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Group includes top athletes, coaches, administrators and a World Cup player

This year’s Salem County Sports Hall of Fame induction class has it all. It covers a variety of sports, a cross-section of the high schools in the county and even some international flair.

It features a legendary coach, one of the most prolific scorers in county basketball history, an athlete whose success reaches from the field to the sidelines, one of the best athletes the county ever produced, a World Cup soccer player and an administrator who raised the entire athletics profile at his school.

This year’s Hall of Fame induction class features – drum roll, please – Geoff Shute, Joe Hickman, Sean Collins, Steve Ware, Tierrny Wiltshire and community honoree Jack Swain.

PENNSVILLE — The Pennsville Police Department’s arrest summary for Sept. 16–30 counts 32 arrests, 30 adults and two juveniles, whose details are not included here. The 35 adult entries below cover 29 named adults, several of whom were arrested more than once. Five people face gun charges, including two 18-year-olds charged with weapons offenses that include a sawed-off shotgun and a defaced firearm. Three Salem residents were charged with distributing heroin or cocaine along with firearm offenses. 

Salem City hasn't posted a single set of council meeting minutes since March — that's more than six months with no public record of what happened at any council meeting. This is all stemming from background research we were trying to do for another story, checking what city officials had told us about the recent budget vote against the official record. We couldn't, because the record isn't there.

We asked City Hall about it on Sept. 24. No response. We asked again after Monday night's meeting. This time we got an answer, of sorts: a councilwoman wanted to know what we'd found before she'd tell us what we should be finding.

This Day in history 9/28/1895 Waldemar “Whitey” Witt Born

On September 28, Alloway Township quietly passes a baseball and Salem County, N.J., anniversary most of the country has forgotten; the 131st birthday of Lawton Waldemar “Whitey” Witt, born Ladislaw Waldemar Wittkowski in Orange, Massachusetts, in 1895. This year, the date lands with unusual timing. Major League Baseball’s 2026 postseason opens the very next day with Witt’s beloved Yankees taking on arch-rival Boston in the Wild Card round, followed by the Division Series starting October 3, the League Championship Series beginning October 11, and the World Series set to open October 23.

How a 1942 fire unveiled the oldest still-standing patterned brick home in Salem County.

Salem County Board Director Ben Laury says the basis for his statement that PSEG is “currently planning two new reactors” at its Salem site was a phone call from a PSEG representative. PSEG itself won’t confirm or deny it.

Salem County Board Director Ben Laury says the basis for his statement that PSEG is “currently planning two new reactors” at its Salem site was a phone call from a PSEG representative. PSEG itself won’t confirm or deny it.

For travelers on Route 540 through Alloway Twp.

Not sure if this is allowed but the study is looking for South Jersey residents' transportation habits for one day and they have Visa gift card incentives for those who partake in the survey.