Newton News

NEWTON a ' Two Newton men have been charged with stealing a 200-pound parking pass machine that had been permanently affixed in the Adams Street Parking Plaza, police said.

Two unemployed Newton men were arrested this afternoon for stealing a Parking Pass machine in town, authorities said.

The Morris-Sussex Vicinage has downsized the law libraries at its superior courthouses in Morristown and Newton to save $120,000 next year.

Last year, 648 new winter coats collected through the New Jersey Herald's Gift of Warmth drive were distributed to those otherwise facing a cold and bleak winter season.

Alex Cable, owner of Thorlabs, stands in the Advanced Imaging Lab at his Andover facility.

Mary Ellen Vichiconti, an Independent candidate who lost her bid for a Vernon Township Committee seat in the Nov.

Sussex County residents filled 20 trash bags with expired and unused medication Saturday during the first-ever statewide disposal program of its kind.

Limecrest Road or County Route 660 is closed north of Newton Sparta Road accodring to the New Jersey Herald.

Photo by Amy Paterson/New Jersey Herald Sussex County Historian Wayne McCabe talks about the changes on Spring Street in Newton from 1890, bottom, to 1906, top, and the present.

If you've visited the Sussex County Veterans Monument in Newton square recently you will have noticed the beginnings of a garden that will surround the monument and honor the six branches of the military -- Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Coast Guard and Merchant Marine.

Photo by Amy Paterson/New Jersey Herald A copy of Grey's Anatomy, philosophy by Aquinas and Aristotle and a book on Buddhism lie across Matthew Tully's dining room table in Wharton as he talks about the sequel to his recently published novel "The Chimera Seed." The book was a finalist for the USA Book News' 2009 National Best Books Award.

1 deadline yesterday for a plea bargain agreement to be reached in the case of a Sussex County man charged with killing his wife.

PB&J has expanded its store space in The SpringBoard Shoppes, adding new lines of casual wear, as well as offering the well-established Carlisle Collection Quarterly Trunk Shows to its line of fine handbags, scarves, jewelry and other accessories.

Photo by Amy Paterson/New Jersey Herald Pope John seniors Greg Moore, of Newton, right, and Dillon White, of Newton, try to make space for more food in the Skylands Ride bus they stuffed with food for the Sussex County Social Services food pantry Tuesday.

A 26-year-old Sussex County man was sentenced to four years in state prison for following a woman and her 12-year-old daughter to the woman's vehicle parked at a shopping mall and stealing her purse during a violent struggle, the county prosecutor's office said today.

People gathered in Newton yesterday to remember a Sussex County Community College student who died in a car accident.

File Photo by Kelly Hill/New Jersey Herald Marge McCabe, administrator of the Sussex County Board of Elections, performs public testing on the iVotronic voting machines in preparation for last yeara s presidential election.

Photo by Daniel Freel/New Jersey Herald Guests of Project Self-Sufficiencya s a oeProject 200a recognition dinner Wednesday have the title screen of a slideshow projected on their backs as they make their way through the buffet line.

If you're in search of some gastronomic treats tomorrow, October 31st, you might give Andre's Restaurant & Wine Boutique a try.

A teenage delegation from small-town Germany has touched down in small-town America.