Posted: Thursday, April 14, 2011 7:49 pm

By LEE PROCIDA Staff Writer pressofAtlanticCity.com

Police arrested a Mullica Township man Thursday for blowing up his neighbor's mailbox on New Year's Day.

Kevin Anderson, 42, of Grape Avenue, allegedly built an improvised explosive device and instructed two juveniles to put it in the mailbox of a.....Continue Reading

Runners start dressed in holiday gear the 5k race. Sunday November 28 2010 Gianna's Gingle Bell 5K Run and Walk starting at the Mullica Elementary School, organized to raise money for Gianna DeRosa, an 8th grade student with a malignant brain tumor. (The Press of Atlantic City / Ben Fogletto)

Photo by: Ben Fogletto

Santa Claus gets runners started Sunday at Mullica Township Elementary School during ‘Gianna’s Gingle Bell 5K Run and Walk’ to benefit Gianna DeRosa, an eighth-grade student  with a.......Continue Reading

A 5K race and fundraiser dinner will be held Sunday to benefit a Mullica Township eighth-grader undergoing treatment for a malignant brain tumor.

Gianna De Rosa, 13, underwent surgery and is receiving chemotherapy and radiation treatments at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Gianna’s Gingle Bell 5K Run and Walk will be held at the township middle school to raise money for the family. Registration for the event begins at 11 a.m. The race starts at noon at the school on Elwood Road.

A benefit dinner with a 50/50 drawing and silent auction will be held at 3 p.m. at Christina’s Restaurant and Bar on the White Horse Pike in Egg Harbor City. For more information, contact Mishelle Perona at 609-517-6537, Lisa Jiampetti at 609-457-8092 or Liz Steelman at 609-829-2975.

MULLICA TOWNSHIP - A birch tree could be seen growing through the middle of a worn tire, the sunlight shimmered off glass embedded in the dirt and mangled heaps of lumber and metal were scattered all about.

"It's a thing of beauty," Public Works Supervisor Peter Berenato said. "This looks 300 times better than it did when.....Continue Reading

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MULLICA TOWNSHIP — From the perspective she has today, Alesia Shute considers herself lucky to have been so gravely unlucky.

At 7 years old, Shute was diagnosed with a cancer rarely seen before age 50 that threatened to kill her before her 16th birthday. She spent a traumatic childhood in hospitals around Philadelphia and had invasive surgeries for decades to help her survive.

But the experience that deteriorated her body enriched her spirit, which the....Continue Reading