Pemberton News

School is out and so are kids on bicycles. The NJBikeSchool program is trying to make sure they stay safe while they ride.

At 64 square miles in size, there's no shortage of land in this rural township. But local officials and planners are quick to point out that roughly 90 percent of the township's territory is within the environmentally sensitive Pinelands making it subject to stringent restrictions on what may be built there.

A 22-year-old former standout athlete who recently was sentenced to 20 years in prison for a homicide in Camden pleaded guilty Monday to weapons offenses for incidents in Pemberton Township in 2007.

Traffic circles are a notorious part of life in New Jersey. One that -- as almost any driver will admit -- causes frustration, confusion, delays and fender benders at literally every turn, nearly every day.

Police have charged a 15-year-old boy in connection with 13 vehicle burglaries in the township last month.

Residents will be paying close attention to the aftermath of losing their school district due to state legislation which calls for the closure of all nonoperating school districts.

Corzine signed a law Tuesday that eliminates the district and merges it with neighboring Pemberton Township.

The Deborah Hospital Foundation is honoring former U.S. Rep. Jim Saxton of Mount Holly during its annual Red Tie Gala, to be held Nov.

Matt Ryerson/The Hawk Eye Allyson Panton, 14, from Presbyterian Church of Westfield, N.J., hacks at some weeds Friday at Steve Eaton's residence in Gulfport.

Anne Miller took one look at her medal and broke into an enormous smile as she held it over her heart.

Burlington County government officials are reinstating bus service for food shopping and other personal trips for seniors and the disabled.

The Village of Pemberton spent more than its actual revenue in 2008, according to the Annual General Report released June 9. The report, distributed to community members before an Annual General Meeting on the same day, indicates that the village took in $3,803,996 in revenue in 2008 but put $3,807,213 into expenditures such as public works as well ...

A Trenton man on trial for murder took the stand Wednesday in his own defense, telling the jury he went to the victim's Pemberton Township house to buy drugs and was ambushed by three masked men.

" Norman Gibbs is one step closer to becoming an underwater welder. "I'm glad to be here because a lot of people told me I wouldn't be here and I proved them wrong," the Palmyra resident said.

A Burlington City woman described in Superior Court Tuesday how she watched the father of her baby shoot and kill her boyfriend and then turn the gun on her outside her Washington Avenue home in 2007.

In overtaxed New Jersey, towns should be able to cut their school taxes when they have that rare chance.

Township residents know they have to pay their taxes. Now they know they can pay them in a variety of ways.

Five students had minor injuries when a bus hit a guardrail here Wednesday, police said.

Three Phila-delphia women were charged Sunday with shoplifting from the Gymboree on Route 73 and other stores in the township.

Two murder trials are under way this week in the Superior Court of Burlington County.