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The Lower Township Council meets Monday evening and is expected to award a contract to Ocean First Bank for banking services in the community.  The Township Council may also make appointments to the Historic Preservation Commission and to the Recreation Advisory Board.  Monday’s meeting begins at 7:00pm.

Stone Harbor will get a new member of Council on Tuesday.  Robert Levins will be sworn in to a Council seat during the regular meeting on Tuesday afternoon.  Both Levins and incumbent Raymond Parzych were successful in this month’s election, running unopposed.

Middle Township may soon the home of the latest mass care shelter in the event of an emergency evacuation.  The Township Committee will vote Monday on a resolution that would establish a new shelter at the Martin Luther King Center; it would be available to all residents of the County.

A Millville man has been sentenced to serve 25 years in prison for attempted murder.  Imani Priester was in court on Thursday and pleaded guilty to shooting a man four times on Oak Street in the city last August.  Priester pleaded guilty to a first degree attempted murder charge.

The Social Security office in Egg Harbor Township is again open for business following last week’s accident that resulted in a car plowing into the building.  Police said about 20 people suffered injuries when the Nissan tried to park and instead drove into the building.  The office is located on …

A New Jersey State trooper was struck by a car and injured on the New Jersey Turnpike in Burlington County on Friday.  The trooper was awake and alert at Cooper University Health Care after the accident.  He suffered a leg injury while he was investigating another accident.

A 16 year old boy has been charged in connection with Thursday evening’s fatal shooting of a man in Ventnor.  61 year old Sunil Edla was shot and killed outside of his apartment on Nashville Avenue.  The victim was leaving for work when he was killed.  The teen drove off …

Authorities continue to investigate a fatal shooting in Ventnor Thursday night.  A man was shot to death near Nashville Avenue in the community, but details are still very sketchy.  Police have reportedly made a presence in the neighborhood today to help calm fears of any residents.

A doctor from Mullica Hill was killed Thursday during a traffic accident that was caused by snow and treacherous driving conditions.  52 year old Dr. Michael Robinson lost his life in an accident in Mantua Township.  This is one of two reported traffic accidents resulting from Thursday’s wintry weather in …

Former governor Chris Christie is among those highly critical of the winter storm response in northern New Jersey.  Christie blasted Governor Phil Murphy, saying it took him five hours to travel from Piscataway to Mendham in the storm, which put several inches of snow on the ground in the northern …