• Boy who rescued cousin feted
MILLVILLE - A 13-year-old boy who rescued his cousin from drowning in May will be honored at a press conference at Lakeside Middle School Thursday.

• Bryant's guilt pinnacle of Christie's term
By GEOFF MULVIHILL

• Downe is getting property valuations
By JEAN JONES

• Jolly Holly run set Nov. 28
From staff reports

• Kell waits for word with job
BRIDGETON - The No. 1 contender for the job of Cumberland County prosecutor was appointed Monday night to serve as Bridgeton's part-time municipal prosecutor.

• Park Drive eyed
UPPER DEERFIELD TWP. - In response to complaints of drivers riding the shoulder of Park Drive, township Mayor and Freeholder Doug Rainear wants to remind motorists that doing so is illegal and dangerous.

• Pit bull ring in Penns Grove
PENNS GROVE - Additional charges have been filed against three people who allegedly operated a pit bull fighting ring at a house on Lanning Avenue here, authorities said.

• POLICE BLOTTER
MILLVILLE

• Sacred's all Heart
EWING - Matt Bik scored the game's only goal with 5 minutes, 46 seconds left and the Sacred Heart High School boys soccer team captured the program's first NJSIAA Non-Public B state championship with a 1-0 win over Gil St. Bernards Tuesday at the College of New Jersey.

• Solar company green to go
VINELAND - A North Jersey-based developer of solar energy technology has express interest in opening a factory that will produce solar panels within the city.

• Thomas sworn in at CCC
VINELAND - Cumberland County College trustees appointed Charles Thomas as chairman of the college trustee board at Tuesday night's reorganization meeting.

• $2.13M housing deal not dead yet
BRIDGETON - Solicitor Theodore Baker informed council that the city's $2.135 million regional contribution agreement (RCA) with Galloway Township is not dead, contrary to what many believed.

• Audit: Where's $6,395?
MILLVILLE - The city police department has opened an investigation into complaints that more than $6,000 in payments made by parents to the city pre-school "wraparound" program has gone missing.

• Dump truck rear-ends van
By JEAN JONES

• Gardens relocation can start
MILLVILLE - The state has approved the city's Workable Relocation Assistance Plan (WRAP) in regard to moving the residents out of Millville Gardens in anticipation of the West Foundry Street apartment's demolition.

• Illegal beer distribution operation is capped
BRIDGETON - Police shut down an illegal beer distribution operation being run out of two Milltown section homes Friday evening.

• Lav-pass check after threats
MILLVILLE - Police and school district officials are investigating a pair of bomb threats at Millville Senior High School last week, both of which saw students evacuated and the school manually searched for explosives.

• Library closing time again
BRIDGETON - City officials are continuing discussions that could lead to the shuttering of the municipal library.

• Liston saves vets day
BRIDGETON - There will be a Veterans Day ceremony in the city in 2009.

• Police Blotter
BRIDGETON

• Rainear's replacement will be picked Saturday
VINELAND - Cumberland County Democrats may choose someone as soon as this weekend to serve the remaining two years of Doug Rainear's term on the Cumberland County freeholder board, according to the county party chairman.

• Tattoo anger leads to double stabbing
VINELAND - Police have charged a Bridgeton man with stabbing two people, one of them a minor, outside their North West Avenue home shortly before 8 p.m. Saturday.

• Three juveniles receive sentences
From staff reports

• Tracks need approval
MILLVILLE - Race track officials at the New Jersey Motorsports Park will have to go before the planning board, and gain the body's approval before plans to build three dirt bike courses can go forward.

• Volunteers offer to help restore CRHS ballfields
UPPER DEERFIELD TWP. - Cumberland Regional High School might see its ballfields get a makeover a lot sooner than expected.

• 2007 snub gone
VINELAND - A member of the Cumberland County College trustee board who felt he was snubbed when the board failed to promote him to vice chairman in 2007 has been nominated to be chairman this year.

• 3rd District receives municipal grants for roadway improvements
From staff reports

• House can't be sold
By JEAN JONES

• Listen up, kids!
BRIDGETON - For kids on Cumberland County streets, drugs and gangs can seem to be a ticket to the good life.

• Police continue search for missing NJ hunter
PAULSBORO - The search for a duck hunter who fell into Mantua Creek after his boat overturned has turned into a "recovery operation," a spokesman for the U.S. Coast Guard said Sunday.

• Sutton photos in Burton display
BRIDGETON - It can be easy for a community to forget its roots, its past and the things that once beckoned its founders to settle where they did.

• Park Drive is dangerous for residents
UPPER DEERFIELD TWP - Residents here say the shoulder of Park Drive is a dangerous place to be.

• Turning trash into energy
DEERFIELD TWP. - In the original "Back to the Future" movie, Doc Brown uses plutonium to power his time-traveling DeLorean.

