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GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP NJ–On September 26, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Gloucester Township Police officers and Fire Personnel from the several different Fire Departments were called to the area Barbara Place, in the Timber Birch Section of Gloucester Township, for a report of a house fire. Officers and firefighters arrived on location and found heavy smoke and fire coming from residence.

Tick-tock. The ball drops on the fiscal New Year Wednesday night. Absent a deal on how to fund government starting October 1^st, workers will stay home, national parks will be closed, and agencies won’t be able to perform their jobs.

That everything would come down to the last minute was entirely predictable back in July, or even earlier. The House gave up after passing only six of the dozen required spending bills (every one of them facing a veto threat). The Senate never got started – not a single spending bill was even debated on the Senate floor, much less adopted. There were disagreements about whether and how much to bust the spending caps established by the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA). Once the dissension regarding efforts to defund Planned Parenthood are thrown in, you have an appropriations conundrum of Gordian knot proportions.

LEWES (Sept. 25, 2015) – An investigation into illegal waterfowl hunting in the Lewes area by DNREC Division of Fish & Wildlife Natural Resources Police officers culminated in the arrests Sept. 18 of three Sussex County men. Arrested and charged were:

·Harley Marrow, 18, of Rehoboth Beach, with one count each of felony possession of a firearm by a person prohibited, hunting black ducks out of season and possession of unlawfully taken game. Marrow was released on $1,200 unsecured bond pending a preliminary hearing.

·Job W. Robertson, 18, of Lewes, with one count each of hunting black ducks out of season and possession of unlawfully taken game. Robertson pled guilty to the charges in Justice of the Peace Court 1 in Frankford and was fined $302, including court costs.