Race logo created by seventh grader Aja Bing, selected by the staff from among approximately 50 entries.

HAMILTON TOWNSHIP – Graduates and all township residents are invited to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the opening of the William Davies Middle School. A wide variety of activities and festivities, including the opening of the time capsule that was put into place on the school’s opening, September 17, 1988 are scheduled to take place at the school on Saturday, May 18.

Students John Jensen, foreground, and Taylor Troehler use a net to catch biological samples. Students in the higher levels of Cedar Creek High School's environmental science magnet program became certified volunteer water monitors through in-class training and a field trip April 10 in which they surveyed biological samples at Indian Cabin Creek, upstream from Egg Harbor City Lake, with the help of Watershed Ambassadors from AmeriCorps.  Teacher Erin Sharpe said the training gives students a valuable real-world lesson to apply to their studies.

The $400,000 Small Cities grant will be used to reconstruct portions of Buffalo and Cincinnati avenues as primary access streets to Spragg Elementary School, and adjacent playground and recreational facilities. The Christie Administration announced the award of a $400,000 Small Cities grant April 24 to Egg Harbor City as part of $6.5 million in awards statewide.

The city will use the grant to reconstruct portions of Buffalo and Cincinnati avenues as primary access streets to Spragg Elementary School, as well as adjacent playground and recreational facilities.

Students watch their bubbles get swept away in the wind at the the Charles L. Spragg School Monday, April 22 as they celebrated Blowing Bubbles 4 Autism. Charlie Pritchard EGG HARBOR CITY – As the wind howled on a chilly Monday afternoon, students and teachers from the Charles L. Spragg School, as well as parents, joined their peers across the state to celebrate Blowing Bubbles 4 Autism April 22. 

Garrett LaRoche, 11, and his father, Paul, of Mays Landing clean up Old Landis Avenue from Route 40 to Estelle Avenue during the Hamilton Township Earth Day Community Cleanup and Shredding Event Saturday, April 20. Matthew Strabuk Garrett LaRoche, 11, and his father, Paul, of Mays Landing clean up Old Landis Avenue from Route 40 to Estelle Avenue during the Hamilton Township Earth Day Community Cleanup and Shredding Event Saturday, April 20.

MAYS LANDING _ The Florida man, who was arrested and charged in the 2012 shooting death of a MullicaTownship 77-year-old, will make his first court appearance tomorrow.

HAMILTON TOWNSHIP ­­– The Township of Hamilton Police Department arrested one man and seized heroin, crack cocaine, and other illicit drugs while investigating a towing dispute in the Woodlands Complex Tuesday evening, April 23.

It was about 8:30 p.m. when Sgt. Patrick Muller was flagged down by security in the Woodlands Complex about a towing dispute.