Cherry Hill

Starting Tuesday, Cherry Hill parents will have to stop at the reception desk or main office in the district's schools to drop off homework, lunches, or musical instruments for their children. That restriction is one of several new measures going into effect as the result of a districtwide security assessment conducted in the wake of December's school shooting in Newtown, Conn. The rules, announced by Superintendent Maureen Reusche at a PTA meeting earlier this month, place limits on parents' presence in the district's 19 schools.

A Trenton man and a Philadelphia man were indicted Tuesday in an alleged attempt to steal more than $75,000 in a "Black Money Scam. " Nyondah L. Blay, also known as John Blay, 38, of Trenton, and Carl Jenkins, 36, of Philadelphia, were charged with conspiracy and attempted theft by deception, each of which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in state prison and a fine of up to $150,000. Blay and Jenkins were arrested Feb. 1 in Cherry Hill following a sting operation, said Jeffrey S. Chiesa, the state attorney general, in a news release.

The Marlton real estate group that won the auction for Woodcrest Country Club is planning to reopen the Cherry Hill club as a public golf course, township officials said Tuesday. The Haydingers - principals of First Montgomery Group - contacted Mayor Chuck Cahn on Tuesday and shared their plans for the property, saying "they do not at this point plan to seek a zoning change," township spokeswoman Bridget Palmer said. Township officials, who have opposed development of the 155-acre property, "are cautiously optimistic," Palmer said.

CHERRY HILL A Pennsauken man who allegedly used a screwdriver to threaten a Cherry Hill homeowner during a botched burglary was arrested Tuesday, Cherry Hill police said. Jon D. Padula, 22, of Willis Avenue, was picked up in Lindenwold on Tuesday on a warrant issued for the May 15 break-in. Police said they were called that morning to a St. Davids Road residence where the homeowner confronted the burglar as he was leaving the house. During a struggle, the burglar allegedly threatened the homeowner with a screwdriver.

Four years ago, Ali Derassouyan entered the University of Pennsylvania intent on becoming a cardiologist, a childhood dream motivated by a grandfather who had a heart ailment and five doctors in her extended family, including two cardiologists. That vision blew up sophomore year when she took chemistry and physics and found herself in the struggle of her life. "I realized that's not what I could see myself doing for the rest of my life," said Ali, 21, a Nazareth Academy High School graduate from Langhorne.

THE NFL, with the OK of the players union, is seriously contemplating moving the draft until sometime in May, ESPN reported, citing league sources. USA Today, citing a source, said Radio City Music Hall in New York is booked for the final weekend in April, when the draft is traditionally held. Also, ESPN reported that the start of the new league year likely would be moved to before the February scouting combine to allow free agents more time to sign with new teams. In other NFL news: * NFL owners will vote on the sites of the 50th and 51st Super Bowls today at their spring meetings.

  It seems the largest township in Burlington County tastes like cilantro-flavored hot sauce. Evesham tastes like crab cakes, too. And sushi. Then there are pizza, Irish stew, chicken marsala, potato-chip cookies, cream of tomato soup, chocolate truffles, and that groan-worthy favorite of carnivals everywhere: deep-fried Oreos. On Sunday afternoon, the township hosted its fifth annual "Taste of Evesham," drawing 2,200 noshers and wine-bibbers to tents lining Main Street.

Cherry Hill is partnering with Camden County to bid on the bankrupt Woodcrest Country Club in an effort to preserve it as open space. At the county's request, the Township Council voted Friday to spend up to $960,000 on the bid at Monday's auction. The move comes after the county Board of Freeholders voted Tuesday to commit the required deposit of $650,600 from its open-space fund in order to participate in the bidding. The club's only secured creditor is Sun National Bank of Vineland, N.J., which is owed about $11 million.

The first graders in Jill Turley's class at Joyce Kilmer Elementary School in Cherry Hill love to write letters to their principal. They share goals such as "I want to be a teacher" and observations such as, "You and I have the same haircut. " Turley delivers those letters to Kwame Morton, and "the sweetest thing is, he writes them back," she said. "He acknowledges those children. " Greeted with hugs and high-fives when he steps into the hallways, Morton likely won't be the object of as many displays of youthful affection next year, when he will oversee teenagers as the principal at Cherry Hill High School West.

Democrat Michelle L. Winters can keep her seat on the Gloucester Township Council, a judge in Camden County ruled this week, rejecting an argument by the township Republican committee that her appointment was improper. Winters, a registered nurse from Blenheim, was appointed by the all-Democratic council on Feb. 11 to replace Michelle Gentek, who left the council in January after being elected a freeholder. On March 13, the GOP committee and its chairman, Ray Polidoro, filed a complaint in Superior Court saying the township Democratic committee and the council had not met the deadline for filling the vacancy and must therefore leave the seat vacant until it could be filled in the November election.