Swedesboro News

Join the monthly meeting of the Swedesboro-Woolwich Historical Society. A special speaker, Bennett Carlton, will be featured, speaking on Lincoln's Assassination.

With substantial amounts of snow in the forecast, road crews and shoppers alike have been making the required preparations for this weekend's storm.

PHILADELPHIA -- Jonathan Jenkins of Vineland, a package car driver for UPS, was recently recognized by the company for completing 25 years without an accident.

This year, the Boy Scouts of America celebrate 100 years of scouting with celebrations across the country.

Dr. Jaime Joaquin Portalatin, 79, of Vineland died Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. He was the beloved husband of Victoria A. Portalatin; father of Jaime J. Portalatin of Swedesboro, Eugenio Portalatin of Vineland, Maria Victoria Vinci of Franklin Lakes and Diana Davies of Oneota, N.Y.; and grandfather of five.

These students at Kingsway Regional High School have been named "Seniors of the Month" for November: Elissa Everton , daughter of James and Cynthia Everton of Swedesboro.

The proliferation of high-end denim brought with it two fashion plagues: the muffin top and its first cousin, plumber's pant.

The Memorial Hospital of Salem County is a 140-bed community hospital that has been caring for the community since 1919.

Walt Disney said, "I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing, that it was all started by a mouse." But in the case of Botto's Italian Line Restaurant, it was all started with a sausage.

A tree fell from Joe Martorano's property onto a neighbor's front yard and part of Woodand Avenue off Cooper Street in Woodbury.

Faced with a deficit and declining enrollment, the last Catholic school in Salem County, N.J. - which draws heavily from Gloucester County - will close at the end of the academic year.

CARNEYS POINT TWP. Bishop Guilfoyle Regional Catholic School here will close its doors at the end of this school year, bringing an end to Catholic school education in Salem County and leaving students in Swedesboro and Woolwich Township looking for a new school.

SWEDESBORO As the nation recognized Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, residents of Swedesboro and Woolwich Township paid special tribute to the holiday by honoring the historically-rich soil in their own backyards.

Crews from both Gloucester and Salem counties responded to a fire in the borough Tuesday morning.

Firefighters from as far away as Woodbury have been called out to help battle a house fire in the 500 block of 2nd Street in Swedesboro.

Unionized postal workers have gone to federal court in an attempt to block the planned shutdown of a regional mail transfer facility just outside Swedesboro, NJ.

Nancy S. Genetti, 87, of Vineland died Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009, at the South Jersey Healthcare Regional Medical Center.

As the clock ticks down to midnight on Dec. 31, many people will be holding a flute of Champagne ready to welcome 2010.

Another 365 days have passed here in Gloucester County, and our press keeps rolling out the news as it has every year since 1897, when we opened for business as the Woodbury Daily Times, A lot has changed since the days when this paper mostly covered events that happened in the county seat.

With the new year will come a new way of handling tax assessments in Gloucester County.