Woodbury News

Bail was kept at $100,000 cash today for a Deptford Township man who an assistant Gloucester County prosecutor said was buying $35 images of child sexual abuse on-line from an Indiana supplier and was encouraging boys to share pictures of themselves through what they thought was the MySpace account of a young female pornography star.

There are now two Senior Welcome Line groups. One meets at the Brooklawn Diner. A brand new Group 2 Senior Welcome Line meeting has been formed and meets at Charlie Brown's Restaurant, , 111 N. Broad St., Woodbury.

The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission has selected firm partner, Louis Cappelli Jr., Esq., to lead the commission through the next fiscal year.

WOODBURY Officials say the city's downtown has been holding its own despite the recent economic downturn, with only a few businesses shuttering their doors and a few more opening up.

St. Patrick Church, Woodbury, will celebrate its 100th anniversary of the dedication of their present church building on July 18.

WOODBURY The city council has awarded a $62,000 contract for turf improvements to be performed at the city's soccer complex in Deptford Township.

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.

WOODBURY -- A Franklinville man was sentenced to three years in prison Thursday after pleading guilty to possessing digital images of children engaged in sexual acts.

Love, laughs and attempted murder will be portrayed in the Sketch Club Players' production of 'Murder at the Howard Johnson's' this month in Woodbury.

WOODBURY The historic Woodbury Country Club is facing dire straights, with Chapter 11 bankruptcy and a liquor license suspension both on the horizon, according to sources.

WOODBURY A defense motion to dismiss bias crime charges and downgrade assault charges against three men was denied Tuesday by Superior Court Judge M. Christine Allen-Jackson. Christopher L. Kurth, 21, Michael Esposito, 20, and Michael R. Laudenslager, 20, all of Sewell, are charged with assaulting a man at an Oct.

Matthew Ambrose is wanted by the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office for failure to appear in Superior Court, Woodbury, on June 17 for a pre-arraignment interview on narcotics charges.

The city's Art in the Street program kicks off Monday. The free outdoor art instruction program is for children ages 7 to 12.

Summertime brings warm, pleasant evenings and at Woodbury Mews Senior Living Community "Dancing Under the Stars" will take place on Friday, July 24, for the perfect summer evening.

WOODBURY As soon as the last Woodbury High School graduate took his seat on the school's football field, the first drop of rain came down followed by hundreds more.

A Gloucester County resident was charged Monday with trying to steal bicycles in the borough that day and on another occasion.

WOODBURY Tyre Bluford remained stoic Tuesday as the jury read the verdict finding him guilty of aggravated manslaughter in the death of Tawana "Lily" Gaines, who was shot multiple times in the back as she walked on the wooded path between two Glassboro housing complexes in 2007.

Wanted by the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office for failure to appear in Superior Court, Woodbury on May 27,for a pre-arraignment interview on a charge of violating a condition of a special sentence is Keith W. Burden, 32, of Williamstown.

What's in a name?, Shakespeare asked. "A lot," Deptford Township Mayor Paul Medany would say especially if that name is Deptford and it's divided by six different ZIP codes.

Brian Ziegler, 39, of Moorestown Township and Terri L. Egan, 32, of Evesham Township were charged June 9 with possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a school, possession of a controlled substance in a motor vehicle, failure to surrender a controlled substance to law enforcement, ...