Alloway News

They may put a monetary value on the engraved bricks honoring local soldiers and on the new dark granite monuments, but organizers of the Veterans Day walkway dedication Wednesday have only ever gauged the price of freedom in human lives.

John R. Barruzza of Vineland, son of Michael and Susan Barruzza, was selected for membership in the Delta Epsilon Iota Academic Honor Society at Rutgers University.

DEPTFORD TWP. Nearly an hour before the most famous man to ever wear a red suit made his appearance, 3-year-old Kirsten Flood stood waiting patiently behind the velvet rope, her eyes fixed on the festive throne where she would tell him her Christmas wishes.

The Alloway Township PTA is holding a Chinese Auction and Magic Show featuring "The Magic of Chad Juros" on Friday November 13th at the Alloway Township Elementary School located at 43 Cedar St., Alloway, NJ.

Many Salem County towns have set special hours for trick-or-treating this weekend.

The results are in for the 41st annual Alloway Halloween Parade which was held here on Sunday evening.

Berlin-based singer songwriter Chris Westfall will perform at Hope United Methodist Church in Voorhees next month to benefit a local program for teenagers.

Alloway was the place to be here Sunday night as the streets were lined up with people anticipating the start of the 41st annual Alloway Halloween Parade.

Chance of rain today 80 percent. Chance of rain tonight is 80 percent. And, still, Sunday is going to be sunny.

Prior to last year's Alloway Halloween Parade, "Zombies" from Salem County Dance and Cheer practiced their routine.

It began at a former hospital in downtown Salem in 1959 with nine students. Fifty years and hundreds of students later, Salem Community College's scientific glass technology program - now housed in a state-of-the-art, "green" facility in Alloway - enjoys the distinguished reputation of being the only program of its kind in the nation.

Can you tell Tony Guerrieri of Alloway is a Phillie fan? Guerrieri carves his pumpkin into a baseball during the Giant Pumpkin Carve at the Salem County Fairgrounds Saturday.

A sport utility vehicle rests on its roof along the Friesburg-Deerfield Road in Alloway Township Thursday after it overturned.

Township officials came together Wednesday night at the pump station here to mark the completion of the sewerage project as residents in the area can finally begin to connect to the system.

New Jersey has its very own leech, a rare species caught by a South Jersey family.

For Jennifer Coombs, heating her old farmhouse in Alloway became an expensive proposition last winter.

Six years ago, Bill Ott was minding his business, mowing his backyard in Alloway, Salem County, when he spied something black, about a foot long, and slimy in a ditch.

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A fire broke out here early Friday morning, destroying a house on Jericho Road. "Troopers responded to a structure fire at 2:37 a.m. Friday.

A foot-long leech that had lived undetected in Salem County for centuries before being discovered by a local couple five years ago, has been deemed a new species.