Gladstone News

A blaze that broke out in an older home at 56 Mendham Road on Tuesday afternoon appears to have been sparked by overheated electrical cables leading to an electric stove, said the Somerset County Prosecutor's office.

Taste of Crete in Hillsborough will host a free holiday business networking breakfast from 8 to 10 a.m. Dec.

Back in the day, Natirar was a grand estate owned by the king of Morocco. Then it caught the eye of British billionaire Richard Branson.

About a week before its projected opening, The Virgin Spa at Natirar has launched a Web site, www.Natirar.com, with information and reservation contacts for its Ninety Acres culinary center, the first phase of the $90 million resort.

FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE, 6:50 p.m. Nov. 23. Secundino Pena, 27, of Peapack-Gladstone, was charged with being a fugitive from justice after police investigated a hit-and-run accident at the intersection of Somerset and Dupont streets.

Sir Richard Branson, the travel and entertainment mogul, is opening a resort in New Jersey next week with a cooking and wine school and a farm.

Billionaire, hot-air balloon enthusiast and Knight of the Order Sir Richard Branson has converted Natirar, the King of Morocco's former Peapack, NJ, estate, into a luxury resort, spa and culinary center.

Visual and performing artists at Matheny Medical and Educational Center will express themselves Saturday at a reception open to the public.

Although it is expected to be one of the country's premier destinations for relaxation and entertaining, less than a month before its public opening, the Ninety Acres Culinary Center in Peapack-Gladstone more closely resembles a beehive of intense work activity.

The Friends of the Mendham Borough Library are teaming with several local businesses to host a fashion show fundraiser on Thursday, Dec.

One thousand doses of the H1N1 flu vaccine have been delivered to the Bernards Township Health Department and are to be distributed free of charge to residents listed in high-risk categories during early November clinics scheduled in Bernards, Mendham and Bernardsville, said Lucy Forgione, the department's health officer.

Marcela Dunham is new to the township library, but she's not new to her area of expertise - adult programming for public libraries.

Three years ago, the organizers of the first Green Community Festival may have been a little ahead of the curve, but by now the "green" movement has definitely caught on.

While serving as a Township Committeeman in 2005, Democrat Paul Drake gave developer K. Hovnanian suggestions on how to gain approval of a 700-unit residential development on land owned by Hillsborough Properties, according to a courtdocument Thursday filed by the township.

Thank you to Practical Horseman for making available articles about the 2009 George Morris' Horsemastership Training Session.

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The Junior Women's Club of Somerset Hills is distributing business cards urging women to get a mammogram, in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month.

Author Amiri Baraka, who turns 75 next week, reads his poetry at Skippers Pub in Newark.

Students from the Willow School in Peapack-Gladstone, who visited the Bernards Inn's kitchen garden as fourth-graders last May, returned on Friday, as fifth-graders, to give the garden its own final exam of sorts and discover that the herbs and vegetables they planted in spring had passed the tests of summer.

Gladstone, NJ September 22, 2009 - Peapack-Gladstone Bank will officially celebrate the opening of its new Summit-Short Hills branch by hosting 'Fall Funfest' on Saturday, September 26.