By ROB SPAHR, Staff Writer | Posted: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 | 0 comments

MULLICA TOWNSHIP - The polls closed with the Democratic candidates for the two open Township Committee seats in the lead. But with an estimated 125 absentee and provisional ballots still to be counted, none of the candidates were willing to accept victory - or defeat....Continue Reading

From Press staff reports | Posted: Saturday, October 31, 2009 | 1 comment

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP - The Lower Bank bridge will be closed to traffic, bicycles and pedestrians Thursday and Friday while crews install a new main drive motor to the bridge, Burlington County officials said. The drawbridge will remain up to allow boats to pass on the Mullica River.

Route 652 will be closed between Batsto-Bridgeport Road (Route 542) and Green Bank-Batsto Road (Route 563) while the work is done. Drivers are asked to use the Green Bank Bridge as an alternative.

By ROB SPAHR, Staff Writer | Posted: Friday, October 30, 2009 | 1 comment

MULLICA TOWNSHIP  - Three of the four candidates running for Township Committee say they will work to end public infighting among committee members. The fourth candidate insists that any problems among committee members are the fault of the opposing party and that members of her party always performed their duties with open minds and entirely above-board.....Continue Reading

By STEVEN LEMONGELLO Staff Writer, 609-272-7275 | Posted: Saturday, October 3, 2009 | 0 comments

MULLICA TOWNSHIP - "It blows your mind," said Kathleen Bettschinger, "what people do in their spare time."

The area west of the Garden State Parkway may well be uncharted territory for many tourists to our area, conditioned as they are to simply blasting through it on the way to Atlantic City or Wildwood, but anyone who does venture into the woods and farms may be rewarded with a sight you can't see on a beach or in a nightclub - monstrous contraptions hurling pumpkins into space...Continue Reading

By BEN MERITT • Staff Writer • September 30, 2009

HAMMONTON -- Cpl. Frank Lopez of the Hammonton Police Department died unexpectedly Sunday at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center Mainland Campus in Galloway Township....Continue Reading 

By ROB SPAHR Staff Writer, 609-272-7283 | Posted: Thursday, September 17, 2009 | 0 comments

HAMMONTON - The crowd began lining up hours before he arrived.

This was not surprising, considering volunteers had spent the previous two weeks hanging banners, painting greetings on the sides of buildings, planting flowers and mowing lawns to make sure the town looked its best for him.

It was to be the most important day in Hammonton's rich history - a visit from President Ronald Reagan. And 25 years later, it still is....Continue Reading