A man died after being hit by a Trenton Line train Saturday afternoon, SEPTA officials said.
The Regional Rail train was traveling inbound about 12:30 p.m. when it struck the “trespasser” between the Croydon and Bristol stations, a SEPTA spokesperson said.
Service along the line was suspended for about three hours, and operations resumed about 3:40 p.m.
No additional information about the crash, including the man’s name or age, was immediately available Saturday evening.
Friday’s snow, sleet, and rain brought a cold mix of precipitation to Philadelphia and surrounding areas, leaving behind slippery conditions Saturday.
“Today looks quiet compared to last night, but watch out for the icy roads,” said Joseph DeSilva, a meteorologist in the National Weather Service’s Mount Holly office.
Saturday looks to be mostly cloudy, with a high of 34 degrees, a low of 25, and no precipitation on the horizon, DeSilva said.
While roads continue to be treated, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has already removed a 45 mph temporary speed-limit reduction for major highways in the five-county Philadelphia region, including on Interstates 76 and 95, as well as I-476, I-676, and I-295.
The wintry mix of snow, sleet, and intermittent rain moved into the region overnight, with temperatures hovering in the mid-30-degree range.
Regional accumulation totals varied, from .2 inch in Rittenhouse Square to .3 at Philadelphia International Airport, .4 in Mt. Holly and 1 inch in Skippack.
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Ray Martin, a meteorologist in the National Weather Service’s Mount Holly office said Friday that even without especially high accumulations, conditions would remain hazardous.
Sleet tends to be more compact than snow, demanding more effort when it comes to shoveling or plowing it off sidewalks, entryways, and garages.
For Martin, this is: “a lot of little ice balls, basically frozen raindrops, covering the ground. It will be like shoveling sand.”
If possible, he recommended waiting to drive until later Saturday, when temperatures were expected to rise above freezing.
In Northeast Philadelphia, icy roads have already claimed a life.
A 45-year-old woman was killed when her car was struck head-on by a pickup truck, police said. The crash occurred around 2 a.m., when thepickup was traveling north on the 3500 block of an ice-covered Aramingo Avenue when the driver lost control of the truck, police said.
The pickup was moving at an “unsafe speed for the wintry conditions,” police said, crossing into the southbound lanes and striking the woman’s car head-on.
Fire Department medics transported both drivers to local hospitals. The cwoman was transferred to Temple University Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 2:35 a.m. Meanwhile, the pickup driver is considered stable at Jefferson Hospital.
A third person, a 29-year-old passenger in the truck, was taken to Temple University Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
And the snowy, icy conditions aren’t just affecting Philadelphia.
Accumulation totals were higher north of the area, with anywhere from 2 to 6 inches in northern New Jersey.
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Due to the slippery conditions, acting New Jersey Gov. Tahesha Way declared a state of emergency across her state Friday morning, urging people to monitor official updates, remain off the roads unless necessary, and stay safe.
As of Saturday afternoon, 27 flights at Philadelphia International Airport were cancelled, and 164 were delayed, due to the storm. Those with holiday traveling around the corner, can track flight statuses at Philadelphia International Airport.
The storm came ahead of the 30th anniversary of Philly’s massive 1996 snowfall, when the city registered 30.7 inches between Jan. 7 and Jan. 8.
So far this season, Philadelphia has already seen more than half the snow last winter brought. This year’s seasonal total stands at 4.2 inches, while the city saw 8.1 inches during the entire 2024-25 winter.
Slight melting is expected through Saturday, but refreezing will come overnight, bringing a rainy Sunday with a high of 43 and a low of 37 degrees.
Conditions are set to improve in Philadelphia by early next week, with Monday expected to bring a high of 58 degrees and a low of 28, and the year waving farewell Wednesday with a high of 38 degrees and a low of 30, according to AccuWeather.
The story behind New Jersey Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill’s landslide victory last month can be understood by looking at her strong performance in the city of Camden.
The young, diverse, and working-class city exemplifies trends that played out across the state as Sherrill reversed rightward shifts among the voter groups Democrats desperately need to rebound with nationally.
