Long Valley News

Commencement at Gill St. Bernard's School in Peapack-Gladstone was conducted June 6. The school does not recognize a valedictorian or salutatorian.

LEDGEWOOD - RoNetco Supermarkets recently awarded 12 scholarships totaling more than $18,000 to associates or dependents of associates from the seven Ronetco ShopRite supermarkets in northwest New Jersey.

Kenneth Roehrich of Long Valley, a retiring board member of the Morris County Soil Conservation District, has worked with water and dirt his whole life.

WASHINGTON TWP. - St. Luke's Parish in Long Valley has opened its new preschool - a nursery school set in a Catholic faith environment that accepts children of all denominations.

Christopher Jerry knows the difference a bicycle helmet can make in an accident.

According to the National Restaurant Association, restaurants in the United States will do $1.5 billion in sales on an average day in 2009.

The Washington Township Community Events Organization is sponsoring the annual fireworks festival June 27 at Long Valley Middle School.

For the first time in a decade, residents and visitors will find fun and fresh food at Somerville's farmers market today.

The following officers will be installed for 2009-10: President, Arlene Kryspin of Chester Township; vice president, Virginia Savell of Chester Township; treasurer, Jo Abondolo of Chester Township; recording secretary, Suzanne Youngman of Washington Township; corresponding secretary, Diane Murray of Washington Township; lion tamer/tail twister, ...

WASHINGTON TWP. -- A volleyball fundraiser will be held June 24 at 7 p.m. at West Morris Central High School to benefit Long Valley resident Raeanna Gutkowski, who is undergoing treatment for a rare bone cancer.

On the heels of federal corruption charges, Assemblyman and former Perth Amboy Mayor Joseph Vas has been indicted again by a state grand jury, this time for allegedly taking gifts from city vendors and laundering money for his unsuccessful run for Congress.

The Pastime Club in Mendham is bringing the Original Olde Tyme American Circus to town on May 29 at Mendham Borough Park, on the corner of Mountain and Park avenues.

'Game Plan' -- May 24 at 3 p.m. at the Black River Playhouse, Grove and Maple streets, Chester.

Morris County book clubs, take note. There is a new novelist in our midst. Every chapter of 'A Year Sabbatical,' by 47-year-old Amy Price, seems to beg: 'Discuss.' The cheerful, soft-spoken author, who lives on a bucolic street in Long Valley with her husband, Barrett Jody Price, has been penning the book -- sometimes intensely, sometimes slowly ...

Business name: Send Out Cards Type of business: online greeting card company Owner-distributor: Kathy Reidinger Address: 181 Parker Road, Long Valley Phone: 876-0101 Web site: www.sendoutcards.com/47626 Hours of operation: varies Founded: June 2008 Why did you start the business? My children are getting older, they are 14, 12 and 10 years ...

The Long Valley Junior Women's Club will hold an open house coffee for those interested in learning about the club from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Friday at the Oasis Cafe, 11 Schooley's Mountain Road in Long Valley.

Theresa Scott, of Long Valley, New Jersey, shows an American Saddlebred horse named 'A Magic Surprise' during a horse festival at the Hunterdon County Farigrounds South County Park in West Amwell Township.

A vendor fair will be held at the Long Valley Presbyterian Church on June 5 to help pay medical expenses for a local boy with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy .

A workshop offering Internet job search tips will be presented at the Washington Township Public Library, 37 E. Springtown Road, Long Valley, at 1 p.m. Thursday.

A Long Valley landowner is asking the U.S. attorney for New Jersey to investigate a $10,000 payment made by the New Jersey Highlands Council in 2005 to Chester Township, its landlord.