Lawnside News

A stranger walking past the social hall of Congregation M'kor Shalom in Cherry Hill on a recent night would have observed a seemingly unexceptional scene.

A Nov. 5 story about Carmen Chapman's settlement of a discrimination lawsuit against Lawnside, incorrectly stated that she was first female police officer.

Sandra Turner-Barnes spent her early years in Lawnside, walking to the same schoolhouse her grandparents attended when they were young.

Several access ramps on Interstate 295 are to close this week as part of a highway reconstruction project.

The Lawnside Public School already shines, says superintendent Patricia Felton-Montgomery. However, she wants it to shine brighter, so the school has begun participating in the New Jersey Department of Education's Professional Learning Communities in School program.

A three-alarm fire ripped through a Cherry Hill condominium complex early this morning, seriously injuring two residents.

Two people were critically injured and 24 others displaced by an early morning fire today that swept through a residential complex in Cherry Hill, according to the Camden County chapter of the American Red Cross.

Lawnside Public School science teacher Marques Stanard knows his students might someday solve the environment's problems.

The borough and a local police officer have settled a discrimination suit for $350,000, court papers show.

If things go well Tuesday, South Jersey's Democrats could put several new faces in long-held legislative posts, install a new mayor in Camden, and set the stage for more changes in the near future.

Share + Oct 30, 2009 5:36 pm US/Eastern Reporting Walt Hunter The days of driving while on a cell phone in Philadelphia are numbered.

A continuing number of overnight vehicle break-ins in the Laurel Creek section have prompted a warning from the township's director of police, Harry E. Johnson.

The Department of Transportation is reporting the following roadway construction plans: US 30 eastbound near CR 537/Federal St.

FAIRFIELD - A West Caldwell man died after he was struck by a tractor-trailer while walking along the right-hand lane of eastbound Route 80 on Friday morning.

Mrs. Sylvia B. Grimm and Mr. Norman R. Grimm of Cherry Hill, NJ announce the engagement of their daughter, Devonn Anne Grimm to Timothy Erik Lindsay, son of Mrs.

Neatly kept split-level homes lie off Church Street in Moorestown's Farmdale neighborhood, a small housing development of 26 homes.

A once-powerful New Jersey lawmaker is due to report to a federal prison in West Virginia today.

A second Democratic state lawmaker from northern New Jersey has been charged with misconduct, leaving the state's two 31st District Assembly seats filled by indicted politicians -- a first even for a state where news of public corruption has become commonplace.

Former state Sen. Wayne Bryant, once a Trenton power broker who made hundreds of thousands of dollars in low-show public positions, will earn a maximum of 40 cents an hour when he is assigned to a job in federal prison.

Harry Rink shows off one of the artifacts of the Nothnagle Log House in Gibbstown, the nation's oldest structure.