Sparta News

The Township Council plans to introduce on Tuesday night a master plan amendment that would allow property near Lake Grinnell to be rezoned.

The state's annual release of school test scores last week highlighted that while statewide scores are rising slightly, poor and minority students are still falling behind.

The 10th annual concert for Pass It Along will be held Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at Farmstead Golf and Country Club in Lafayette.

Photo by Tracy Klimek/New Jersey Herald - Pallbearers are seen outside Our Lady of the Lake Church in Sparta carrying the casket of former Pope John High School football coach Victor J. Paternostro after his funeral service Feb.

Evening performances are at 8 pm, Sunday matinees at 3 pm Performances are at The Parsippany Arts Center, 1130 Knoll Road, Lake Hiawatha.

The church pews filled with more than 200 quiet mourners, who paid their final respects to a Sussex County legend Friday.

The Sparta Police Department has issued a traffic advisory for Thursday and Friday on all roads near Our Lady of the Lake R.C. Church on Sparta Avenue in anticipation of large crowds for the viewing and funeral of Vic Paternostro, former head football coach at Pope John XXIII Regional High School.

The Green Team is looking to "create a local food buzz" with the first Andover Township mid-winter farmers' market Feb.

Sussex County residents, including State Sen. Steve Oroho, R-24th Dist., are among those planning to attend Gov.

Faced with deficits at the facility estimated to be $1 million or more for this year, the Sussex County Board of Chosen Freeholders has put on its agenda next week a resolution taking the first step toward the sale of the nursing home.

Sparta joined a growing list of schools that will move the school board election to November and forgo a public vote on budgets under the cap.

The following comes from Dover Business College: Dover Business College is pleased to announce that Maryjean Hollenstein of Oak Ridge, Nazish Niazi of Dover, and Juliana Villavicencio of Sparta, recently passed the examination of the American Association of Medical Assistants to become Certified Medical Assistants.

When your dad bets you that you can't do something, chances are you're going to darn well try to prove him wrong.

Photo by Tracy Klimek/New Jersey Herald - Eighth-graders from schools in Sussex County visit Chris Land's engineering class Wednesday at Sussex County Technical School in Sparta to see what is taught during four years in the trade.

A college junior completed a back-flip every day in 2011, to win a $100 bet he made with his father.

Hundreds of mourners waited outside a Penn State campus spiritual center Wednesday to pay their last respects to the late Joe Paterno as public viewing hours for the football coach wound down.

The Township Council will introduce an ordinance at the next meeting that would amend the master plan to allow property near Lake Grinnell to be rezoned for economic development.

A proposed quarry near Lake Grinnell may soon take another step forward if the Township Council votes in favor of amending the master plan to allow the property to be rezoned for economic development.

A 20-year-old Sparta man was arrested Monday and sent to Sussex County Jail after he posted a death threat on a juvenile girl's Facebook page, township police said.

She delivers the lines of poetry with sympathy and intensity. Her eyes and voice inflection sobers any audience as she recites the 45-line poem, telling of the corruption and devastation in Nicaragua and the hopefulness of the poet.