An Inquirer analysis of municipal-level data shows that Sherrill outperformed both former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024 and outgoing Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy in 2021 across New Jersey’s 564 cities, boroughs, and townships, winning 300 — about 53% — of them as compared with Harris’ 252 last year and Murphy’s 210 four years ago.
She reversed gains made by President Donald Trump last year that gave Republicans false hope that Jack Ciattarelli, who was aligned with and endorsed by Trump, would do much better in November than he actually did as Sherrill outperformed expectations.
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Camden’s population is more than 54% Hispanic and nearly 38% Black — Democratic-leaning voter groups that had shifted toward Trump nationally in 2024. Sherrill’s campaign had outreach operations geared toward both Black and Hispanic voters.
Every demographic group in the state swung toward Democrats this year, but Sherrill’s most striking improvement over Murphy and Harris seemed to be among Hispanic people, who make up more than half of Camden’s population.
She similarly made gains in areas across the state that have high populations of young voters, lower-income voters, and voters without college degrees — like Camden.
Voters in Camden turned out for Sherrill resoundingly with 92% of the vote, more than 10 percentage points better than Harris performed in the city during her presidential run last year, and Sherrill outperformed the former vice president in every one of the city’s 40 precincts. The larger the Hispanic share of the voting district, the larger it shifted toward Sherrill.
This was reflected statewide, with the state’s 10 largest Hispanic-majority cities moving an average of 18 points to the left while other New Jersey municipalities moved just about four points toward the Democrat.
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Outreach to Hispanic voters was driven by a coordinated campaign between Sherrill’s campaign and the state Democratic Party, as well as independent expenditure groups. It seemed to pay off.
In Camden’s most heavily Hispanic precinct, for example, voters gave Sherrill 92% of the vote, 12 points more than they gave to Harris.
Sherrill’s campaign and its backers knew how important it was to win over these voters who had felt taken for granted by the Democratic Party.
Sherrill had limited time to introduce herself to voters coming out of a six-way competitive primary in June — which she won big but with less success in some heavily Black and Hispanic areas. To many voters, especially in South Jersey, she was just another candidate.
UnidosUS Action PAC experienced that unfamiliarity with Sherrill when its canvassers first started knocking on doors in Camden in September, said Rafael Collazo, the executive director of the PAC.
“The question that Latino voters and voters that we spoke to had wasn’t if they were going to vote for Ciattarelli or not, because they were clearly against anyone associated with Trump,” Collazo said. “But they honestly weren’t sure if they were going to vote for Sherrill, because they didn’t feel like they knew her.”
Sherrill’s campaign and backers tapped local leaders like pastors, nonprofit executives, and elected officials, and held events specifically catered to Latinos, said Vereliz Santana, the coordinated campaign’s Latino base vote director, who grew up in Camden.
They spread the message through Spanish-speaking door knockers and Spanish-language ads, which Camden City Councilman Falio Leyba-Martinez, a Democrat, called “beyond impactful.”
“She made it normal for people to understand that you don’t speak English,” he said.
That was not always the case for New Jersey Democrats, according to Patricia Campos-Medina, a vice chair of Sherrill’s campaign and senior adviser for Sherrill’s Latino and progressive outreach. Democratic operatives in the state justified saving money on bilingual messaging over the last decade since most Latinos speak English, she said.
“But the problem is that Latinos have to hear that you are talking to them … otherwise they feel like you’re just ignoring them,” she added.
And it’s not just speaking Spanish. Showing cultural competency — such as using Puerto Rican slang or phrases like “reproductive healthcare” instead of “abortion rights” — is also critical, she said.
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Latino organizers in Camden said that community members who supported Trump or did not vote in 2024 have become frustrated by the high cost of living, slashed federal funding, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s tactics. Even those for whom immigration was not a top priority or who supported Trump’s plan to deport people who committed crimes have been dismayed, they said.
Camden City Council President Angel Fuentes said videos circulating of immigrants being detained locally have been particularly resonant.
“You can see the tears of these individuals,” he said. “You know, it’s so inhumane. I mean, I really want to use the f-word, but it’s so inhumane how they’re treated. Latinos … we are all family. We should not be treated like this.”
Turnout is typically lower in cities with large numbers of lower-income voters and voters without college degrees, like Camden. But Democratic investments in the city seemed to make a difference this year.
