Local News
Marvin Crane will be honored as grand marshal of the Guinea Jubilee this weekend.
The Gloucester County Board of Supervisors and the Gloucester County School Board will discuss lump sum vs. categorical funding of the school system during a joint work session Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the Gloucester Main Library Community Room.
Two candidates for county supervisors’ seats in November 2011 announced they were going to run during the Gloucester County Republican Committee meeting last Thursday evening in the colonial courthouse.
Gloucester County is establishing an Urban Development Area Steering Committee to work with county staff and consultants to oversee the planning process to designate and plan for an Urban Development Area (UDA) for the Gloucester Point area.
Diane M. Rebertus, Gloucester’s new director of library services, wants the library to become more of a “community place.”
Michael A. Early, 20, of Gloucester, was sentenced to 18 months in jail Tuesday for involuntary vehicular manslaughter.
The Gloucester Sheriff’s Office is investigating the apparent murder/suicide of a husband and wife.
The Gloucester County School Board will get its chance to sit down with the board of supervisors before the governing body makes a decision on whether to change the school division’s funding method.
After lengthy discussion following a public hearing Thursday night, the Gloucester County Planning Commission tabled action until October on proposed changes to sign regulations in the zoning ordinance.
Annual unveiling festivities for the 31st Guinea Jubilee will take place Sunday, beginning at 2 p.m., at the Abingdon Ruritan Club, Bena.
Attorneys for four of the 12 individuals subpoenaed in million dollar lawsuits against Gloucester Commonwealth’s Attorney Robert D. “Bob” Hicks, have filed a motion to quash the latest attempts by plaintiffs’ lawyers to produce images of their computer hard drives.
Three Gloucester teenagers have been charged by the Gloucester Sheriff’s Office in connection with several thefts from unlocked vehicles that occurred between Aug. 31 and Sept. 2 in the Wicomico area and last weekend in the vicinity of Providence Road.
The 2010-2011 school year for Gloucester public school students begins Tuesday and it will be a shorter-than-usual academic session.
The Gloucester County School Board will again ask the board of supervisors for an opportunity for the two boards to sit down to discuss the issue of changing the schools’ funding method before any action is taken on the matter.








