Bloomsbury News

An aging dock jutting into the Musconetcong River stands in contrast to this bucolic Hunterdon County hamlet where people take pride in their graceful surroundings.

ALEXANDRIA TWP. Fire in Basement A basement fire caused by a faulty electrical outlet broke out at the home of the Beebe family on Schick Road on Monday about 10 p.m. Two adults and two children were waiting outside the house when emergency responders arrived.

Seven north county municipalities that are considering shared police services are again seeking bids for a study of the proposal.

Dorothy Weaver of Holland Township announces the engagement of her daughter Jennifer Carvino of Bloomsbury to Bob Menz of Flemington.

If Superman's help were requested in Easton, Clark Kent might have a difficult time finding a place to change into his hero outfit.

A former North Carolina trucker who pleaded guilty to the murder of a Bloomsbury, N.J. woman has waived his right to preliminary hearings in the suspected killing of one Pennsylvania woman and attack of another.

On May 20, volunteers celebrated 35 years of "spinning their wheels" for the Phillipsburg Area Meals on Wheels during a luncheon held at Flynn's on the Hill.

THIS OLD BARN TALKS through Avery Gavornik, 10, of Tewksbury Township, the county Mini-Historian for 2009.

In local races in Hunterdon County, incumbents Ed Post in Lebanon Township and Alan Johnson in Delaware Township lost Republican nominations for Township Committee.

Through portraits of a few carefully chosen Victorian figures, and with the aid of a deft prose style, acidic with irony, Lytton Strachey, in Eminent Victorians , set out to squelch the Victorians.

The following people graduated Saturday from Warren County Community College. They are members of the Washington Township school's largest class ever.

Gov. Jon S. Corzine's administration has proposed suspending property tax rebates next year for all but seniors and the disabled to close an expected shortfall in the 2010 budget.

A trucker who pleaded guilty to violent attacks in New Jersey and Massachusetts is in Pennsylvania to face charges that he killed a woman and attacked another in 2007.

A Phillipsburg man accused of threatening to blow up the Warren County Court House Annex made the disturbing phone call about 3 p.m. Friday, authorities said.

A Bloomsbury woman who stole almost $400,000 from the Muller Toyota dealership in Lebanon Township drew a three-year state prison sentence Friday in state Superior Court.

New Jersey will fund half of the expansion and renovations to Phillipsburg's wastewater treatment plant, town officials said Tuesday.

A Hunterdon County grand jury has decided that sufficient evidence exists for the prosecution to proceed with cases against the people listed below.

To celebrate its 20th year, Raritan River Music Festival will present audience favorites of its early years, plus a gala extravaganza featuring Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angela's Ashes.

To the Editor: I keep hearing that Mark Peck, mayor of Bloomsbury, has political aspirations.

That was the dilemma faced by voters throughout Central Jersey yesterday in the annual school board election.