Camden saw a 63% increase in turnout compared with 2021. The jump in the city is more than double the 28% turnout increase statewide compared with the last race for governor.
The city still has relatively low turnout compared with the full state, however, with only 26% of voters casting ballots in Camden compared with 51% statewide.
Camden County as a whole was closer to the statewide turnout rate at 50%, but the county’s increase of 32% from 2021 was smaller than the city’s growth.
Sherrill visited the city of Camden in July — early in her general election campaign — for a visit to CAMcare, a federally qualified health center that treats underserved communities, and went on to discuss it on a national podcast the next day.
She did not return until October, at which point she visited the city three times in the lead-up to Election Day. Her campaign also held a rally outside city lines at the Camden County Democratic Party headquarters in Cherry Hill that Santana said was planned to feel “authentically Latino.”
As part of their “scientific” strategy, Sherrill visited less-Democratic areas in the summer and early fall to try to win over swing voters before pivoting to bluer places like Camden, where they needed to motivate already-registered Democrats to cast their ballots, said Om Savargaonkar, the coordinated campaign director for Sherrill’s campaign and the New Jersey Democratic State Committee.
As Sherrill zigzagged the state, a massive coordinated effort was underway to draw a strong Democratic turnout, bolstered by national funding from the Democratic National Committee.
Sherrill’s coordinated campaign — the state party operation that worked with the campaign — made at least 19.5 million phone calls, door knocks, and text messages statewide, which was roughly 13 times more than the 1.5 million made for Murphy’s coordinated campaign in 2021, Savargaonkar said.
Out of a roughly $12 million statewide investment, about $2 million to $3 million went directly to county parties to supplement the statewide turnout efforts, Savargaonkar said of the coordinated campaign.
Democrats routinely score landslide wins in New Jersey’s working-class municipalities.
Both Murphy and Harris posted double-digit margins in these communities, but Sherrill took that strong base and supercharged it. She won nearly two-thirds of the vote in the lowest-income municipalities and in places where fewer voters have college degrees — improving on Murphy’s and Harris’ performances by as much as eight percentage points.
In Camden, fewer than one in 10 adults have a college degree and the typical household has an annual income of $40,000. That’s in a state where nearly 45% of residents are college-educated and with a median income of about $100,000.
Sherrill’s campaign reached Latinos in Camden who voted for Trump last year because they believed he would make life more affordable but were having buyer’s remorse, organizers said.
Her campaign spoke with locals about the negative impacts of Trump’s tariffs, engaging with everyone from distributors and manufacturers to local business groups, Santana said. Local surrogates also discussed Trump’s cuts to benefits and programs that help the community, said Camden Mayor Victor Carstarphen.
And Sherrill’s focus on affordability and Trump resonated more broadly.
She also won among voters in wealthier places, including the middle 50% of towns by median household income — places where Ciattarelli won four years ago and where Trump fought Harris to a near-draw last year. Like Harris before her, she managed to win the very wealthiest areas comfortably.
While the city of Camden saw Sherrill’s biggest improvement over Harris in the county, her second-largest improvement came in nearby Runnemede, a borough in Camden County, where the typical household’s income is virtually identical to that of the state.
Trump made gains last year among younger voters across the country, and New Jersey was no different. The president won about 37% of the vote in the state’s youngest 25% of municipalities, beating Ciattarelli’s 2021 performance with that group by more than three percentage points even as he lost the state by nearly double Ciattarelli’s 2021 margin.
This year, Sherrill reversed those inroads, improving on Harris’ performance by nearly eight points in places, including Camden, where the median age is 33. (New Jersey’s median age is 40.)
Sherrill’s campaign made partnering with social media influencers a key part of her strategy as more young people focus their attention online. She appeared on national podcasts and in TikTok videos, on Substack, Reddit, and Instagram — often with Democratic-friendly hosts. Her team provided special access to influencers and held briefings with them.
Sherrill appeared on 18 podcasts from January to October 2025, according to Edison Research, while Harris appeared on only eight during her campaign from July to November 2024.
Her coordinated campaign’s statewide Latino effort also had its own social media, spearheaded by Frank Santos, a 33-year-old Camden resident of Puerto Rican and Nicaraguan descent. Santos and other staffers on the Latino outreach team represented different sub-demographics of “the larger Latino monolith,” Santana said.
