06/02/11 BRANCHVILLE -- Faced with a $3.2 million cost overrun that would have to be paid for by Branchville sewer users, the Borough Council held back on awarding any contracts for the borough-wide sewer system project Wednesday and decided to continue negotiations with the Sussex County Municipal Utilities Authority to bring the cost down.
05/28/11 The number of Sussex County families seeking food from area food pantries has increased by more than 50 percent since a year ago. Pantries depending on the generosity of donations are seeing items leaving their shelves as soon as they come in.
05/27/11 NEWTON -- Citing loss of at least one major sponsor, uncertainty over finances and strained internal differences, organizers of the Sussex County Horse Show want a state judge to dissolve the Sussex County Farm and Horse Show Association and let the state fair and the horse show go their separate ways, with the horse show taking sole ownership of the show area at the fairgrounds in Frankford.
05/17/11 NEWTON -- A 58-year-old man died early Tuesday afternoon minutes after he was pulled from his burning apartment on the fifth floor of Brookside Terrace Apartments.
04/30/11 The alpaca, the kindlier, gentler cousin of the more aggressive llama, has become one of the fastest growing livestock animals in New Jersey. Coveted for its high-quality fleece and eco-friendly lifestyle, the alpaca is quickly becoming the herd animal of the next generation.
04/27/11 Selective Insurance Group, Inc. today reported its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2011. ? Net income for the quarter was $0.39 per diluted share and operating income was $0.32 per diluted share. ? Net investment income, after tax, increased 20% to $32.1 million compared to first quarter 2010. ?
04/26/11 The New Jersey dad traveling with his kid and a bag filled with the boy's toys was actually a heroin smuggler using the child as a diversion, police said.
04/26/11 A New Jersey father has been arrested and charged after police say he attempted to use his 5-year-old child as a diversion during a drug distribution scheme where he hid packets of heroin in the child's toy bag.
04/22/11 In the unlikely setting of a commercial center near the Greyhound bus station in Mount Laurel is an unpretentious building with the name Richard Rothstein on the door. A few feet past a small reception area, the sensory overload begins.
03/20/11 PORT JERVIS, N.Y. -- A low-cost spay/neuter surgery for cats only will be available at the Humane Society of Port Jervis during the month of April. The shelter is located at 202 Route 209.
02/18/11 The South Carolina State Ethics Commission is using the shame strategy to round up political entitie
01/21/11 Lance Cowart, 44, address unknown, is the man police believe stole $5,620 worth of tools from the Route 209 bypass construction site in Marshalls Creek on Jan. 6.
01/20/11 The man who stole thousands of dollars worth of equipment from a Poconos construction site earlier this month was tracked down and arrested Thursday in New Jersey, police said.
12/29/10 If Santa Claus delivered a new plasma screen television this past weekend, your next course of action may be to toss out that old set you bought in 1980.
12/11/10 Newton Tammie Horsfield, president of the Sussex County Chamber of Commerce and Glen Vetrano, former Sussex County freeholder director, will join the Karen Ann Quinlan Memorial Foundation next month.
11/11/10 A prescription drug disposal day will be held Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Local collection sites are at Walmart on Route 23; Sussex County Municipal Utilities Authority, Route 94, Lafayette; Walmart, Route 94, Newton; Hardyston Municipal Building, 149 Wheatsworth Road, Hardyston; Medicine Shoppe, 50 Hopatchung Road, Hopatcong.
10/17/10 New Jersey's peak bumper crop won't be in the fields, it will be on roads.
10/13/10 Over the past decade Senior EVP Richard Connell has driven the modernization of Selective Insurance Company of America's systems, from infrastructure and core systems to agent-facing technology and underwriting capabilities.
10/13/10 And says it is lacking in Sussex County, By Jennifer Jean Miller
08/05/10 Selective Insurance Group, Inc. announced the following appointments by its subsidiary, Selective Insurance Company of America: |