Palmyra News

The Burlington County Health Department is continuing its H1N1 vaccination program with a clinic today for those in special priority groups.

After a lengthy search and despite pending results of a shared-services study with two neighboring towns, the Borough Council has appointed a police chief.

A possible merger of the Cinnaminson, Palmyra and Riverton police departments appears to be a dead issue.

Camden County will conduct a free fall shredding event from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday in the parking lot at the Woodcrest station of the PATCO Hi-Speedline in Cherry Hill.

The Tacony-Palmyra Bridge becomes a living laboratory for engineering students. gmattar@phillyBurbs.com609-871-8036PALMYRA - Drexel University civil engineering students Jaclyn Raciti, Evan Richter and Kevin Njinga cut class Friday to walk across and beneath the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge.About two dozen of their sophomore classmates joined them.They ...

Four people were jailed on drug charges after raids on three houses. The raids occurred Thursday at residences on West Fifth Street with borough police being assisted by Burlington City, Willingboro and Cherry Hill tactical teams, police said Friday.

District Judge Lee Lehman in Palmyra has decided to retire Jan. 3 after 30 years on the bench.

Although the Cooper River runs through Pennsauken and the Delaware River borders the township, there is no ocean.

Visitors who go to offices at the Burlington County Human Services Building often are experiencing hardships and go there seeking job, senior citizen or homeless assistance.

Burlington County's school districts reported a 10 percent drop in incidents of violence, vandalism, weapons and substance abuse during the 2007-08 academic year, according to an annual report from the New Jersey Department of Education.

A historical society director looks to the future. Historian Lisa Fox Pfeiffer looks as much to the future as the past in her job as executive director of the Burlington County Historical Society.

Police arrested a fugitive wanted by Philadelphia officials on an aggravated assault charge.

Educator Robert M. Oberholser would be proud. The former school superintendent and first president of the Burlington County Retirees' Education Association died in 1994 at the age of 102.

Two local firefighters will be joining a parade of pink in the City of Brotherly Love this weekend.

The Burlington County Bridge Commission announced Wednesday that the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge will be transformed into the first "living laboratory" for engineering students from Rowan University and other local colleges as part of two federal grants awarded to Drexel University in the amount of $900,000. This unprecedented, cutting-edge educational ...

" While blasting incumbent Trenton politicians Herb Conaway and Jack Conners for their now legendary penchant for inaction on important issues affecting their constituents, GOP Assembly challengers Leah Arter and Harry Adams today demanded that the NJ Department of Environmental Protection make public the official list of local sites slated to ...

Like many young boys, Scott Santos loved cars while he was growing up in Medford.

Veterans looking to transition from the war zone to the classroom will get a helping hand.

Palmyra Borough Council on Tuesday night adopted a monthly workshop model to conduct routine business, eliminating its four-committees system.

Based in Costa Mesa, Calif., the company has an office in Philadelphia.The push into the northeastern section of the county is already happening, Norris said in an interview Friday.Norris, a native of Palmyra who lives in Chester County, Pa., said that despite the hardships for housing in the past year, "Burlington County is positioned to recover ...