Woodbury Heights News

For the second time this year, Wade Hendrickson won the 25-Lap Big Block Modified feature last Saturday night at Bridgeport Speedway.

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

A yellow brick path winds around perennials, bushes and a newly planted tree in the new Epple Children's Garden at the Rotary Club of Woodbury's park on East Barber Avenue.

Delaware River Port Authority officials call the community meetings on the proposed Gloucester County passenger rail expansion open houses.

ERIKA LYNN GABEL , daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Gabel of Woodbury Heights, has completed her third year at Johnson and Wales University in Providence, R.I. She is majoring in Travel and Tourism Management and was on the Dean's List for all three trimesters.

Former Presbyterian missionary Brett McMichael always had faith that God would answer his prayers -- and those of his fellow parishioners at the First Presbyterian Church of Woodbury Heights -- for a life-saving kidney.

WOODBURY HEIGHTS A local artist who specializes in creating art that honors police officers and firefighters has turned his attention to the military and hopes to send signed printings of the painting he just completed to every family who lost a United States Marine in Iraq or Afghanistan.

An incumbent committeeman in Elk Township has filed for re-election as an independent.

WOODBURY HEIGHTS The Gateway Regional School District has named Dr. Shannon Whalen as superintendent of schools, replacing Dr.

Prior to the start of the racing season at Bridgeport Speedway, Richie Pratt Jr.

WOODBURY HEIGHTS Students and faculty planted an oak tree at Gateway Regional High School as a lasting honor to Joyce Stumpo, district superintendent, who is retiring this summer.

Woodbury Heights Elementary School students in Grades 1 - 6 who have earned "Terrific Kid" honors for the month of May have been announced.

Posted by South Jersey News Online vwilliams@sjnewsco.com May 27, 2009 8:18AM Sixty-five students from the Kaleidoscope Club at St.

As the Gloucester County Republican Executive Committee chairman, I would like to remind all Republican and unaffiliated voters that the primary is on June 2. I urge them to support all of the officially endorsed candidates running under the "Regular Organization Republican" slogan, headed by gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie, in Column F.

The unofficial start of summer is this weekend, as even more New Jerseyans than last year are expected to auto travel this Memorial Day.

Each of Gateway Regional High School's four sending district town councils have approved the school's revised budget, allowing the school to move forward in accepting bids for renovations for its track and football field.

Chad James, winner of the Big Block Modified race at Bridgeport Speedway Saturday night.

GREENWICH TWP. Recount results yielded the same as election night Wednesday, as the Gloucester County Board of Elections added up votes again for the Greenwich Township Board of Education seats.

By his recollection, Jeff Ahlum saw his first dirt race in 1966 at the young age of 3 at the Reading Fairgrounds.

During a driver's meeting prior to Saturday's racing at Bridgeport Speedway, defending Big Block Modified champion Mike Iles joked to his fellow competitors that he is apologizing beforehand in case he accidentally bumps anyone during the 2009 season.