Carneys Point News

CARNEYS POINT TWP. - The Carneys Point Fire and Rescue Co. will hold a takeout barbecued ribs dinner Saturday, June 2. Pickup for the dinner takes place at the fire hall, 258 D St., Carneys Point, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Tickets are $15 each.

This sweet girl is Addy. She is almost two years old and is one of the nicest dogs at the Salem County Humane Society shelter in Carneys Point.

Atlantic City Electric crews on the scene of where a cross arm broke on a transmission pole and caused a brief, widespread power outage.

Staff from Pointe Buick GMC recently presented bikes to Tyiaja Horace of Penns Grove and Rasheem Shinn of Carneys Point.

PENNSVILLE TWP. - Dressed in red, white and blue and holding American flags and patriotic banners, residents lined Broadway Saturday morning to watch the annual Pennsville Memorial Day Parade.

CARNEYS POINT TWP. - Fire and rescue crews are on the scene of a collision between a bus and a tractor-trailer in the southbound lanes of the New Jersey Turnpike.

CARNEYS POINT TWP. - Salem Community College held its 40th annual Commencement ceremony Wednesday evening the DuPont Field House in Davidow Hall.

CARNEYS POINT TWP. - Police Explorer Post No. 7008 will meet, 6:30 p.m., Monday.

Volunteers from the Memorial Hospital of Salem County were recently treated to a four-course lunch at the Washington Club in Carneys Point as part of National Volunteer Week.

Representatives from South Jersey Gas Co. will go out to the community and meet with residents one-on-one to discuss extending natural gas lines to homes in the township.

Carneys Point Fire Dept. and Rescue Squad responded at 4:05 p.m. Wednesday to Shell Road or a building fire and remained in service for 30 minutes.

Hazardous materials teams responded to a truck stop in Carneys Point Tuesday morning after material spilled from a truck.

Scott Green took over as the new executive director of the Delaware River and Bay Authority on April 2. The DRBA operates the Delaware Memorial Bridge, Cape May-Lewes Ferry, Three Forts Ferry, five regional airports and the DRBA Salem Business Centre in Carneys Point.

A large community yard sale is under way now today at 7 a.m. at Habitat for Humanity of Salem County's Restore, 416 S. Pennsville-Auburn Rd.

The Pledger House on the grounds of Mannington Mills in Mannington Township will be open to the public today during the "Open House in Fenwick's Colony" house tour from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Every Saturday on its editorial page, Today's Sunbeam cheers those who make our area a better place in which to live and jeers those whose actions merit derision.

The Salem Community College Oak Singers, under the direction of music director and founder Charles Musser, will present their annual Spring Concert today and Sunday.

Hundreds filled the Corpus Christi Parish Hall here in Carneys Point today to lift their hearts up to God and to pray for a better future during the National Day of Prayer Breakfast.

The Christie Administration announced that about $16 million in Clean Communities grants will be awarded to municipalities and counties in New Jersey to fund litter cleanup efforts that improve communities and roadsides.