Glassboro News

Passenger trains could be running again between Camden and Glassboro by 2019, if someone comes up with $1.6 billion and the current construction schedule doesn't slip.

Jason Dolby, of Glassboro's Highway Department, right, talks with students at J. Harvey Rodgers Elementary School about recycling trucks as Glassboro Highway Superintendent Russell Clark looks on.

Patti Sheehy remembers thinking, this story has everything : Bravery, romance, suspense, and an evocative historical backdrop.

WOODBURY - Residents offered feedback on a proposed effort to bring a passenger light rail line connecting Glassboro and Camden Monday, weighing the benefits of expanded public transportation with the potential costs.

GLASSBORO - A 39-year-old Glassboro woman was injured when two cars collided on Ellis Street near Higgins Drive Sunday.

A working example of an existing multi-use rail-with-trail in New Jersey is the Traction Line in Morris County.

Members of Rowan University's 88th undergraduate class received their diplomas during the school's commencement ceremony Friday in Glassboro.

GLASSBORO - The borough unanimously approved the appropriation of more than $800,000 worth of capital improvement funds on Tuesday, which will go toward projects that keep the borough running efficiently and cleanly.

Stephen Sweeney took the lectern Friday morning, looked out at a sea of undergraduates dressed in the robes he had never gotten to wear, and addressed the university he had not attended but has had a continuing hand in shaping.

Kevin Trester, of Monroe Township in Middlesex County, points to his family in thanks during the Rowan University Undergraduate Commencement in Glassboro, Friday, May 17, 2013.

Mercedes S. Freeman, 23, of the Hollybush Gardens Apartments, allegedly hit one officer in the face with her fist and kicked a second officer, police said.

In Wading River closed due to accident on NY Rt-25a/Suffolk Cnty/Eastern Section WB at Wading River Rd/Randall Rd and before CR-46/William Floyd Pky in Shoreham.

A self-described "homefree" hitchhiker, who became a viral sensation on the Internet in February and was wanted for the bludgeoning death of a New Jersey attorney he allegedly met in Times Square this week, was arrested at a Center City bus depot Thursday evening.

CLARK, NJ -- Police are on the hunt for an Internet celebrity identified as the suspect in the homicide of Clark resident Joseph Galfy, Jr., 73.

Walter M. Williams Jr., 23, of Giles Street, was arrested on a failure to appear warrant out of Bridgeton Municipal Court and was charged with defiant trespassing.

WINSLOW TWP. - A Berlin man was killed in a head-on crash early Wednesday morning on Williamstown Road, police said.

GLASSBORO - The borough adopted its 2014 municipal budget at Tuesday night's council meeting which will ask taxpayers to pay for a $12,335,000 tax levy next year, an increase of approximately $450,000 compare to last year's budget.

STORYTIME IS HELD at the Newfield Public Library for preschoolers each Tuesday morning.

April Lee, from Williamstown, stands in her son's, Alfred "Will" Lee III, bedroom that is decorated in his memory, Monday, May 13, 2013.

4, 2012. a€¢ William B. Underwood IV, 26, of Haddon Township, for criminal mischief; conspiracy/criminal mischief by damaging property; and conspiracy/theft by unlawful taking in Glassboro on Nov.