Merchantville News

Though the weekend weather was frightful, but the temperatures show it was more delightful.

South Jersey moms will get a chance to expose their children to the arts and reignite their own creativity at the Mamapalooza program being held throughout the Camden County Library System this month.

The Rev. Paul Simpson Sr. of Keansburg protests gay marriage Monday as he walks up and down the aisle outside of a committee room at the State House Annex in Trenton while gay marriage supporters wait for the judiciary hearings to begin.

Malcolm Wells, the visionary Cherry Hill architect who died Nov. 27 at 83, was considered a crackpot in 1964 when he gave up lucrative commissions for the RCA Corp., and began advocating underground buildings with earth-friendly sod roofs.

Chef Mark Smith, owner of Collingswood's Tortilla Press, has reopened Tortilla Press Cantina on Maple Avenue in Pennsauken.

Delran's a nice place to live if you like kids' soccer, cars blurring past at a gazillion miles an hour and churches.

Camden and Merchantville will benefit from $25,000 in federal aid to upgrade recreational trails, state officials said Tuesday.

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MILLVILLE -- The city is developing its plan to attract more businesses to the Glasstown Arts District.

PLEASANTVILLE The cash for clunkers program may have been a shot in the arm for the auto industry, but Pete Quarelli, owner of Pistol Pete's Saloon and Steakhouse, has his own stimulus plan.

Among local elections Tuesday, voters ousted two incumbent councilmen in Stratford, narrowly returned a township committeeman in Waterford and split tickets between major-party candidates in Haddon Heights and Winslow.

Gloria M. and Walter H. Stridick of Mount Laurel celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary Oct.

The township council has come to terms on a contract with its caterer at Indian Spring Country Club.

Dorothy Rosen, 75, was walking to the supermarket last Monday when she saw an aerial lift crashing into the roof of a Center City apartment building and falling toward her.

Two South Jersey workers died Monday in separate accidents -- one killed in a fall from a crane, the other fatally injured when a bus fell while being repaired.

A mobile crane working on a church steeple toppled near Rittenhouse Square this afternoon, killing the crane operator and injuring a woman standing nearby.

Authorities say a construction worker, who co-workers said was from New Jersey, has died after falling 125 feet when a tall construction lift toppled over and struck a downtown Philadelphia apartment building.

By law, the city of Camden can shut off the water if customers don't pay their bills.

TRENTON - Chris Christie's campaign for governor was endorsed Tuesday by the New Jersey Environmental Federation, the first time the group has backed a Republican for statewide office in its 27 years of supporting candidates.

Salvatore and Tonya DiMaio of Riverton are praying for a miracle. They are asking for everyone else's prayers, too.