National Park News

Dawn M. Motsinger is wanted by the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office for failure to appear in Superior Court, Woodbury on June 24, 2009 for a status conference hearing on theft.

A 5K run on July 19 will benefit the Woodbury Food Bank in several ways. Runners are being asked to bring non-perishable food items to help the hungry in the area.

Tom Winslow, of Rosell NJ, the park ranger education specialist at the Ford Mansion, Morristown National Park, reads aloud the Declaration of Independence at a July 4 celebration at the park .

Fine. Go ahead. Consider New Jersey the dumping ground for New York. But do you also have to keep the Statue of Liberty at just that angle, giving New Jersey a perpetual view of the lady's backside? That was the question posed by Lee Dawson, a 50-year-old former Elizabeth resident who now calls Alabama home and who visited Lady Liberty earlier this ...

A span of Red Bank Avenue stretching about a mile between Tatum Road and Crown Point Road will undergo resurfacing scheduled to begin on - or around - July 6. Minor delays should be expected in the area as traffic will need to use alternating lanes.

After almost 10 years of observing the National Park Service's actions in the procurement proceedings of historic buildings at Fort Hancock at Sandy Hook, I believed that the park service was incapable of sinking any lower, ethically and legally.

Monday, June 29, 2009 By DJ McAneny sjnjog2@sjnewsco.com NATIONAL PARK As Summer cast off the overcast that had been crowding the skies for much too long Sunday and shifted into high gear, residents of National Park were treated to an early July 4 celebration following a 5k fundraiser.

Have something newsworthy that doesn't make the crime blotter? E-mail your ideas to lmurray@sjnewsco.com. Good news for men and women who are looking to trade their combat fatigues for a police uniform Washington Township Police are expanding their employment requirements to include specifically those with military service.

The senior class of Gateway Regional High School took to the football field Tuesday to mark a special moment in time.

NATIONAL PARK The borough hopes to soon construct a new well and water treatment plant, part of a $3.7 million project that will improve the borough's water system.

Lilies, lace and other lovely attractions will be present at the annual Ann Whitall Flower Show and Heritage Day in National Park on June 28.

Letter writers have asked why Most Holy Redeemer in Westville Grove is merging with St.

Six Gloucester County towns will be receiving close to $350,000 in additional federal stimulus funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, county officials announced Thursday.

The federal government backtracked today and decided not to seize the western Pennsylvania property needed to build a Flight 93 memorial, saying instead it would renew negotiations with landowners.

BAYONNE, N.J. - An animal rights group wants to use a New Jersey lighthouse and two others in Michigan to publicize what it says are the horrors of killing fish for food and sport.

Incumbents Steven Carr and Kim Robinson were unopposed for the open Democratic nominations to council.

Proposals will soon be solicited from developers interested in this one-square-mile borough's only vacant piece of land: The now-defunct Robert Hawthorne Sanitary Landfill.

Cheerleading signups for the National Park A. C.A. Gators willl be held at the National Park A. C. A. clubhouse located at the ballfield on Hessian Avenue.

Friends of Vineland Public Library will sponsor a trip to Baltimore Inner Harbor on June 6, opportunity to visit the National Aquarium, Maryland Science Center or take a harbor cruise.

Four hikers were taken to an area hospital after a close encounter with lightning along the Appalachian Trail in northwestern New Jersey.