• Van Hook: Center city needs to mix it up
MILLVILLE - While Millville First, a group which has criticized the current city commission for its pursuit of an "all-arts-district" approach to High Street, has yet to formerly meet to discuss the recently presented study on downtown revitalization, it's president, former Mayor Emil Van Hook, said the report contained "nothing very surprising."

• Colonial Bank fills Lawrence
By JEAN JONES

• CRHS baseball fields suffer
UPPER DEERFIELD TWP - Parents vented frustration at Thursday night's board of education meeting for the Cumberland Regional School District over the condition of high school baseball fields.

• Doherty struck by SUV
BRIDGETON - Local attorney William Doherty Jr. was struck by a pickup truck in the parking lot behind the Hillcrest Tavern and Coach Room Thursday evening.

• Go, Wells Fargo!
MILLVILLE - The purchase of Wachovia Corporation, which had been teetering on collapse, by Wells Fargo will not affect the flow of funding from the Wachovia Foundation to Affordable Homes of Millville Ecumenical (AHOME), or so officials hope.

• GPS burglars choice
VINELAND - Police have reported 30 vehicle break-ins over the past month, and GPS navigators have made up the majority of the stolen items.

• Jobless ranks climb
By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER

• Man overboard is saved
DOWNE TWP. - No injuries were reported after the captain of a charter boat fell overboard Thursday afternoon into the Delaware Bay.

• Man's neck cut with box-cutter in domestic
MILLVILLE - An East Oak Street woman was charged on Wednesday with aggravated assault and weapons offices after she cut a man's neck with a box-cutter during a domestic dispute, according to police.

• Third county courtroom in works
BRIDGETON - A third criminal courtroom at the Cumberland County Courthouse is on its way.

• Bailout shifts gears
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER

• Breakdown of voting in county
By MATT DUNN

• Bridgeton gets $343,000 from UEZ for cops
From staff reports

• Coast Guard rescues stranded boat
By JEAN JONES

• Fill out Form 3575, Shiloh
SHILOH - Local postmaster Joseph Schoenewald said he has not been keeping mail from residents here arbitrarily.

• Good, bad and the ugly
MILLVILLE - Business owners and city officials alike sat with their eyes riveted to a slide show and ears rapt in attention to the pair of speakers who unveiled the JGSC Group's study of downtown and its potential Wednesday night.

• Grand Jury indictments
From staff reports

• Is Amish market coming to Hopewell?
HOPEWELL TWP. -- An Amish family market may be in the township's future.

• Police Blotter
MILLVILLE

• Track noise too much to take
By JEAN JONES

• Arson suspected in M.R. fire
MAURICE RIVER TWP. - Firefighters Monday night battled flames at a structure fire in the woods off Route 47, in Port Elizabeth - the third in what Fire Chief Jud Moore said appears to be a string of connected arsons in the township.

• Austino wants cleared complaints expunged
VINELAND - Cumberland County's sheriff-elect has filed a motion with the Superior Court to have two criminal complaints filed against him between 1993 and 2005 expunged from his permanent record.

• Circuit City problems won't close Millville
MILLVILLE - Despite Circuit City's announcement on Monday that the company has filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11, the big-box chain's Millville location will remain open.

• Lawrence Twp. doing much better
By JEAN JONES

• Police Blotter
BRIDGETON

• State waiting for Obama to take office
From those advocating for health care reform to others pushing alternative energy production, organizations in New Jersey are waiting, rather impatiently, for President-elect Barack Obama to begin work in the Oval Office.

• Students hang on vets tales
BRIDGETON - The halls of Quarter Mile Lane School are decked with tributes to veterans.

• Study: Millville can support 18 fine eateries
MILLVILLE - The demand for services in the city's downtown area far exceeds its supply, with Millville missing out on $482 million for each year it doesn't capture that demand, accofding to a study.

• Two uncooperative in Bridgeton brawl
BRIDGETON - Two city residents were hospitalized early Tuesday morning following a brawl at Irving Avenue and Walnut Street.

• Whoops! CCTEC meeting Dec. 1
DEERFIELD TWP. - Cumberland County Technical Education Center Superintendent Darlene Barber clarified a statement she made Monday encouraging the public to participate in a meeting next month that could help determine the fate of the county technical school.

• 17-year-old critical after Millville crash
MILLVILLE - A 17-year-old Millville girl is in "extremely critical condition" following a two-vehicle accident on Sunday at the intersection of Broad Street and Wade Boulevard, according to police.

• 532-unit project dead
MILLVILLE - After more than a year of delays and postponements, it looks as though the plan to build 532 homes near Union Lake will not go forward - again.

• Bridgeton Blotter
BRIDGETON

• CCTEC seeks plan
DEERFIELD TWP. - The president of the Cumberland County Technical Education Center board of education wants the public to attend a Dec. 9 meeting which could help determine the future of the school's full-time high school program.

