Quinton News

Living out in the most rural areas of the county has gotten a little more manageable, thanks to a free public transportation service implemented recently in the county that reaches far into rural territory.

All Items in Police Beat are based on official police reports of events. Reports are published by The Daily Journal as soon as they are made available.

According to New Jersey State Police at the Woodstown Barracks, burglaries are down in the county after the rash of burglaries that took place last December but Elmer Police Captain Patrick Bryan is concerned with the number of burglaries in the vicinity of the borough.

The new committal shelter at the Salem County Veterans Cemetery here was dedicated Monday in honor of a county resident who served his country in World War II and has been an unwavering champion of veterans causes since.

After starting work on a shared municipal courts feasibility study in 2008, the Salem County Board of Chosen Freeholders have now released the report to municipalities around the county.

Quinton Township and Metra Industries are moving closer to finishing the sewerage project in the township.

Both people airlifted after Sunday afternoon's bad accident on Route 49 here have been released from the hospital, according to police.

Two people, including a juvenile female, were airlifted to area hospitals after a bad accident here Sunday afternoon caused by a vehicle attempting to turn into the Hudock's Frozen Custard Stand parking lot off Route 49, authorities said.

Salem County voters went to the polls Tuesday to choose school board members and decide the fate of the budgets for the 2009-2010 school year proposed by their school districts.

Our Merciful Saviour Uniform Closet will hold its "open closet" day here next weekend to help families in need provide school uniforms for their children.

Special to the Sunbeam For 31 years, meal after meal, day after day, year after year, volunteers in Salem County have been touching lives with food and friendship one meal at a time.

Gov. Jon S. Corzine's proposed budget boosts direct school funding by $304 million for the 2009-2010 school year, providing 171 school districts with an average aid increase of 5 percent including five in Salem ...

When Michael O'Connor was a nuclear power plant worker living in Vermont, he used to make maple syrup as a hobby.

Gov. Jon S. Corzine announced the first round of grants available for non-Abbott school districts Friday, part of $1 billion dedicated to regular operating school districts in legislation that was signed into ...

Several Salem County parents were given the opportunity to meet with their childrens mentors last week, allowing them to get acquainted with the people who are helping to make a difference in the young students ...

The Woodstown Police Department is currently investigating a home burglary that happened this weekend on the 100 block of Woodstown-Alloway Road.

The planning board here approved a 25-acre land mining expansion of Continental Aggregates this week, reversing a decision the board made last year which has since been overturned in civil court.

The state Superior Court has ruled that Quinton's planning board must rethink what one judge called an "arbitrary and capricious" decision to deny a local mining company permission to expand.

The New Jersey Audubon Society is working to restore wetlands and natural habitats along the Alloways Creek here on the border of Quinton and Lower Alloways Creek townships on the Barr family farm.

Black ice is being blamed by New Jersey State Police here for nine accidents that occurred overnight between Sunday night and Monday morning in their coverage area.