Beverly News

I promised myself not to write about this, but then state Sen. Joseph Vitale and the New Jersey Italian American Legislative Caucus took an absurdity show and gave it a seal of reality.

Stephanie Brictson is striving for perfection and she's not shy about asking for it as she leads an intense, three-hour weekday rehearsal for The Jersey Sound Chorus.

A single mother with four children of her own was kind enough to open her home to her nephew, whose mother is an alcoholic.

Rachel Martin discovered her love of music and performing as a young girl while singing in the children's choir at her church.

Winning his battle against addiction, Michael Downes graduated from the Burlington County Drug Court on Wednesday ready to fight for his life.

A pedestrian stop led police to arrest a city man and confiscate a cache of items stolen from nearly 100 vehicles in five Burlington County communities over the past months.

All Items in Police Beat are based on official police reports of events. Reports are published by The Daily Journal as soon as they are made available.

A proud but desperate father of four young children is trying to make ends meet with only a temporary job.

Police have charged three township residents with distributing prescription drugs and are looking for a fourth suspect who is still at-large. Riverside residents Raymond Knight, 26, John Grzybowski, 24, and Amanda Horton, 19, was arrested Tuesday following an investigation into distribution of the prescription painkiller Oxycondone, police said.

PHOTOS >> >> >> >> >> >> >> National Adoption Day brings new moms and dads for 25 kids By MELISSA HAYES Audrey Rice has been a foster parent for more than 10 years, but yesterday she became an adoptive mom for the first time.

While the Burlington County Board of Freeholders has yet to decide whether it will use about $39 million in federal stimulus money, it is considering areas in the county that could benefit from an infusion of dollars.

Holiday house tours provides people with an insight on how home owners elegantly decorate their homes for the Holidays.

Property taxes increased in at least 28 of Burlington County's 40 municipalities this year, according to information obtained by the county Board of Taxation.

Even in tough economic times, Burlington County residents continue to support efforts to preserve what remains of the state's open space.

Efforts that have been long in the works to quiet the blaring train horns that sound each time a River Line train approaches a street crossing are moving forward.

Special question: Voters will be asked to approve changing the school board's form of government by creating a Type II school district.

The township has proven that the concept of a Neighborhood Watch, when appropriately organized, can be an extremely useful tool for residents and police alike.

Environmentalists and preservation advocates hope that streak continues on Nov. 3, when residents across the state have their say on a $400 million bond referendum to replenish the now-empty coffers of the Garden State Preservation Trust, which is the state's chief source of funding for open space, farmland and historic preservation.

A suit brought against the City of Beverly by the Beverly Board of Education was denied Tuesday after a hearing in Burlington County Superior Court.

The owner of a closed funeral home in Beverly pleaded guilty Monday to theft for spending prepaid funeral money of customers.