Organizers also catered their conversations to different sub-demographics through smaller and more “organic” events, she said, noting that younger voters were generally more progressive.
“If you’re trying to connect with a community, knowing that you yourself reflect and represent that community, I think it makes the world of a difference,” she said.
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I set out deliberately this week to make an astronomical event photo for this space. I’ve done Santa and a menorah already this winter so I wanted to give props to the solstice.
With the days getting shorter leading up Dec. 21, I first thought of sunset occurring earlier. But I worked nights for many years and photographed many of those.
Then I thought of all the time I’ve spent in our city’s historic district. (I love history, as the following paragraphs will attest, and I expect I’ll be there even more in 2026 as we celebrate the Semiquincentennial.)
I recalled a Chippendale armchair in the Assembly Room of Independence Hall made by Philadelphia cabinetmaker John Folwell in the years after our country was born. George Washington sat in the mahogany chair with a gilded sun carved into it for three months in 1787 as he presided over the Constitutional Convention.
Benjamin Franklin is credited with immortalizing the chair at the close of the convention, expressing his optimism for the future of the new nation while looking at the design.
”Often and often … I have looked at that {sun} … without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting, but now at length, I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun.”
That’s why I decided to get out early this week to find a photo at sunrise, as I look ahead to the future.
However, speaking of history, there is also an established tradition of news organizations looking back at the end of the year.
So here is the Inquirer photo staff’s “Year in Review.” A visual record of the challenges, achievements, and the everyday moments of a year lived in full.
Since 1998 a black-and-white photo has appeared every Monday in staff photographer Tom Gralish’s “Scene Through the Lens” photo column in the print editions of The Inquirer’s local news section. Here are the most recent, in color:
» SEE MORE: Archived columns and Twenty years of a photo column.
A Powerball ticket purchased in Northeast Pennsylvania netted a $1 million prize in the lottery’s Christmas Eve drawing.
The ticket — which matched all five of the white ball numbers, 04, 25, 31, 52, and 59, but not the Powerball number, 19 — was sold at Pittston Candy & Cigar Co. in Luzerne County, the Pennsylvania Lottery announced Friday in a news release.
Pittston Candy & Cigar Co. could not immediately be reached by phone Friday evening.
The lottery game’s three-month stretch ended Wednesday, after a ticket matching all six numbers was sold outside Little Rock, Ark. The $1.817 billion, or $834.9 million cash, jackpot was the second-largest in U.S. history and the largest Powerball prize of 2025, according to www.powerball.com.
Two other big-winnings tickets, worth $100,000 each, were sold in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, and Morris County, New Jersey.
Nearly 335,000 Powerball tickets purchased in the commonwealth won varying dollar amounts, and 10 New Jersey players won $50,000 prizes, according to the respective lottery commissions.
The prize followed 46 consecutive drawings in which no one matched all six numbers. Powerball’s odds of 1 in 292.2 million are designed to generate big jackpots, with prizes growing as they roll over when no one wins.
Another $20 million, or $9.2 million cash, will be up for grabs at Powerball’s Saturday drawing.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
A New Jersey actor was indicted earlier this month on attempted murder and other charges in connection with accusations he shot a woman in the face following a traffic dispute.
Ernest W. Heinz, 46, of Port Republic, faces 31 charges, including aggravated assault and weapons infractions, stemming from the September incident in Galloway Township, court records show.
Heinz’s attorney did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday. In a statement to People, a lawyer for Heinz said, “he denies the allegations as reported and will contest them through the legal process, where the facts — not speculation or headlines — will determine the outcome.”
The statement continued: “We ask that the public and the media respect the presumption of innocence and allow this matter to proceed in court.”
In an interview with The Inquirer shortly after the shooting, Maritza Arias-Galva said she was on her way home from the grocery store Sept. 11, when she tried to merge into another lane of traffic.
Arias-Galva said another driver blocked her from merging, then pursued her. The driver then confronted her near Stockton University and fired at least one shot into Arias-Galva’s vehicle, NJ Advance Media reported. Prosecutors alleged at a detention hearing that Heinz told Arias-Galva, “I’m going to kill you,” according to the outlet.
