Blackwood News

Pomp and circumstance will be in the air this week in Gloucester Township with the three high schools in the Black Horse Pike Regional Sending District holding commencements exercises.

Glenn Gross and Ed Willis had been searching for an avenue to dive into the barbecue business when a "brownish-orange-colored, barn-looking building" along South Delsea Drive in Vineland, N.J., kept catching their eye.

A 22-year-old Voorhees woman was arrested for driving under the influence on June 2 after police stopped her for driving on the rims of her car at 5:30 a.m. Police said the woman slurred while attempting to give her credentials to police and failed field sobriety tests.

When a play has the name ''Urinetown: The Musical,'' it better have a strong appeal and something terrific to commend it.

Professional firefighters have a dispute with a volunteer firefighter chief. The Gloucester Township Education Association ceased all job actions on Friday.

Police rescued a dog from an apartment fire Saturday that displaced one man. Gloucester Township said an officer responding to a fire at the Lakeview Apartments in the township's Blackwood section around shortly before 11:15 a.m. rescued the animal while waiting for fire crews to arrive.

Did you miss any of the top stories in Collingswood this week? Here's a recap-click any headline to read more.

WOODBURY - A Superior Court jury has found Emmanuel Thomas, 42, of Blackwood guilty of eluding a police officer in connection with a March 17, 2010, incident.

A union of professional firefighters is calling for the chief of a volunteer firefighting company to step down.

Cases like that of "Puma," the dog whose owner was arrested by Collingswood Police for alleged animal cruelty are unfortunately not so uncommon in Collingswood, says Nancy Welsh, executive director of the Almost Home Animal Shelter in Pennsauken .

A 38-year-old Camden man charged with running a car his girlfriend was in off the road, then kidnapping and beating her, turned himself into Gloucester Township police on Tuesday.

Her 21-year-old son used to be a heroin addict. She said he probably started experimenting marijuana, around 16 or 17 and moved on to heroin.

Drayton Entertainment presents Tuesdays with Morrie, June 5 to June 22, at the Drayton Festival Theatre, 33 Wellington St., Drayton.

When Patty DiRenzo read about the heroin overdose cases in Camden that made headlines over the weekend, she thought, "Oh, no." Summer is here, and overdose cases in hospital emergency rooms tend to increase, according to statistics kept by the state Department of Health.

TONIGHT!!! at Skeeters Pub in Blackwood, New Jersey, Kings Boxing Promotions will host a press conference in conjunction with the big boxing event that will take place on Saturday June 15th at the Valley Forge Casino Resort.

Gloucester Township's assemblyman hears news on the now-dropped DWI charges, parents speak out against a school district hire and more in this month's top 10 most-read stories.

A two-vehicle accident involving an ambulance sent two people to the hospital Thursday evening.

New Jersey sent eight students to the Scripps National Spelling Bee this year, but none advanced to Thursday evening's final round.

New Jersey sent eight students to the Scripps National Spelling Bee this year, but none advanced to Thursday evening's final round.

On stage she's known as Speller No. 147 , but at home Nandi Cook-Creek is known as an eighth-grade spelling phenom who will represent her home state, and Glen Landing Middle School, at the Scripps National Spelling Bee.