Cherry Hill

Carleen Hamilton wrote the first poem on a napkin, sitting in a coffee shop in Bermuda, on their honeymoon, Oct. 29, 1974. Oh, how I glowe   and grew to inconceivable brilliance in his loving fire. And we were called Sun and Moon. Complete life. Virtually every workday for the next 29 years, she wrote a poem on a napkin and packed it in her husband's lunch. And George Hamilton, director of the Fels Planetarium at the Franklin Institute, inspired by his new wife, her poetry, her devotion, and his own happiness, returned the kindness.

Kingsway Church in Cherry Hill used to host a modest Easter egg hunt, by Pastor Bryon White's standards: about 3,000 eggs, and 400 children and parents. White, however, had been harboring greater ambitions. "I kind of had this grand vision of 25,000 eggs," he said. When he shared his idea with staff at the Assembly of God church before last Easter, "people looked at me like I was insane," White said. He now presides over what he believes to be Cherry Hill's largest egg hunt.

A former mechanic for J&J Snack Foods Corp., maker of SuperPretzel, Icee, and Luigi's Real Italian Ice, has sued the Pennsauken food manufacturer, saying J&J cheated him out of his pay and then retaliated against him for complaining. Robert McMaster, 55, of Brookhaven, Delaware County, says in his federal suit, filed last week in Camden, that J&J routinely docked his pay for lunch even when he worked through his break. The suit also alleges that J&J required him to clock out before he completed his final duty of the day, reporting any mechanical problems or issues to the person taking over his duties on the next shift.

Kingsway Church in Cherry Hill used to host a modest Easter egg hunt, by Pastor Bryon White's standards: about 3,000 eggs and 400 kids and parents. White, however, had been harboring greater ambitions. "I kind of had this grand vision of 25,000 eggs," he said. When he shared his idea with staff at the Assembly of God church before last Easter, "people looked at me like I was insane," White said. He now presides over what he believes to be Cherry Hill's largest egg hunt. On Saturday, volunteers from Kingsway will scatter 30,008 plastic eggs across the Cherry Hill High School West football field.

A sealed-bid liquor license auction held Tuesday by the Township of Cherry Hill drew just one bidder: a company run by the family that owns a group of ShopRite supermarkets. Brett, Jason, and Shawn Ravitz are partners in Empire Liquors L.L.C., which township officials said bid $501,000 on the distribution license. The Ravitzes intend to sell alcohol inside the ShopRite store at the Garden State Pavilion, said ShopRite spokeswoman Karen Meleta. "It's really a convenience to our customers," Meleta said.

Ever tried to find out something about your municipality quickly online: the mayor's e-mail address, the next trash pickup, details on pet licensing? If you live in Cherry Hill, it was probably pretty easy, according to a new report from the Monmouth University Polling Institute and Graduate Program in Public Policy, which listed the township's website as the 15th-best in the state. Your experience may be different in Pemberton Borough or Mansfield Township, which ranked 535th and 538th among the 540 municipal websites studied.

The Cherry Hill school board on Thursday adopted a $174 million budget for next year, an increase of less than 2 percent over the current $171.3 million budget. The budget makes no cuts to programs and adds just over a dozen full-time equivalent positions, nearly all in special education. The district needs the new positions - three teachers and eight educational assistants - because students receiving special-ed have been moving from one grade level to another in greater numbers than students leaving those grades, said district spokeswoman Susan Bastnagel.

A Cherry Hill man described by law enforcement officials as a top local drug dealer and "menace to the community" was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison. Lovell Venable, 35, was a major supplier of PCP, a dangerous hallucinogenic known as angel dust, to a criminal network that also distributed heroin and cocaine in Camden, according to the New Jersey Attorney General's Office. Venable, 35, was one of 14 defendants named in a 2011 racketeering indictment that included 29-year-old Kyle Ogletree, described by officials as a "reputed five-star general" in a gang known as the G-Shine Bloods.