PEMBERTON BOROUGH—The municipal administrator and clerk of Pemberton Borough, Kathy Smick, has announced her retirement, effective April 1. Smick, who became the borough’s administrator and clerk in J...

MEDFORD LAKES—An ordinance is now in place in Medford Lakes Borough banning the parking of vehicles in front yards there, and another is in the works clarifying residential dwelling units are to be lo...

SOUTHAMPTON—A settlement agreement is reportedly in the works that will address Pinelands Water and Wastewater Companies’ recent petition filed with the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) seek...

MEDFORD—The newly constituted Medford Township Council, following a special executive session on the evening of Jan. 27, voted unanimously to appoint ex-councilwoman and local realtor Donna Symons to ...

SHAMONG—The leadership of Shamong Township will remain the same for 2026, with Michael Di Croce and Brian Woods chosen to serve again as mayor and deputy mayor, respectively. But there has been a chan...

PEMBERTON—Democratic Pemberton Township mayoral candidate Dr. Belinda Fontanez, who announced her political campaign for elected office earlier this month, has now garnered the support of the township...

MEDFORD—The appointment of William “Bill” Dunleavy as township police chief, which took place at the final meeting of the former township council on Dec. 16, is one that is bound to resonate with many...

TABERNACLE—The fate of Tabernacle Town Hall and Tabernacle’s emergency services are now in the hands of a newly-reorganized Tabernacle Township Committee, featuring a new committee member, as well as ...

WOODLAND—A local Emergency Management Council has now been officially established in Woodland Township with appointments made to it during the Woodland Township Committee’s 10 a.m., Jan. 5 reorganizat...

PEMBERTON—The selection by the all-Republican Pemberton Township Council of Republican Matthew Bianchini as Pemberton Township’s next mayor “due to the vacancy of the office” of mayor was not a unanim...

PEMBERTON—Matthew Bianchini, a Republican who served as council president of Pemberton Township last year, now following the Dec. 31, 2025, resignation of Jack Tompkins as mayor, has been chosen by Pe...

SOUTHAMPTON—A tireless advocate for Southampton Township and its retirement community, LeisureTowne, as well as a past member of the township’s school, planning and zoning boards, in addition to servi...

MOUNT HOLLY—Dr. Felicia Hopson will once again serve this year as director of the all-Democratic Burlington County Commissioners’ Board. And as was pointed out during the board’s Jan. 7 reorganization...

SOUTHAMPTON—Representatives from the State Agricultural Development Committee attended a Dec. 16 Southampton Township Committee session to draw attention to a new statewide formula-based valuation met...

PEMBERTON—The first major candidate to formally announce a run for mayor of Pemberton Township in this upcoming election cycle is Belinda Fontanez, who describes herself as a “conservative Democrat” w...

MOUNT LAUREL—Jeanne Paulsen, executive assistant to the recently-axed Rowan College at Burlington County (RCBC) president Dr. Michael Cioce, and the spouse of a former Burlington County and state Repu...

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...