Highlands News

Sidewalk curb cuts for handicap access on the southbound portion of the newly constructed Route 36 Highlands-Sea Bright bridge will be installed this month, said Tim Greeley, spokesman for the state Department of Transportation.

More than 600 students at Highlands Elementary School are being checked for head lice following 11 reported cases since the end of October, school officials said Thursday.

Carolyn Schwebel, an advocate for the American Disabilities Act, is expected to raise the issue of curb cuts in the sidewalks on the Route 36 Highlands-Sea Bright bridge during the borough's biweekly bridge meeting 9 a.m. Friday.

I'd like to comment on the Highlands article by Curtis Leeds and the letter by Steve Balzano.

In a second-floor, exhibition room, Lee Ellen Griffith stopped at an enclosed case and swooned over the large spoon inside it.

Land preservation efforts in the Highlands region are set to get a $4 million boost under legislation that President Barack Obama is expected to sign.

Congress has allocated $4 million in its pending Interior Department appropriations bill for Highlands preservation funding, the most money allocated since the Highlands Conservation Act was signed into law in 2004.

New Jersey Department of Transportation Commissioner Stephen Dilts today announced that the first half of the new Route 36 Highlands Bridge would be opened to traffic on Friday, October 30.

On Halloween night, the owners of the Windansea restaurant are requesting patrons bring food.

The issues for the five candidates running for two three-year terms on the Borough Council Tuesday are taxes, flooding, road construction and traffic from the Highlands-Sea Bright bridge project, the infrastructure and the Highlands Business Partnership.

Having a birthday drink with Eleanore Huson in 2008 is something Mayor Frederick J. Rast always will remember.

THE ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS Public Library will close for several weeks as part of the anticipated renovation and expansion of the Atlantic Highlands Borough Hall.

An Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey hotel is offering a chance to win a free holiday stay to people who have lost their jobs.

A Spanish teacher in Bergen County has been named the 2009-2010 New Jersey Teacher of the Year.

The New Jersey Highlands Council on Thursday awarded a $25,000 TDR Feasibility Grant to Long Hill.

The Borough Council meeting has been rescheduled from its regular Wednesday night time slot to Thursday night due to the St.

On Nov. 3, voters will have the choice to protect drinking water quality by voting "yes" for the Green Acres, Clean Water and Farmland Preservation Act.

The Chester Lions Club will host Elizabeth Carlson, founder of Freedom Horse, at the club's meeting at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct.

The fifth annual Atlantic Highlands Front Porch Chilifest raised $4,500 to make repairs to the Strauss Mansion on Prospect Circle and increased awareness of the local historical society, organizers said.

A little more than a month after opening a new transit village development in Morristown , its historic neighbor -- The Morristown Station -- is getting an upgrade.