Dover News

DENVILLE - There was a lot of doing at the Morris County School of Technology recently.

SAYREVILLE - Police have identified a 23-year-old Morris County woman as the pedestrian who was struck by a car and fatally injured early last week while crossing Route 35.

First it was two glasses of vodka mixed with Diet Sprite. Then it was four drinks.

DOVER : The Housing Partnership will hold its next session of the seminar series, 'Step by Step to Home Ownership,'' from 5:45 to 9:30 p.m. Nov.

DOVER - Fourth-graders at the Academy Street School are participating in a pen pal program with Dover resident Oxmani Corona, a Dover police officer who is serving in Iraq, and the other soldiers in his unit.

DOVER - A painting known as "The Peaceful Charm of Woods and Water" by Kate Sutton that hung in the Dover Public Library for 75 years has been restored and some of its history uncovered.

On Parsippany Blvd. on Oct. 28, at 3:14 p.m., Officer Sean Jasiecki conducted a random license plate inquiry on a 2003 Honda Civic and discovered that the registered owner had a suspended driver's license as well as two active warrants.

DOVER - Two more transportation companies have been charged with operating illegally in Dover, police said.

DOVER - Police are seeking information on a man who attempted an armed robbery at the Morris Thrift store sometime around 11:30 a.m. Capt.

MORRISTOWN -- A new commuter rail tunnel under the Hudson River will double the number of trains into Manhattan and boost mass transit from and through Morris County, the county board of transportation was told Tuesday night.

DOVER - A 64 year-old North Carolina man who suffered a heart attack behind the wheel died after crashing his van into a Route 46 auto repair shop early Saturday morning, authorities said.

ROCKAWAY - Two Dover men were charged Nov. 4 with burglary and theft to the Rockaway Garden Center on Route 46, police said late Sunday.

Dominic Ciardi retired from his job and had some time on his hands last year, which is how a project began to remember three Dover High School classmates killed in the Korean War.

A knowledge of wrestling and organizational skills are required. Applicant must be 18 or older.

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.