inquirer Columnist

At 83, Clarence H. Davis still fits into the Army uniform he wore in Korea 60 years ago. These days, he dons his old sergeant's stripes to remind school audiences about what's often called the "forgotten" war - and about the overlooked role of African American servicemen in the conflict.
In South Jersey crosswalk drama, tears lead to fears 03/14/2013: By Kevin Riordan, Inquirer Columnist

A tearful girl who ran away from a crossing guard outside the Helen L. Beeler Elementary School on Friday morning turned up safe after seven Evesham Township police cars were deployed to the school.
A success story in affordable housing 03/12/2013: By Kevin Riordan, Inquirer Columnist

Kevin Riordan: President and CEO Matthew A. Reilly's office at Moorestown Ecumenical Neighborhood Development Inc. is in the basement. His office door opens into a waiting room where tenants and would-be tenants gather. And that's exactly how this boss likes it.
Joined in losses, they have found sisterhood together 03/10/2013: By Kevin Riordan, Inquirer Columnist

Laura Watabu and the four other women around her Cherry Hill dining-room table call themselves "The Bad-Ass HALOS." The acronym stands for Healing After Losing Our Spouses. The adjective is self-explanatory.
Cherry tree fan still loves the blossoms 03/07/2013: By Kevin Riordan, Inquirer Columnist

When the Chapel Avenue cherry blossoms put on their April show, Joe Zanghi treasures the view from the west at sunset.
Today's prom invitations dramatic in scale, ambition 03/05/2013: By Kevin Riordan, Inquirer Columnist

Kelly Nelson was rather expecting her best friend, Pat Burns, to ask her to the Haddon Township High School prom.
Ex-Fortune 500 exec takes on parish fund 03/03/2013: By Kevin Riordan, Inquirer Columnist

Kevin Riordan: As a Fortune 500 executive with a mahogany-paneled office in Red Bank, Mark Hodges could watch sailboats gliding on the waters of the Navesink. His new full-time workplace at St. Joseph Pro-Cathedral parish offers a view of a half-vacant duplex on a tired East Camden street.