Heinz has had minor roles in television and films, but it appears his acting career sputtered after 2014; his IMDB profile lists credits in the 2011 biographical drama J. Edgar, The Sopranos, and two Resident Evil video games.
He is scheduled to make another court appearance in January, records show.
The sunshine and relatively mild weather on Christmas in the Philadelphia region and South Jersey will likely be long gone by Friday afternoon, the National Weather Service said in its forecast on Thursday.
Snow, likely no more than 1 or 2 inches, is expected to accumulate between 1 p.m. and midnight Friday, and become mixed with sleet and freezing rain after 4 p.m. New snow and sleet of 2 to 4 inches is possible between 1 and 4 a.m. on Saturday, forecasters said.
“The heaviest precipitation will be the late afternoon on Friday, and it will start to wind down on Saturday,” said Nick Guzzo, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Mount Holly.
Temperatures are expected to range from the high 20s to low 30s both days. A mild wind of 5 to 10 mph is also expected.
Due to the forecast, PennDot is urging drivers to avoid unnecessary travel. The agency expects vehicle restrictions to begin at 10 a.m. Friday on all interstate highways, banning school buses, commercial buses, motor coaches, motorcycles, and many types of commercial vehicles from the roads.
Speed limits will be restricted to 45 mph. Updates will be available on the 511PA traveler information website.
Friday could be the second measurable snowfall of the season so far. A storm that swept across the Philadelphia region on Dec. 14 left 4.2 inches of snow at Philadelphia International Airport. Some suburban communities in Bucks and Chester Counties reported more than 8 inches.
Flying out of PHL and want to know how things are looking at the airport? Check out The Inquirer’s end-of-year PHL tracker to check for delays and cancellations.
The widows of a photographer and a pilot who died when a 6abc-operated helicopter crashed in 2023 have filed a lawsuit against Airbus, alleging a defect in the aircraft caused the fatal incident.
Rosalyn Collins, the widow of pilot Monroe Smith, and Elaine Dougherty, the widow of photographer Christopher Dougherty, filed the lawsuit in Common Pleas Court in Philadelphia last week, just days before the two-year anniversary of the crash.
The TV station’s Chopper 6 crashed in December 2023 in Wharton State Forest in Burlington County on its way back to Northeast Philadelphia Airport.
The reason for the crash, the suit says, was a known defect in the design of the 2013 American Eurocopter AS-350A-STAR helicopter, which was manufactured by Airbus. The French aviation company has been warned for decades that the aircraft’s hydraulic system, which assists the pilot in controlling the helicopter’s rotor blades, was “defective and dangerous” and could leave pilots with few options, according to the complaint.
“If the system fails, the pilot must manually operate the helicopter and counteract enormously strong aerodynamic forces by brute strength,” the complaint says. “Manual control of the AS350B2, however, is exceedingly difficult, and often impossible.”
Chopper 6’s hydraulic system previously failed in 2019, and part of it was replaced by Sterling Helicopters, a Bucks County-based company that is also named as a defendant in the lawsuit. Sterling also inspected the hydraulic system in 2021, the suit said.
But the system failed again on the evening of the 2023 crash, which the suit says was “evidence” that the system’s parts were not designed to ”withstand such continuous use.”
Airbus declined to comment. Sterling did not respond to a request for comment.
The lawsuit also names as defendants companies that produced parts of the helicopter’s hydraulic system.
A January 2024 National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report on the crash found “no anomalies of the engine” that “would have precluded normal operation.”
Smith, 67, from Glenside, and Dougherty, 45, from Oreland, worked for U.S. Helicopters, a North Carolina company that owned the aircraft 6abc was leasing.
The duo had been part of the Action News team for years, the station said following the crash.
“Two really genuine people who have your best interest at heart and you can feel it,” Nicholas Thomas, a former colleague, said of Smith and Dougherty after their deaths.
The lawsuit asks for an unspecified amount of compensatory and punitive damages.
Philadelphia is unlikely to have a white Christmas, but snow is on the horizon for the weekend.
The National Weather Service on Wednesday afternoon issued a winter storm watch for much for eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The watch will be in effect from Friday afternoon through Saturday morning.
