Girls Basketball Coach Karyn Pickard Calls It a Career at Kingsway

By Christian Lynch Two months ago, I reported on the success of the girls’ basketball team. They had a phenomenal season that included a pivotal win against undefeated Highland that won them a share of the Tri-County Conference Royal Division title. This was their third divisional title in a row, against the last undefeated team […]

Cookie Queens

The winner of The New Town Press’s first Cookie Themed Baking Contest was Mary Terlinski with her Caramel Cups. The taste testing and judging was held in the Botto’s Market Bakery with their own head baker, Catherine Botto, judging alongside Karen Morrison of Sweetsboro Pastry, and Angela Lucas representing The New Town Press. Shown here […]

Woolwich nurse takes on another adventure and serves at leper colony

By Jean Redstone The world’s tallest sea cliffs, nearly 2,000 feet high of sheer, vertical, volcanic rock, protect the landward side of the tiny, yet infamous village of Kalaupapa on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, home to a modern day leper colony. The rough, forbidding sea that crashes the peninsula where Kalaupapa (KAH-law-papa) clings to […]

May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month

LOGAN TWP. — Spring is finally here. Most people in south Jersey look forward to spending more time outdoors. However, it is imperative we use sun sense says Dr. Sandra E. Vause, the Medical Director at Vause Dermatology and Cosmetic Associates in Logan Township. The office has provided free skin cancer screenings for over 20 […]

MOBILE OFFICE VISIT AT SWEDESBORO PUBLIC LIBRARY

WEST DEPTFORD — Senate President Steve Sweeney, Assembly Deputy Speaker John Burzichelli, and Assemblyman Adam Taliaferro encourage Third Legislative District residents to visit a mobile office location at the Swedesboro Public Library, 1442 Kings Highway on Tuesday, May 10, from 12 p.m. to 3 p. m. “Our mobile offices are a chance to provide greater […]

Logan Township Crime Log

March 14: A Bridgeport resident reported a case of fraud via internet sales. He sold a Samsung Galaxy Tablet by way of an online transaction. After the buyer received the tablet, she indicated that it was not working properly and requested a refund. The seller processed the refund but never received the tablet back. Investigation […]

2 Local Veterans Honored

5WOODBIRY –Two local veterans were be among 25 honored by the Gloucester County Office of Veterans Affairs on April 13 at 7p.m. in the gymnasium of Bankbridge School. The local veterans honored were: Paul M. Turner of the United States Army.  He served during the Afghanistan War with the rank Sergeant.  Turner was born in […]

Grasso Girls Farm Market Wins Award

Grasso Girls Farm Market in Mullica Hill and West Deptford was presented with the Tony Russo Farmers Marketing Award by the New Jersey Agricultural Society on Feb. 10 at the New Jersey State Agricultural Convention in Atlantic City.  Mary Grasso-Shiles and her daughter, Erica Shiles, accepted the award for the family. She owns and operates […]

Hoffman DiMuzio Gift of the Heart-Kingsway Regional 2016 Scholarship Winners

HARRISON TWP. — The Kingsway Regional High School 2016 “Gift of the Heart” Hoffman DiMuzio Community Service Foundation recipients are Gabriella Bruno and Jeremy Otten. The law firm of Hoffman DiMuzio has allocated close to a half a million dollars to its “Gift of the Heart” Community Service Scholarship Foundation. Forty-one graduating seniors from Gloucester […]

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