Cherry Hill

Cherry Hill has agreed to put on hold its motion to force a tax sale of Woodcrest Country Club pending an auction arranged by a bankruptcy trustee. Township solicitor Robert Wright said at a hearing Tuesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Camden that it was in the township's best interests for the May 20 auction to move forward, with proceeds used to pay Cherry Hill $160,000 it says it is owed in taxes. Cherry Hill Land Associates, a subsidiary of First Montgomery Group of Marlton, has agreed to buy the 155-acre property for $6.25 million.

Four seats will be contested in this fall's Cherry Hill township council race, with three incumbents vying to keep their spots on the all-Democratic panel. Council President David Fleisher is running for reelection to the seven-member council along with first-term members Jim Bannar and Susan Shin Angulo. Joining the Democratic ticket is Carole Roskoph, an English teacher at Cherry Hill West and chairwoman of the planning board. Republicans are running two former candidates - Nancy O'Dowd and Dan Loveland Sr., both unsuccessful in 2009 - and new contenders John Galie, a former school board president, and Stephen Cohen, a dentist.

Eric O'Dell found out an apartment complex had been proposed for his part of Cherry Hill from a flier someone left on his windshield. He was stunned. The impassioned e-mail he subsequently wrote was forwarded all across town, which is how Lynda Yamamoto heard the news. And a phone call is what brought Susan McNaughton, a veteran of Cherry Hill development disputes in the 1970s, back to the front lines. "This is the biggest organized thing about a zoning issue I've ever been involved with," McNaughton, 66, said.

Cherry Hill intends to bid on the Woodcrest Country Club when the bankrupt golf course goes up for auction next month, township officials announced Wednesday. Mayor Chuck Cahn has asked Camden County to contribute money for the bid, which will have to top $6.5 million under terms set this week by a bankruptcy court judge. The township wants to ensure the 155-acre club — which entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings last year and didn't open for the season — remains a golf course or is preserved as open space, Cahn said.

In the Region DEP radiation study detailed The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection on Wednesday released detailed plans for its comprehensive radiation study of oil and gas development and said it intends to begin sampling this month. The agency plans to analyze radioactivity levels of flowback waters, treatment solids, drill cuttings, and drilling equipment, along with the transportation, storage, and disposal of drilling wastes. DEP says current data do not indicate any health risks, but activists have raised concerns about naturally occurring radioactivity in materials extracted from the mile-deep wells.

The president and chief executive of TD Bank Group, which competes with Wells Fargo for the top spot in Philadelphia-area deposit rankings, has announced his retirement effective Nov. 1. Succeeding Ed Clark, who has led TD for 12 years and spearheaded aggressive U.S. growth, will be Bharat Masrani, who is based in Cherry Hill and currently heads TD's U.S. operations, the Toronto company said. Mike Pederson, who currently heads TD's wealth management and other operations, will take over U.S. banking operations Nov. 1 and will relocate to Cherry Hill, the bank said.

Three patrons and a security guard were stabbed during a brawl at a Cherry Hill nightclub early Sunday, police said. Daniel Skillings, 32, of Sicklerville, was charged with aggravated assault with injury, unlawful possession of a weapon, and possession of a weapon for unlawful purpose. The fight broke out at 2:09 a.m. at Top Dog America's Bar & Grill, 2310 West Marlton Pike, between two patrons on the second-floor dance floor. The three patrons were treated for undisclosed injuries at Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County and were released, police said.

The Union League of Philadelphia wants to buy Cherry Hill's bankrupt Woodcrest Country Club and continue to operate it as a golf course, an attorney for the Center Center institution said Monday. Attorney Edmond George told U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Judith H. Wizmur the League intends to bid on what was known as a traditionally Jewish country club when it is sold at public auction, now set for May 20. A Marlton real estate group has already entered into an agreement with a bankruptcy trustee to buy the club for $6.25 million, an offer that will serve as the minimum bid for the auction.

John Martorano Jr. spends each day amid pallets heaped with junked computer towers and monitors, burned-out TVs, vacuums past their sucking prime, and old police scanners that have squawked for the last time. Recycling electronic waste is this South Jersey entrepreneur's preoccupation, one that took root in far different environs: in the meadows and forests of the Medford Wildlife Management Area, as he was accompanied by his dog at the time, Archie, on a tranquil walk. Tranquil, that is, until Martorano's blood started to boil about something on the cedar-lined trail.

A Sicklerville man pulled a knife during a brawl at a night club in Cherry Hill, stabbing three patrons and a security guard early Sunday morning, police said. Daniel Skillings, 32, of the unit block of Hampshire Road, has been charged with aggravated assault with injury, unlawful possession of a weapon and possession of a weapon for unlawful purpose. The fight broke out at 2:09 a.m. at Top Dog America's Bar & Grill, 2310 West Marlton Pike, when two patrons began to fight on the second-floor dance floor.