From Friday into Friday evening, forecasters are “near 100% confident” that most of the Philly area will get some form of winter precipitation, according to the National Weather Service. But exactly what type of precipitation, how much, and the precise timing remains uncertain.
“We’re likely going to see an impactful winter storm,” said Eric Hoeflich, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Mount Holly.
Philadelphia may get between 1 and 4 inches of snow Friday into the night, according to the National Weather Service. Light precipitation could linger into Saturday morning.
Forecasters expect between 1 and 3 inches of precipitation in northern Delaware, far southern New Jersey, and Southeastern Pennsylvania. Eastern Pennsylvania and much of New Jersey may see 4 to 7 inches. Actual precipitation totals and types, however, may vary. Some areas could get snow, sleet, freezing rain, or plain rain depending on temperatures and timing.
Ahead of the expected weekend storm, Philadelphians are unlikely to be greeted with snow-dusted streets on Christmas morning.
After sun and high temperatures in the 40s on Wednesday, Christmas Day may also bring above-average temperatures, with highs forecast in the mid-40s and a potential for light showers in the morning.
It will be “not great weather, but not bad either for late December,” according to forecasts from the National Weather Service.
Friday’s winter weather event would mark the second measurable snowfall of the season in Philly. The snowstorm that swept across the Philadelphia region on Dec. 14 dumped 4.2 inches of snow at Philadelphia International Airport. Some suburban communities in Bucks and Chester Counties recorded over 8 inches.
If you’re planning to travel on Friday evening, expect impacts to your plans, as roads may get snowy and icy.
Flying out of PHL and want to know how things are looking at the airport? Check out The Inquirer’s end-of-year PHL tracker to see how delays and cancellations are stacking up.
Hello, Cherry Hill! 👋
With the new year just over a week away, we’ve rounded up a dozen ways to celebrate 2026 in and around town. Also this week, a Cherry Hill man and correctional officer has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing an inmate, a new Dunkin’ has been approved at a former bank, plus the school district has named a new director of Title IX, special projects, and student services.
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The countdown to 2026 is on, and there’s no shortage of ways to celebrate the end of one year and the start of another.
We’ve rounded up a dozen celebrations nearby, including a winter wonderland-inspired party, concerts, a casino night, and fireworks over the Delaware River.
Check out the events happening in and around Cherry Hill here.
Cherry Hill native Ken Goldin returned to the small screen yesterday when the third season of his Netflix show King of Collectibles hit the streaming service.
Goldin has been collecting pop culture and sports memorabilia for years, selling over $2 billion worth of goods, something he’s now chronicling for the show. His clients include celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Drake.
Some coveted items on this six-episode season include a soccer jersey worn by Lionel Messi as a child, plus several Kobe Bryant and Allen Iverson items.
Read more about what’s in store for this season of King of Collectibles here.
🎄 Friday After Christmas Party: Keep the holiday vibes going at this dance party, where attendees are encouraged to wear themed attire. ⏰ Friday, Dec. 26, 9 p.m.-2 a.m. 💵 $24.71 📍Vera
🎶 Finish That Song: This roller skating event includes a holiday-themed, finish-the-lyric music challenge and holiday prizes. ⏰ Monday, Dec. 29, 1-9 p.m. 💵 $12, plus $6 skate rental 📍Hot Wheelz
🍿 Cozy Movie and Hot Cocoa: Kids in sixth through 12th grade can catch a screening of The Nightmare Before Christmas and enjoy a cup of hot chocolate. Registration is required. ⏰ Tuesday, Dec. 30, 7-8:30 p.m. 💵 Free 📍Cherry Hill Public Library
This Woodcrest Colonial has undergone a number of recent updates to give it a sleek, modern interior. The eat-in kitchen features an island, white cabinetry, stainless steel appliances, and a green tile backsplash that connects to a step-down family room with a brick fireplace. The first floor also has a living room, and there’s a partially finished basement downstairs. All four bedrooms are upstairs and have wood flooring. There are open houses Saturday from 10 to 11:30 a.m. and Sunday from noon to 2:30 p.m.
See more photos of the home here.
Price: $759,000 | Size: 2,465 SF | Acreage: 0.26
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