Sparta News

Police officers from several towns responded Friday night to a house party where more than 100 people had gathered including many who were underage and were drinking.

Michael Salsano, 24, of Sparta, admitted to a judge on June 4 that he illegally entered a home in that town on January 12, according to the Sussex County Prosecutor's Office.

A township resident is accused of stealing radiators and a golf cart bed from a golf course.

Tune the orchestra, cue Gene Kelly and get out the slicker and umbrella. There's as much as 4 inches of rain coming today -- at least according to meteorologists.

According to the 2012 Census, the Asian American population of Paramus is about 22%, compared to about 5% nationally .

By the end of the first week of June, Hopatcong and Sparta were drying out from the first major rain storm of the annual hurricane season, and if the past two years are any indication, it won't be the last.

Maranzano Thanks Hopatcong for Cooperation Retiring schools' chief leaves at end of the month, expresses gratitude to governing body.

A judge lowered the bail for Jerry Montgomery, an alleged member of the Bergen County burglary ring dubbed the new James Bond Gang, after Montgomery questioned why he, a black man, was receiving higher bail than "Caucasian men in this jail."

Dina Mikulka, Esquire, was recently honored by Project Self-Sufficiency with a Mosaic Award, indicating that she had gone to great lengths to offer her services on a voluntary basis to the agency's low-income clients during the past year.

In response to the severe weather experienced state-wide over the past few years, the Sparta Township Council hasapproved the creation of a local Community Emergency Response Team , a group of trained volunteers who augment the regular emergency response.

The Sparta Board of Education has decided to interview five of the 18 candidates who applied for the district's open superintendent position.

Five independent candidates have thrown their hats in the ring for the November election, creating contests in races where there would have been none.

A tractor trailer snapped a telephone pole, backing up traffic on Route 15 in Sparta for miles, police said.

An evening of arias from popular operas will be performed by soprano Shannah Timms and pianist Diana Greene at Christ Episcopal Church on Saturday, June 22nd at 7:30 p.m. "A Pretty Night: Siren Songs" will include selections by Mozart, Dvorak, Verdi, Wagner, Floyd, and Bernstein.

With the county's registered voters comprising more than twice as many Republicans as Democrats, the outcome of several hotly contested races - including, at the county level, contests for freeholder and surrogate - will all but determine the outcome of the general election in the fall.

Submitted photo - Gianna Macones, right, of Sparta and Kayla Komnath, second from right, of Hardyston, took irst and second respectively in vault.

More than 100 participants gathered yesterday, for the first annual "Off the Beaten Track Health Screening & Wellness Event," on Saturday, June 1. The scenic Kittatinny State Park was the setting for the event, and the first 5K for the groups that coordinated it.

Take a look at some of the best in photographs sent to the Suburban News during the week of May 27-31, 2013.

The Sparta Township Mayor and Council are tired of waiting. And if they don't get a response from Service Electric Cable Television soon they might step up their plan of attack.

Sparta residents, and visitors to the township, took time out on Monday to remember those who gave their lives, and celebrated Memorial Day with a parade.