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.

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 – 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.

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.