Hackettstown News

On March 20th and 21st, the Dean Of Chess Academy will be hosting the First "Only New Jersey" Championship .

Starting May 1, Terence McKenna will be paying an additional $82 per month to ride the train between Dover and Manhattan under NJ Transit's proposed 25 percent fare increase.

Hackettstown will be singing the blues this weekend. Eight different blues-oriented performers will take the stage Friday and Saturday at Centenary College and other venues around Hackettstown in the first Centenary Mini-Blues Festival.

An Independence Township man already charged with pointing a gun at one woman and having sexual contact with another now faces charges linked to a third alleged victim, court records show.

Blues bassist Niles Terrat, of Hackettstown, will kick off Peter Karp and Sue Foley's "He Said - She Said" tour March 12 at the Centenary Mini-Blues Festival.

HACKETTSTOWN -- Centenary College will mark St. Patrick's Day with a lecture by Professor Breandan Mac Suibne entitled, 'One Day the World Will Break Your Heart? The Irish in America'' at 7 p.m., March 10 in the Front Parlours of the Edward W. Seay Administration Building.

The words rock 'n' roll and Sunday Mass usually don't appear in the same sentence.

Jacksona s Brian Hamman defeated Tyler Kozimor of Hackettstown via pin in 2:32 in the preliminary round of the New Jersey State Wrestling tournament held in Atlantic City.

MORRIS PLAINS - Alison Ash of Hackettstown announces the engagement of her daughter, Kathryn Ash of Morris Plains, to Stephen Pope of Pine Brook.

Warren Hills' Jon Slack tries to break down Phillipburg's Ryan Fazzi during the heavyweight championshipat the Region 1 wrestling tournament in Walkill Valley.

HACKETTSOWN -- Mark Doty, Centenary College's 2009-2010 Gates-Ferry Distinguished Visiting Lecturer and winner of the 2008 National Book Award, will read from his current work at 8 p.m., March 9 in the Little Theatre located in the Edward W. Seay Administration Building.

Winter is cheerleading season, as teams compete at regional events building up to the InterNational Championship in Orlando, March 19-21. The groups, known as all-stars, are not affiliated with schools but with gyms, places where young women perfect their tumbling skills and work on perfect pyramids.

HACKETTSTOWN - A state police trooper suffered minor injuries after he lost control on an ice-covered road and slid into a telephone pole Thursday night, authorities said.

One of the many attributes that Pontiac owners enjoy is superb driving dynamics.

The Hackettstown Business Improvement District is offering apparel and a banquet in advance of the town's second annual St.

The impetus to combine two township fire companies at the end of the month came from the volunteer firefighters, say company and township officials.

Dr. Frank and Linda Ricker of Lebanon Township announce the engagement of their daughter Ashley Laurel to Steven William Cannon of Tewksbury Township.

C.T. Tucker retired from being a full-time musician in 1990, he opened a Long Valley eatery called Tucker's Breakfast King.

A Clinton man was beaten and robbed of $3,400 of cash and jewelry Saturday outside of the Smiles Go-Go Bar after he confronted a couple of men spitting on his friend's Ferrari, police said.

HACKETTSTOWN - The New York Times best-selling authors of "The Nanny Diaries," will return to Centenary College March 24 to speak in the George H. Whitney Chapel in the Edward W. Seay Administration Building.