Rowan’s Mason Dorsey has been named to the 2026 ABCA NCAA Division III Region IV All-Defensive Team as voted on by members of the American Baseball Coaches Association.
Dorsey (Hammonton, NJ/St. Augustine Prep), the Profs’ centerfielder, posted a .992 fielding percentage this season, committing only one error in 126 total chances.
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Visit Resorts Casino Hotel this June for exciting promotions, giveaways, and summer celebrations! We are Destination Summer!
North Beach Atlantic City Fireworks
June 26| 9:30PM | The Boardwalk/Beach in Front of ResortsKick off summer with an amazing fireworks display in North Beach Atlantic City! Resorts Casino Hotel is the #1 viewing location! The firework spectacular is free and open to the public. Visit Resorts early to enjoy Happy Hour at 7 bar locations and dine at one of our restaurants; and stay late for great casino action. Hotel rooms will be in demand, so visit www.resortsac.com to check availability.
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The Philadelphia Police Department is actively investigating three separate violent incidents that occurred across the city in the early morning hours of Saturday, June 20, 2026. These incidents left three people injured by gunfire and a group of friends subjected to an armed carjacking following a neighborhood shootout.
Double Shooting Leaves One Critically Injured after Verbal Dispute
At approximately 2:42 AM, officers from the 25th District responded to the Temple University Hospital Emergency Room following the arrival of two walk-in gunshot victims. Preliminary findings indicate that a 23-year-old female and a 27-year-old female had left a local bar around 2:30 AM and were driving to drop the older female off at home. Approximately 15 minutes into their drive, a dark-colored sedan pulled alongside the passenger side of their vehicle. Following a brief verbal exchange between the 23-year-old victim and an occupant of the sedan, a suspect inside the dark vehicle opened fire. The suspect vehicle immediately fled the scene. Realizing her passenger was unresponsive and bleeding, the driver rushed to Temple ER. The 23-year-old driver is currently listed in stable condition with a gunshot wound to her left shoulder, while the 27-year-old passenger remains in critical condition with a gunshot wound to her left eye. The motive is currently unknown, no arrests have been made, and the Shooting Investigation Group is leading the ongoing investigation.
Continue reading “Overnight Incidents”A Camden man has been arrested and charged in connection with a fatal shooting that took place in the city earlier this month, reported Camden County Prosecutor Grace C. MacAulay and Camden County Police Chief Gabriel Rodriguez.
Eric Irizarry, 45, is charged with 1st -degree Murder in the death of 24-year-old Luis J. Bonet of Camden. He is also charged with 2nd -degree Unlawful Possession of a Weapon and 2nd -degree Possession of a Weapon for an Unlawful Purpose.
The Sherrill Administration today announced 33 Local Bridges Fund grants totaling $44 million to help counties maintain local bridges in a state of good repair.
“Keeping our infrastructure in a state of good repair is critical to the safety, reliability and capability of our transportation system,” NJDOT Commissioner Priya Jain said. “The NJDOT’s Local Bridge Fund supports the Department’s state of good repair goal, by providing counties with the resources needed to make critical bridge improvements. These investments are just one example of the Sherrill Administration’s commitment to bolstering our transportation network and its daily users.”
Continue reading “Sherrill Administration Announces $44 Million inFY2026 Local Bridges Fund grants”Detectives are investigating a shooting that injured a man in Winslow Township, reported Camden County Prosecutor Grace C. MacAulay and Winslow Township Police Chief Donald Lemons.
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The Sherrill Administration is awarding $16.2 million in annual grants to help community recycling programs improve their waste reduction and recycling practices, Department of Environmental Protection Acting Commissioner Ed Potosnak announced today.
The award amounts are based on the amount of recycling each community reported during 2023, the most recent year for which data is available. Local recycling programs use grant funds to make improvements to recycling centers, set up household hazardous waste collection events, deploy more public recycling receptacles, maintain leaf composting operations and run recycling education programs. The grants are funded through a $3 per-ton surcharge on trash disposed statewide at solid waste facilities, per the state’s Recycling Enhancement Act.
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Gloucester Township Police Crime Stoppers- Blue Haired Shoplifting Suspect Captured On Camera At Gloucester Township Target Store
Watch this GTPD Crime Stopper VIDEO here!: https://youtu.be/ZJjzZzbMJqY
On Tuesday, June 16, 2026 at approximately 11:04 AM, cameras at the Target Store in the Sicklerville Section of Gloucester Township captured the pictured suspect entering the store, selecting several items that were concealed into a reusable Target shopping bag, then exiting the store through the entrance doors without rendering payment. The suspect was last seen on foot fleeing towards the nearby Wawa Store.
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Route 154/Brace Road northbound is scheduled to be closed and detoured between Old Bortons Mill Road and Pearl Croft Road beginning Monday morning, June 22 and continuing for several weeks for priority gas main work in Cherry Hill, Camden County.
Beginning at 7 a.m. Monday, June 22 until 5 p.m. Friday, June 26 and continuing Monday mornings through Friday afternoons at the same time until Friday, July 31, Route 154/Brace Road northbound is scheduled to be closed from Old Bortons Mill Road to Pearl Croft Road. The closure is necessary for priority gas main repairs. The following detour will be in place:
Continue reading “Route 154 northbound to be closed and detoured beginning Monday”As I look back on this life I’ve lived, I have no regrets, no what-ifs
By William E. Cleary Sr. | CNBNews Editor
PREFACE
I’m eighty-one years old, and I’ve been a journalist for fifty-eight years.
