Blairstown News

Stanhope Borough Police Officer Kurt Eller is thankful for his job every day. Not a surprise considering he previously worked in Stillwater Township, home of the most heavily debated police department in Sussex County.

The driver of a stolen car that crashed and left a passenger dead during a police pursuit Tuesday in Warren County was charged with aggravated manslaughter, troopers said today.

A fatal crash has closed Route 94 at Station Road in Knowlton Township. According to reports from the Breaking News Network , police were chasing a vehicle that was driving 100 mph, heading north toward Blairstown.

Bargains on Broad Street, the NORWESCAP Food Bank's Thrift Shop, 201 North Broad St., will be hosting a 50-percent-off sale on all items from Saturday through July 18.

Photo by Christina Tatu/New Jersey Herald Elizabeth Ploshay of Chatham, left, Janet Cornish of Harding Township and Mary Roszkauski of Blairstown, far right, hold signs and listen to a speaker during Saturday's Independence Day Tea Party.

Most schools are out for summer. Hardwick Township School District is out completely.

A Blairstown man who allegedly failed to appear in court on drug and criminal mischief charges is the fugitive of the week in Warren County.

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WHARTON -- The Main Street Improvement Committee and borough officials have announced the establishment of a weekly farmers market to begin on Saturday.

Frank T. Reilly, whose passion for trains was such that he was dubbed 'Choo-Choo' by his peers in Morris County's transportation department, said once that he came up with the idea for the Lackawanna Cutoff.

Once, the scoutmaster of my Boy Scout troop left me in temporary charge of our summer campsite as he went to fetch something from his car.

The Federal Transit Administration has completed an environmental assessment that could pave the way for commuter train service from the Poconos to Hoboken, N.J., according to a report in The Star-Ledger. The proposal to restore passenger rail service is seen as a way to relieve congestion on Interstate 80.

With so many divisive arguments going on -- from the handling of the Great Meadows Regional School District budget to the state of the national economy -- organizers of Liberty Community Day on Saturday hope to provide residents some relief.

While other Warren County municipalities begin farmers' markets later in June or July, Hackettstown will start two of its own this week.

A suicidal township woman pointed a loaded shotgun at two police officers Wednesday, court records show.

Hardwick Township Committeeman James Perry used his elected position to threaten the job of a police officer after getting a May 6 parking ticket, court records show.

Blairstown is facing at least two and possibly three rather expensive projects. The oil tank remediation at the community center , oil tank remediation at the Walnut Valley firehouse and repair of the Paulinskill dam.

Police across the Delaware River in New Jersey arrested two people Friday on charges they operated a marijuana growing facility in Columbia, N.J. Police said when they seized the home at 32 Knowlton Road in Knowlton Township, they confiscated 124 marijuana plants and five pounds of processed marijuana.

State police set out to Mark Hines' house on Knowlton Road Friday morning to arrest him on two outstanding traffic warrants.

Area vendors are invited to sell goods and services at open-air farmers markets this year in Hackettstown, Washington and Blairstown Township.