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MILLVILLE — After more than two months of investigation, the man who slammed his newly purchased Ford Mus-tang into a car containing a mother and son received an assault charge for each person involved in the crash.

Edmond Grennon Jr., 23, of West Main Street, was charged with three counts of assault by automobile, a crime of the fourth-degree.

The Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office, rather than the local police, filed the charges against Grennon because the

(See CHARGES, Page A-3)

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BRIDGETON — Police are searching for three suspects in connection with a shooting that occurred on South East Avenue early this morning.

According to the report, three masked men, all approximately 5-feet, 10-inches in height with medium builds, harassed a man, who they allegedly shot in the arm.

The three men then fled on foot from the scene, leaving behind a shotgun that police recovered when they arrived.

The victim was transported to South Jersey Regional Medical Center in Vine-land for treatment.

“The motive appears to be robbery and appears to be isolated to this vic-tim,” said Lt. James Battavio, criminal investigation division commander at the Bridgeton Police Department. “I do not think this was a random act, but, as the investigation moves forward, we will beable to answer that.”

Police were dispatched to the area at 12:19 a.m. for the report of the shoot-ing.

When they arrived, the victim was up and walking around, according to scan-

Bridgetonshootingprobed

(See SHOOTING, Page A-5)

By Jason Ladaynj.com/south

BRIDGETON — Following the announcement that the proposed 2012 Cumberland County budget will provide the county library with $172,975 more than it received last year, officials on Wednesday stated there are still ongoing talks regarding a possible merger with Bridgeton Free Public Library.

Freeholders Carl Kirstein and Tom Sheppard, along with Bridgeton Mayor Al Kelly, all stated that the city and county are in the midst of talks, hash-ing out the details of a poten-tial library serving residents of Bridgeton and the rest of the county, located at 100 E. Com-

merce St., the current home of The News of Cumberland County.

“It’s still a possibility for the future,” said Sheppard, the deputy freeholder director. “My theory on this is instead of hav-ing two weak libraries in the area, we can have one strong one.”

Bridgeton City Council has indefinitely tabled a resolution

to purchase the East Commerce Street property for an amount not to exceed $260,000, with the plan to transform it into a new library, pending further review of the plan and an envi-ronment study on the building itself.

Kirstein, who serves as coun-ty freeholder director, stated county officials are waiting on the city council to act before

moving forward.“We’re waiting to get the

results of the environmental study of the building, and what the city will do with that,” he said. “We’re still hoping this is something that will work out.

“The additional funding that the county library received for 2012 allows them to keep their programs going, but if the merger happens, it would be down the road.”

Kirstein added: “I think, right now, everyone’s positive about the idea.”

According to Kelly, the envi-ronmental study is complete and is currently under review by the city engineer.

He stated any merged city/

(See LIBRARIES, Page A-5)

By Don E. Woodsnj.com/south

Millville — R.D. Wood Ele-mentary School in Millville hon-ored three alumni Wednesday by placing them on the school’s Wall of Fame.

Ken Booz, Matthew Robin-son and Katherine Thompson’s pictures will be placed on the lunchroom wall, next to the 34 past recipients of the honor.

This is the ninth group to be inducted into the Wall of Fame.

Some past honorees came to celebrate and a couple even gave introductions for the new inductees.

“All of our students need good, positive role models,” said Harry Drew, principal of the school. “And for them to see someone who came from this school that is successful in life, it gives them the inspiration that they can do the exact same thing.”

A committee of people that work or used to work at the school nominate and vote on

(See WALL, Page A-8)

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