Cumberland County News

The Ben Franklin Bridge will be closed to vehicular traffic from 6:30 to 7:45 a.m. tomorrow for the 37th annual American Cancer Society Bike-a-Thon, the Delaware River Port Authority said.

Another long-serving county employee announced his retirement this week. Ralph Brownlee, deputy county administrator and personnel director, said today that he gave notice to the county in January that he would be retiring by the end of the year.

The top man at the Republican National Committee is coming to VIneland on Monday to lend some weight to the gubernatorial candidacy of Chris Christie.

BRIDGETON -- A Millville resident and career corrections officer is the new second in command at the Cumberland County Jail.

The American Littoral Society may attempt to acquire Cohanzick Country Club and the Bridgeton Bluffs, an official with the non-profit said Tuesday.

* Taron Childers, 28, of South Avenue, Bridgeton, was arrested last Wednesday on two warrants issued out of Superior Court for failure to comply with nonsupport orders totaling $21,062.40. He was lodged in the county jail.

County and state Democratic Party officials on Monday announced plans to bus interested citizens to Rutgers University to see President Barack Obama speak at a rally supporting Gov.

The love affair started around March. That's when Linda Watson, of Bridgeton, set her eyes upon Father Time, a 15-year-old Chihuahua waiting for his forever home at the Cumberland County SPCA, in Vineland.

The Cumberland County 4-H Youth Development Program of Rutgers Cooperative Extension will offer four 4-H Summer Enrichment Programs this summer.

Cumberland County College has received approval from the New Jersey Board of Nursing to begin a licensed practical nursing program this fall.

It may not have been the 8,000 people predicted would cram Alden Field this year to celebrate the Fourth of July with plates of barbecue food and sack races, but no one seem to mind.

The first day of the Cumberland County Fair is Monday, bringing with it annual favorites including the demolition derby, live bands and numerous annual 4-H events.

Police have identified the woman stabbed Thursday evening on North 4th Street as 46-year-old Edna Garner.

Four Cumberland County municipalities are seeking $15.25 million in funding from the federal government to purchase and renovate abandoned properties.

Differences in politics and personality took a back seat Wednesday to what Freeholder Bill Whelan described as a "moral obligation" to preserve Cumberland County's natural resources.

Cumberland County Office on Aging and Disabled has moved its main offices from the County Administration Building to the first-floor wing of the Cumberland County Library at 800 E. Commerce St., in Bridgeton.

Police seized more than 670 pot plants from a North 10th Street home Wednesday afternoon, according to Millville Police Det.

VINELAND - A computer arts teacher at Delsea Regional High School in Franklin had an ongoing sexual relationship with a 17-year-old female student, police allege.

An elderly Atlantic County woman died at a Vineland hospital following a one-car crash on Sherman Avenue Wednesday morning.

The Cumberland 4-H Youth Development Program of Rutgers Cooperative Extension, a unit of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, is conducting a countywide food drive in partnership with the Cumberland County Cooperative Fair Association during the Cumberland County Fair from July 6-11. Residents of Cumberland County are asked to bring ...