NJ Town to Vote on Liquor Sales

Township voters will decide whether liquor and alcoholic beverage will be allowed in their historically dry community.

The Township Council recently approved plans to place a referendum on the November ballot, asking whether the sales should be allowed in this Burlington County community for the first time since the late 1950s.

Proponents argue that the change would bring new restaurants and other ratables to town, but critics say that's not a good enough reason to change the laws.

"Certainly we support economic development," The Rev. J. Evan Dodds, Sr., pastor of the Church of the Good Shepherd, told The Trentonian of Trenton for Thursday's editions. "But we do not support the idea that must come through the sale of alcoholic beverages."

Willingboro is among 43 New Jersey municipalities where liquor sales are banned.

Author: 6 ABC-AP