• Franckle new undersheriff
MAURICE RIVER TWP. - Norm Franckle will be joining the Cumberland County Sheriff's Department in January as undersheriff.

• Gunshots lead to arrests
BRIDGETON - Police recovered two guns and charged a total of six people with illegally possessing them in two unrelated incidents Friday and Sunday.

• Holdup at gunpoint solved
VINELAND - Police charged two city residents with armed robbery and multiple weapons offenses after they allegedly stole a cell phone and clothing from two men while holding them at gunpoint Saturday night.

• N.C. car set on fire
From staff reports

• Son grabbed, traded for purse in snatching
BRIDGETON - Police have charged one teen and are seeking two suspects in connection with a robbery on Penn Street Sunday morning in which the robbers held a woman's young son as they stole her purse from her.

• Taylor received 175 votes
By JEAN JONES

• Work crew damages 2nd line
From staff reports

• Worker falls from pole
MILLVILLE - A Verizon employee escaped major injury on Monday, after he fell from a utility pole on Church Street.

• Downe Academy students learn trade
By JEAN JONES

• Main Street seeking volunteers
BRIDGETON - The Bridgeton Main Street Association is looking to hit the ground running at the beginning of the new year.

• Millville focusing on Green Christmas
MILLVILLE - The Greater Millville Chamber of Commerce has set the date of Nov. 14 as the deadline for float entries for their annual downtown Christmas parade.

• Purchasing agent bill fought
Small towns may soon find themselves battling another state mandate.

• Shiloh mayor upset with postmaster
SHILOH -- It has never been a hassle to residents of this little borough to get their mail, they say.

• Veterans remembered
UPPER DEERFIELD TWP. - A little light rain Saturday morning didn't faze the roughly 200 people who attended the township's annual Veterans Day ceremony at the municipal complex's veterans monument.

• 2008 Millville airshow may be last
By JEAN JONES

• Teenager charged in infant's death
BRIDGETON - Police on Friday arrested and charged a teenage baby-sitter in connection with the May death of an infant.

• The Angels are back
MILLVILLE - The Guardian Angels Friday night began their night-time patrols around the city after two weeks of relative inactivity, as the Millville chapter seeks to rebuild following the change of leadership and recent stripping of uniforms.

• 9 bug bombs explode
MILLVILLE - A series of nine bug bombs ignited an oven pilot light at a residence on Thursday morning, in what firefighters called a "minor explosion" that blew out all the windows and doors on the first floor of the East Oak Street duplex.

• Angels patrol again
MILLVILLE - After two weeks without going on a single patrol, the local chapter of the Guardian Angels is scheduled to once again don their uniforms and hit the streets of Millville.

• Church if Vintage offers unique clothing
BRIDGETON - The former home of Sherlock's Tomes on Commerce Street is going old school.

• Grand Jury indictments
From staff reports

• Police Blotter
BRIDGETON

• Postmaster P.O's Shiloh
SHILOH - There are no mailboxes in Shiloh.

• Sexual Assault Team set
BRIDGETON - Since 1984, the Cumberland County Sexual Assault Program has aided the victims of sexual abuse.

• Traffic light near; not 911 poles
UPPER DEERFIELD TWP -- Six months after 25-year-old Jason Williams was thrown from his motorcycle and killed, the township committee here believes it is close to having a new traffic light in the works for the intersection of Old Deerfield Pike and Laurel Heights Drive.

• Zoners: Church can stay
MILLVILLE - Memberrs of the congregation of Cornerstone Community Church stood up and cheered when the city zoning board voted unanimously to allow their church to remain open, despite legislation barring churches from establishing in areas deemed for business.

• 831 provisionals votes still to be counted
BRIDGETON - The Cumberland County Board of Elections will take the rest of the week to wade through 831 provisional ballots received following Tuesday's election.

• Carmel Fire Co. wants voters to decide fate
DEERFIELD TWP - A law firm representing Carmel Fire Company has asked the township to reopen the station until residents, not the township committee, decide whether to keep it closed permanently.

• Dinner feeds needy
MILLVILLE - The city's homeless and elderly who have no one to celebrate the holidays with will have the opportunity this year to eat, drink and (at least for one night) be merry, thanks to a group of community activists planning to set up a free Thanksgiving dinner.

• Magazzu only vet on board
There will be real change on the Cumberland County freeholder board in 2009.

• Obama effect was catastrophic
Call it a tsunami, a tidal wave or a hurricane.

• Three dirt bike courses coming to NJMP
MILLVILLE - Racing directors are pursuing plans to build three state police-approved dirt bike courses at the New Jersey Motorsports Park to fill a need many at the racing track feel as being ignored in the area.

• What can occur because of global warming
By JEAN JONES