Pomona News

Two motorists -- one from Ocean County and another from Camden County -- were seriously injured Friday afternoon in an intersection crash on Route 30, police reported today.

Current Cultural Arts Center exhibit The Galloway Cultural Arts Center exhibit "The Wonders of Water" will run until Saturday, July 11 at the Galloway Township branch of the Atlantic County Library behind the Municipal Complex on Jimmie Leeds Road.

I went to Ocean City, N.J., with an open mind, trying not to feel pressured by the thousands of people who recently voted it the best beach in New Jersey.

Friends of Forsythe benefit The Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge's Friends of Forsythe will hold its first fundraiser from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, June 25 at the Noyes Museum of Art on Lily Lake Road in Galloway Township.

I went to Ocean City with an open mind, trying not to feel pressured by the thousands of people who recently voted it the best beach in New Jersey. But could those constituents be trusted? Were they maritime scholars, or did they vote while buzzed on saltwater taffy?

To uncover the truth, I hit the beach and boardwalk of O.C. last week, noting the texture of the sand, the prevalence of pizza and the decibel level of laughing, splashing children. I needed to know if 4,258 people were right.

'The public says it prefers Ocean City to the others,' said Stewart Farrell, director of the Coastal Research Center at Richard Stockton College in Pomona, N.J., one of the organizers of the recently released survey. 'We'll see what they have to say in subsequent years.'

Angela Sparacino , 84, of Hammonton died June 9 at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center Mainland Campus in Pomona.

Rep. Frank A. LoBiondo, R-N.J. , issued the following news release: U.S. Representative Frank A. LoBiondo , the only New Jersey Representative on the House Aviation Subcommittee, today applauded the House passage of H.R. 915, the "Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2009." The legislation includes a number of provisions ...

Local art and historical benefactors will be honored Monday at the South Jersey Cultural Alliance's 14th annual Paul Aiken Encore Awards Dinner in Atlantic City.

I plan on bringing you, my dear reader, conversations with 10 women who are changing the world and rocking their fields.

Edward F. and Linda A. Kuchie of Woodbridge announced the engagement of their daughter, Jennifer Helen Kuchie, to Christopher Harrison, son of Lucille DeCrescenzi of Jersey City.

ATLANTIC CITY -- A former Atlantic City councilwoman has been indicted on charges she voted to sell city-owned land as part of a secret deal to acquire it for herself.

Alzheimer's Disease Support: This group for family members of people affected by Alzheimer's disease meets at 1 p.m. on the third Saturday of the month at Sunrise of Galloway, 46 W. Jimmie Leeds Road, Galloway.

Once or twice a year, Mary Paddock and her husband, Lynn, drive 700 miles from their home in Indiana, and pay $35 each to bed down on sleeping bags in unheated rooms - all for the opportunity to donate sweat equity, scraping and spackling the walls of this city's historic Chalfonte Hotel .

State auditors say a New Jersey college overpaid benefits and failed to oversee overtime for some employees.

A Coast Guard pilot says she did everything possible to rescue the crew of a fishing ship that sank off southern New Jersey last month.

NORTHFIELD The Camden Diocese is more than a year into its consolidation process aimed at strengthening the parishes that emerge after mergers.

WHAT: The National Acrobats of China WHEN:7:30 p.m. Tuesday WHERE:Stockton Performing Arts Center, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Jimmie Leeds Road, Pomona DETAILS: Features a performance by a dazzling company from China which includes martial arts, traditional music, acrobatics and illusion.

I bought a $100 gift certificate for friends at the Lenox warehouse in Pomona last December.

The Coast Guard scaled back its search today for four missing fishermen off the southern New Jersey coast as hopes faded that they would be found alive.

As fears mounted that the death toll would rise to six, rescuers continued to search the ocean darkness Tuesday night for the last four crew members of a fishing boat that sank off the New Jersey coast in an accident expected to rank among the worst commercial fishing disasters in the nation's history.