Photo from the book Shell Loading at Amatol, N.J.
Construction and Operation of a Shell Loading Plant and the
Town of Amatol, N.J.

  It took only four months to transform the 6,000-acre site between the White Horse Pike and Elwood-Pleasant Mills Road from a wooded wilderness into an industrial hub bomb making facility at the tail end of World War I.

But shortly after the armistice of Nov. 11, 1918, the plant's operations ceased, and the village - named Amatol after.....Continue Reading

MULLICA TOWNSHIP - Two of Thanksgiving's most cherished icons - football and turkey - were celebrated Wednesday morning on a soggy field at the Mullica Township Middle School.

The football game was the annual "Turkey Bowl" flag football contest between the 8th-grade class and members of the faculty. A festively costumed Principal Brenda Harring-Marro was the turkey.

And computer teacher Todd Curll - a devoted Pittsburgh Steelers fan - dressed in drag as a Philadelphia Eagles cheerleader came free of charge....Continue Reading

By ROB SPAHR, Staff Writer | Posted: Friday, November 20, 2009 | 1 comment

MULLICA TOWNSHIP - The Mullica Township and Washington Township school districts entered into a three-year shared-services agreement in 2007, and now each district is trying to decide whether it is something worth continuing.

Under the terms of the agreement, which expires in June, the Washington Township School District pays the neighboring Mullica Township School District an annual stipend for the use of upper-level administrators, including the superintendent, principal and business administrator at its Green Bank School. The district also pays Mullica for its child study team and cafeteria services....Continue Reading

By ROB SPAHR, Staff Writer | Posted: Friday, November 13, 2009 | 2 comments

MULLICA TOWNSHIP - Deputy Mayor William Kennedy changed his party affiliation in April because he could not get along with his fellow Democrats.

"They left me. I didn't leave them," he still insists.

But after a Democratic sweep of the two open Township Committee seats in the Nov. 3 election, Kennedy will be the only Republican left on the five-person committee and will have no choice but to coexist with the people who once called for his resignation....Continue Reading

By ELAINE ROSE Staff Writer | Posted: Thursday, November 12, 2009 | 0 comments

MAYS LANDING - A 61-year-old Mullica Township man pleaded guilty Thursday to carjacking and other offenses after he tried to heist a woman's car in the parking lot of a Hammonton supermarket, Atlantic County Prosecutor Ted Housel said.

By ROB SPAHR Staff Writer | Posted: Friday, November 6, 2009 | 0 comments

MULLICA TOWNSHIP - The seven provisional ballots tallied by the Atlantic County Board of Elections on Friday did not change the outcome of the race for Township Committee.....Continue Reading