I never went to college. Everything I know about this profession, I learned from my father, George F. Cleary Sr., who bought the Gloucester City News in 1950 and ran it until I took over as editor in 1978. What he didn’t teach me, I learned through trial and error—and believe me, there was plenty of both.
People ask me why I’m writing this book now. The truth is, I’ve been writing it my whole life. For decades, I documented my community’s stories in weekly newspapers, and more recently, on my blog, CNBNews. This book weaves together my autobiography with articles I’ve published over the years—stories about corruption, courage, tragedy, and everyday lives in a small South Jersey city most folks have never heard of.
When you’re a small-town journalist, you make enemies. People threaten you. They call you names. They try to shut you down. But if you spend your life worrying about what might happen, or second-guessing the stories you published, you’ll never write anything worth reading.
I’ve been sued, threatened, even arrested once for “trespassing” while investigating a story. I’ve worked undercover with the New Jersey State Police. I’ve interviewed members of the Ku Klux Klan and the Pagans motorcycle club. I’ve exposed corruption and covered tragedies that broke my heart. I stood in the middle of a battle between the Teamster union and the Longshoremen’s union, with sheriff officers on horseback and K-9 units keeping them apart.
And I don’t regret a single story.
My perspective differs from big-city reporters at the Philadelphia Inquirer or the New York Times. I wasn’t covering presidents and wars—well, except for that one time I met Jimmy Carter, and another time I rode an elevator with Donald Trump.
Mostly, I covered city council meetings, house fires, local corruption, and ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
Read more: From Pen to Paper: Gcity Reporter Shares Memories of 58-Year CareerIn a small town, the newspaper isn’t just a business—it’s the community’s memory, its conscience, and sometimes its only voice.
If you’re looking for polish, you won’t find it here. But if you want the truth, told by someone who learned journalism in the streets rather than a classroom, then keep reading.
This book is that voice, looking back across more than half a century. It’s messy and honest, just like the life I’ve lived.
I wouldn’t have it any other way.
INTRODUCTION
On a sweltering July afternoon in 1989, a well-dressed stranger walked into my newspaper office and said he’d been told that if anyone wanted to do business in Gloucester City, they had to go through me first.
That conversation launched a three-month undercover investigation with the New Jersey State Police involving alleged mob connections, a corrupt development scheme, and a shocking revelation: I wasn’t helping them catch a crooked politician. I was the target.
Welcome to small-town journalism in America.
I’m Bill Cleary. I was born in 1944 and raised in Gloucester City, New Jersey—a working-class town of row houses and corner taverns across the Delaware River from Philadelphia. The kind of place where everyone knows your business, where the fire whistle brings people running to their windows, and where telling the truth can make you powerful enemies.
My father was the editor and publisher of the Gloucester City News. From the time I was eight years old, I rode with him to fires, watched him chase stories, and learned what it meant to be a reporter. He taught me that journalism wasn’t about being popular—it was about telling the truth, even when people didn’t want to hear it. Especially then.
In 1978, I became editor of the paper. In 1985, my wife Connie and I bought it outright. We raised three children—Kelly Ann, Connie Lynn, and Billy Jr.—who gave us seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. We married at St. Mary’s Church on April 18, 1964, when I was barely twenty and she was the most beautiful woman in the city. Sixty years later, she still is.
Before journalism became my full-time calling, I worked eleven years at the Gloucester City Post Office with the impressive title of “Temporary, Part-time Clerk-Carrier.” Try getting a bank loan with that on your application. We lived in several apartments before buying our first home at 710 Powell Street, then moved to Riverview Heights in 1972, where we’ve been ever since.
But this book isn’t just my story. It’s the story of a town, a time, and what happens when ordinary people stand up to power. It’s about corruption and courage, about family and loyalty, about what we’ve lost and what we’re still fighting to keep.
This is my story, told in my own words, with articles from my six-decade career woven throughout. It’s not always pretty, and it doesn’t always have a happy ending.
But it’s the truth. And that’s the only thing I’ve ever known how to write.
My father taught me to run toward the fire, not away from it.
No regrets, No what ifs.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE:
THE ENIGMATIC VISITOR
CHAPTER TWO:
THE MAN WHO INSPIRED ME
CHAPTER THREE:
MY SUMMER LOVE BECOMES MY WIFE
CHAPTER FOUR:
THE BATTLE OF NEWARK
CHAPTER FIVE:
11 YEARS OF JUGGLING TWO WORLDS
CHAPTER SIX:
OUR POWELL STREET HOME
CHAPTER SEVEN:
CHRISTMAS IN GLOUCESTER CITY
CHAPTER EIGHT:
ENTERTAINMENT BACK IN THE DAY
CHAPTER NINE:
TAVERNS, POLITICS, 3 PM MANHATTAN GANG
CHAPTER TEN:
OUR BEST FRIENDS
CHAPTER ELEVEN:
MY ADVENTURES IN THE GREAT OUTDOORS
CHAPTER 12:
CRIMINALS AND FUNNY CHARACTERS
CHAPTER 13:
SPORTS LEGENDS OF GCHS AND GHS
CHAPTER 14:
A HODGEPODGE of ARTICLES