• Musgraves makes country music better

    Kacey Musgraves isn't necessarily the spokesperson for modern country music but her debut album, "Same Trailer Different Park," is powerful enough to shift the direction of the genre.

    This album captures the untamed spirit of Musgraves and has received positive attention from a diverse audience. Released March 19 on Mercury Records, the 12 tracks showcase the 24-year-old's songs that flip around clichés that aren't worried about being patriotic. Musgraves, with just one song, has ended the conventional country music idiom.

  • Clarion Hotel to become apartments

    Submitted/Clarion Hotel in West Atlantic City to be converted into affordable housing apartments.

    EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP – Developers of an affordable housing project got the green light to move ahead with plans to convert the Clarion Hotel into apartments on Wednesday, May 8 after Township Committee passed a series of resolutions by a 4-1 vote authorizing the project.

  • Ventnor woman charged with 2007 murder after husband’s remains are found in her closet

    VENTNOR – A 61-year-old Ventnor woman was arrested and charged with murder today (Friday, May 17) after a search of her Hampshire Avenue residence uncovered the remains of her dead husband who had been missing since 2007.

  • 2 children airlifted to Cooper after Absecon head-on

    ABSECON – Two children ages 7 and 9 were airlifted to Cooper University Hospital in Camden Wednesday, May 15 after a head-on crash between two pickup trucks at the intersection of North Shore Road and Faunce Landing Road.

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Merry Christmas from the Galloway Current

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Last Updated on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 10:56 am Written by STEVE PRISAMENT Friday, December 21, 2012 12:53 pm

Anyone for some light music?

GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP – The light show on Lake Meone at Historic Smithville is a one-man show.

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Man hurt, then charged in fire

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Written by STAFF Thursday, December 20, 2012 06:26 pm

GALLOWAY – One man was injured at 3:15 p.m. Monday, Dec. 17 in a structure fire at a residence for employees at a blueberry farm on S. Genoa Avenue in the Pomona section of the township. He was later arrested on a charge of aggravated arson.

Upon arrival, police and firefighters reported seeing heavy fire in a second-floor bedroom.

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Five police retire to save younger officers’ jobs

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Written by STEVE PRISAMENT Thursday, December 20, 2012 06:07 pm

GALLOWAY – Five senior township police officers are retiring at the end of the month, rendering unnecessary a plan to lay off five junior officers

“Please be advised that on this date, Galloway Township Manager Arch Liston has rescinded the layoff notices to the five most junior police officers in Galloway Township,” Police Chief Patrick Moran said in a press release Wednesday, Dec. 19. “Lt. Tom Davey, Lt. Paul Dooner, Sgt. Troy Midgette, Cpl. Mike Goldberg, and Cpl. Harvey Bird have all made application to the pension board to retire as of January 1. All have done so to save junior officers from layoffs.”

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Students write choreography to poetry

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Last Updated on Thursday, December 20, 2012 12:56 pm Written by JENNIFER FOX Thursday, December 20, 2012 12:52 pm

Performing from left are Madison Restle, Ashley Fox and Tiana Le. Performing from left are Madison Restle, Ashley Fox and Tiana Le.

The Absegami High School Dance Program held its 10th Choreoproject Friday, Dec. 14 in the school’s Performing Arts Center.

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Students aid Pinelands peers

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Last Updated on Thursday, December 20, 2012 12:58 pm Written by JOANNA WESTCOTT Thursday, December 20, 2012 12:47 pm

Galloway Township Middle School students, from left, Matthew Sato, Elizabeth Ryu, Paige Richards and Taylor DeClement present Pinelands Regional High School social worker Kristen Abbatemarco and Pinelands family therapist Elyssa Denton with 35 $20 and two $10 Applebee’s gift cards Monday, Dec. 17. Galloway Township Middle School students, from left, Matthew Sato, Elizabeth Ryu, Paige Richards and Taylor DeClement present Pinelands Regional High School social worker Kristen Abbatemarco and Pinelands family therapist Elyssa Denton with 35 $20 and two $10 Applebee’s gift cards Monday, Dec. 17.

Some families just to the north are still in a bad way following Hurricane Sandy.

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Council bags food for donation

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Written by STAFF Thursday, December 20, 2012 12:39 pm

Helping the food bank. Helping the food bank.

Galloway Township Middle School Student Council members, from left, Giovanni Spagnoli, Lewis Darling, Nya Jobs, Kiersten Lupton, Chris Yip and Kaitlyn Doria drop off boxes and cans of food donated to the Community FoodBank of New Jersey - Southern Branch Monday, Dec. 17.

   

Nativity is a living, breathing reminder of the meaning of Christmas

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Written by STEVE PRISAMENT Thursday, December 20, 2012 12:27 pm

Assumption eighth-graders keep watch over the newborn baby Jesus, played by a doll. From left are Leah Dammann as a shepherd, Caleigh Gonzalez as Mary, Sean McFadden as Joseph and kindergartener Julia Higbee as an angel. All are from Galloway. Assumption eighth-graders keep watch over the newborn baby Jesus, played by a doll. From left are Leah Dammann as a shepherd, Caleigh Gonzalez as Mary, Sean McFadden as Joseph and kindergartener Julia Higbee as an angel. All are from Galloway.

GALLOWAY – With a live camel to help them over the hump, students and animals enacted the third annual live Nativity of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish Saturday, Dec. 15 at Assumption Regional Catholic School, 146 S. Pitney Road.

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Toys go out to tots

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Written by STAFF Thursday, December 20, 2012 12:03 pm

The group who sorted and stocked the shelves for Toys for Tots include representatives of Galloway Boy Scout Troop 97, Mainland Regional High School, Absecon’s Emma C. Attales Middle School, the 177th Fighter Wing and Marine Corps League Detachment 194. The group who sorted and stocked the shelves for Toys for Tots include representatives of Galloway Boy Scout Troop 97, Mainland Regional High School, Absecon’s Emma C. Attales Middle School, the 177th Fighter Wing and Marine Corps League Detachment 194.

Toys were distributed for this year's annual Marine Corps League Toys for Tots Campaign for individual families Sunday-Tuesday, Dec. 16-18.

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