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Those planning on attending the Great Swamp Watershed Association's (GSWA) 7th annual Great Swamp Great Music festival benefit on Sunday, May 19, will have to reset their GPS devices.
PEAPACK-GLADSTONE - Borough officials say they will try one more method of cutting the Liberty Park Canada goose population before turning to euthanasia.
BEDMINSTER TWP. - In its latest effort to combat an area-wide rise in home burglaries and car thefts, the township is seeking to acquire automated license plate readers (ALPRs).
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Boy and Girl Scouts from Bernardsville and Bernards Township gathered at Holy Cross Cemetery in Basking Ridge on Saturday, May 11 to perform the solemn, pre-Memorial Day tradition of replacing American flags posted at the graves of area military veterans.
Editor’s note: To have your community activity listed in this calendar, please email Editor P.C. Robinson at probinson@newjerseyhills.com.
PEAPACK-GLADSTONE – It was a double header for the ages.
BERNARDS TWP. – Ridge High School’s baseball team (15-7) defeated Mendham, 4-2, on Saturday, May 11. The Red Devils plated four runs in the sixth inning.
BERNARDSVILLE – Sixth-seeded Bernards High School took on 11-seed Rutgers Prep in the Somerset County Girls Lacrosse Tournament first round on Saturday, May 11, with the winner advancing to meet third-seeded Mount St. Mary of Watchung in the quarterfinals. The game is scheduled for Tuesday, …
Even your little local library needs some tender, loving care once in a while.
TO THE EDITOR: Engraved above the main entrance of the United States Supreme Court are the words “Equal Justice Under Law.” The Supreme Court is the final arbiter of the law and as such is charged with ensuring that this promise to all the American people is fulfilled. But is it?
TO THE EDITOR: As read to the Bernards Township Committee Meeting on April 23: As a resident of, and contributor to, our community since 1992, the visual pollution has steadily increased. During the previous township meeting, two residents, Nancy D’Andrea and Anna Forzani, spoke about signs …
TO THE EDITOR: I read a book about birds recently that provides lessons for us today. The book “Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle” by Thor Hanson, an evolutionary biologist, is a primer about how debates can get off track. In the 1860s, Creationists and Darwinists heatedly debated…
Brundage Park Playhousewill hold auditions for Disney’s “Moana Jr.” on Friday, June 7, and Saturday, June 8, at the theater at 2 Bungalow Lane off of Carrell Road in Randolph Township.
Along Normandy’s shoreline free children now play
The East Coast’s largest Memorial Day Book Festival, Flemington Summer Book Fest & Colossal Tent Sale, will return from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day over Memorial Day Weekend, Friday, May 24, through Monday, May 27, at 24 Central Avenue in the heart of Flemington’s Stangl Art and Cultural …
Entering Utah from lush “colorful” Colorado, was like traveling through a moonscape. The land was a gray sandy-like desert with tufts of green growing intermittently and small hills rising and falling. Signs for towns, which must have been far in the distance said, “no services.” The only st…
William L. Keefauver, 100, of Basking Ridge, died peacefully at his home on May 9, 2024.
James Campbell Stover, 72, of Warren Township, and formerly of Peapack, died peacefully on Tuesday, April 23 at Morristown Medical Center with his family by his side.
Ann Joan McNamara (nee Hayden) passed away peacefully on April 11, 2024 at the age of 89.
Patricia Ann Meelheim, 93, passed away in Zephyrhills, Fla., on May 1, 2024.
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