National Park News

After Mother Nature dumped several feet of snow on Gloucester County this winter, she returned this past weekend with a rainstorm that left downed wires, fallen branches and flooded basements.

Due to flooding of the Rockaway River caused by the heavy rains on Saturday and Sunday, the following streets in town have been closed: Changebridge Road between Stiles Lane and Woodmont Road - alternate route is Gathering Road - Konner Ave - Woodmont Road.

The Ladies Auxiliary of the Army & Navy Union, Garrison 52, 26 Riverview Ave., National Park, the oldest veteran organization in the U.S., will host its annual fish fry dinner Good Friday, April 2, from 3 to 7 p.m. Open to the public.

The Jefferson Elementary School PTA in Succasunna will host its second annual tricky tray 6 p.m. March 12 at Roxbury High School, 1 Bryant Drive, Succasunna.

Five men will be honored with the prestigious "Cornelius Award" by the members of the 1st United Methodist Church of National Park at their 9 a.m. Sunday service.

March 07, 2010, 3:00AM To the Editor: I would like to thank some of our elected officials - state Sen.

Ten million more people visited national parks last year than in 2008, but the numbers fell short of the all-time record for park visitation from 1987.

I'll make this as direct and short as possible. This Susquehanna-Roseland Project is not needed and it is definitely not wanted! We need our stewards of New Jersey's park and landscape vistas to please see through the choking smoke that PJM and PSE&G has surrounded themselves with.

NATIONAL PARK, N.J. -- After more than two decades of debate and lawsuits, on Monday an Army Corps of Engineers dredge contractor carved away the first loads of silt in a $310 million project to deepen the Delaware River shipping channel.

26. Officers pulled him over on Berkley Road around 4 p.m. He was released pending a hearing in municipal court.

NATIONAL PARK As the first bits of sediment and rock were being scraped off the bottom of the Delaware River 32 miles south of here Monday, three of New Jersey's top political leaders pledged their support to make sure deepening of the channel never comes to fruition.

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Gov. Chris Christie, Senate President Stephen Sweeney and U.S. Rep. Robert Andrews are expected to discuss the proposed deepening of the Delaware River shipping channel during a news conference on Monday in National Park.

February 2010 marks the most snow ever to fall in New Brunswick in one month. That's just the latest New Jersey record to be broken in this winter of seemingly endless snow.

Members of the Gloucester County Special Weapons and Tactics team fired a chemical compound into the home of Michael A. Wlison in the 200 block of Lakehurst Avenue Wednesday night.

The imposing book constitutes a little less than half the number of pages of Tolstoy's 1,400-page epic, "War and Peace." But, make no mistake about it, National Park native George J. Wren Jr.'s weighty 714-page "Jersey Troopers II: The Next 35 Years " is an exhaustive and impressive sequel to Sgt.

WOODBURY A $1.76 million contract was approved by the county freeholders Wednesday night to conduct revaluations of properties in five municipalities.

PSE&G and its Pennsylvania counterpart PPL need federal parkland permits to link the two sides of their 145-mile Susquehanna-Roseland circuit in time for brownouts predicted to roll down the line in 2012.

JEFFERSON - Opponents of the planned Susquehanna-Roseland power line upgrades decried the environmental and visual impacts the project would have on one of the northeast's best-known scenic landscapes, the Delaware Water Gap, at a hearing hosted by the National Park Service on Wednesday night.

The crowd pleaded with -- and even "put on notice" -- the National Park Service Wednesday night, at the very beginning of the agency's evaluation of the Susquehanna-Roseland power line and its plotted course through "everybody's backyard." The national park land -- the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, the Appalachian National Scenic ...