Dover News

Pumpkin carving? Check. Leaf-peeping? Check. Apple picking? Check. Think you missed out on autumn's outdoor rites of passage? Check again.

A Mount Arlington man is being held on $25,000 bail for allegedly attacking a 19-year-old with a knife, sending him to the hospital for 12 stitches, police said.

A bear climbed up a willow tree in Dover, N.J. earlier this afternoon where it was seen eating bark.

WHARTON - Twins, who graduated from Dover High School, recently celebrated their 90th birthday with friends and relatives coming from three states to join them.

Traffic on Route 46 in Dover has been narrowed to two lanes while authorities figure out how to get a bear out of a tree.

BY BY MINHAJ HASSAN STAFF WRITER DOVER -- A large bear was tranquilized while it lolled on a tree branch after it wandered through residents' yards in town and along Route 46 Thursday morning, police said.

Casio just rolled out two new Baby-G watches, and this time they added a little bling to make your wrist sparkle.

Literacy Volunteers of Morris County will offer tutor training workshops on Nov.

Whether you're a family of four looking for kid-friendly scares or an adrenaline junkie in search of blood-curdling screams, you needn't look further than your own Morris County backyard this month.

A church group is in trouble with a New Jersey town for feeding the homeless in a park.

DOVER - Joann Tyler and the Missionaries of God were back handing out food to the homeless at JFK Park this week after being told they no longer could use facilities at Hope House, where they had been running an evening soup kitchen for more than four years.

The Salvation Army in Dover is preparing for the opening of the holiday season, beginning with a big turkey and trimmings give-away, which will enable 350 people to walk away with a box containing all the necessities for a Thanksgiving dinner.

Two Randolph police officers who fixed a drunken driving arrest for a relative of another officer, have been allowed to avoid prosecution by losing their jobs and enrolling in a one-year diversionary court program called pre-trial intervention.

To the Editor: Thank you Daily Record for tenaciously seeking the truth about the Dover mayor and board of aldermen paying an outrageous sum to our former town administrator.

In yet another shameful waste of taxpayer money, officials in Dover Township, Morris County, signed off on a buyout package worth nearly $250,000 for an administrator who had been in the job for just 2 1/2 years.

A New Jersey man is in jail after he reportedly drove to Pennsylvania and attacked his estranged wife on Wednesday morning with a hammer inside her home in Pike County, state police said.

It took a few tugs to get the pretty, print cloth down but the effect was lovely as the recently restored painting by Kate Sutton was revealed and once again took its rightful place on a wall of the Dover Library.

To the Editor: I read the article in the Daily Record suggesting a 20-point tax plan to ease the tax crunch.

Samba Nation invaded the Westin Hotel in Morristown Sat. Oct 3 to spread Carnaval fever amongst the 150 guests at a fundraiser for the Morris County Organization for Hispanic Affairs.

Provident Bank has hired ALAN D. SEGARS as vice president and investment management officer of its Wealth Management Group.