PEMBERTON—Embattled Pemberton Township Mayor Jack Tompkins, after more than two-years’ worth of calls to resign from elected office, will do just that on Dec. 31, the Pine Barrens Tribune confirmed on...

PEMBERTON—The embattled mayor of Pemberton Township is reportedly contemplating his next steps after the Burlington County Joint Insurance Fund (JIF) informed the elected official via a Certified Mail letter on Oct. 28 that he will no longer be provided with Employment Practices and Public Officials Liability Insurance effective the first day of the New Year. It is the insurance policy <a href="https://www.pinebarrenstribune.com/articles/featured-stories/pemberton-mayor-told-hell-be-dropped-from-towns-insurance-policy-beginning-in-new-year/">[…]</a>

PLUMSTED TOWNSHIP—It was the place where South Jersey’s own car-racing icon, Martin Truex, Jr., who hails from the Mayetta section of Stafford Township in Ocean County, got his earliest training, driv...

WASHINGTON—During the month of October, Washington Township Mayor C. Leigh Gadd, Jr. had honored two residents for dedicating “countless hours and valuable resources” to help revitalize the municipal ...

MEDFORD—It doesn’t always take a landslide to dramatically alter the political landscape. Sometimes, as in the case of the contest to fill three open seats on the Medford Township Council, who won and...

MEDFORD—A longtime primary care practice in Medford Township is among four reportedly in South Jersey being abruptly closed later this month by Optum, Inc., a division of Minnesota-based UnitedHealth ...

SHAMONG—A retired Tabernacle Township firefighter, as well as those who are part of the Indian Mills Volunteer Fire Company in Shamong Township, are being credited with having saved a popular Shamong ...

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A cold, windy day is on tap Tuesday and a snow squall is possible, especially NW.

PEMBERTON—Burlington County just got a little more expansive and enjoyable for people living with mobility issues. A 0.7-mile wheelchair-accessible trail that winds alongside Pemberton Lake, created e...

SHAMONG—The Shamong Township Committee late on Oct. 7 unanimously rescinded its previous, highly-controversial termination of an agreement with the Tabernacle Rescue Squad (TRS) for ambulance services...

SHAMONG—Just mere hours after Shamong Township Republican Mayor Michael Di Croce’s Democratic challenger Anastasia Zuccaro called out the elected official and his colleagues on the Shamong Township Co...

MOUNT LAUREL—The Rowan College at Burlington County (RCBC) Board of Trustees meeting of Sept. 16 was one that started celebratory, but turned increasingly contentious, before taking a major turn when ...

MOUNT LAUREL—With the recent Aug. 19 regular session of the Rowan College at Burlington County (RCBC) Board of Trustees considered chaos, a special session held Sept. 4 to decide whether College Presi...

PEMBERTON BOROUGH—The “Canoe House” in Pemberton Borough, by the base of the Hanover Street Bridge, will remain in municipal hands, at least for now. The possibility of selling the Canoe House was rai...

PEMBERTON—The president of the all-Republican Pemberton Township Council – a legislative body now clearly split on several key issues some nine months after having taken over in January from a Democra...

TABERNACLE­—Spurred by a social media post from the Tabernacle Rescue Squad (TRS) announcing that the attorney for Tabernacle Township had ordered the 73-year-old organization evicted from its buildin...

PEMBERTON—A proposed $1.8 million bond ordinance for Pemberton Township’s Water Utility has once again been tanked, this time on Sept. 3 in a surprise fashion when GOP Councilman Dan Dewey unexpectedl...

PEMBERTON—The first farm to take advantage of a recent update to a 40-year-old state policy promising to make it easier to preserve farmland in New Jersey happens to be a local one. Brian Arzt, owner ...

MOUNT LAUREL—Another round of chaos transpired during a Rowan College at Burlington County (RCBC) Board of Trustees meeting, this time on Aug. 19 when Vice Chair Gino A. Pasqualone motioned to remove ...

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WOODLAND—An “internet outage that we had last month (July)” in Woodland Township previously raised by Deputy Mayor Mark Herndon, had posed a “pretty dangerous situation” for township residents, accord...