Stanhope News

By BRUCE A. SCRUTON bscruton@njherald.com STANHOPE - While work continues to lay a new railbed, ties and rails, the borough has asked NJ Transit to declare the crossing at County Route 602 as a "quiet zone" when trains start running on the revitalized Lackawanna Cutoff.

John Harrigan, president of Vietnam Vets of America Wallkill Valley Chapter 1002, along with fellow Vietnam veteran, Walter Hazelman, meet over breakfast at the Hampton Diner with Mari Russo-Farris and Bob Caravan, from Lynnes Nissan West of Stanhope.

A Stanhope man admitted recently to possessing heroin, discovered on him after he ran a stop sign in Hopatcong, according to the Sussex County Prosecutor's Office.

An interim superintendent will be hired at the Board of Education's closed session tonight at 6 p.m. at the Byram Township Intermediate School library.

Two Northampton Community College students were assaulted with a tire iron during a fight Saturday night at a South Side house party, Bethlehem police report.

An armed robbery Wednesday of the Exxon station on state Route 206 is just one of a batch of recent armed robberies that have drawn attention to the changing nature of the region, and the quick apprehension of the suspects demonstrates the close-knit relationship among municipal and state police departments, authorities said Thursday.

A gas station was robbed and the attendant tied up with Duct tape by two men and a teenage boy with knives who were later stopped on Route 80 and found to be in possession of stolen cash and food, police said.

A reckless-driving complaint led to the arrest of a 20-year-old Stanhope man and a 16-year-old Netcong boy at about 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Jan.

Nearby Sussex County has a lot of what you'd expect-cows, farms, towns your friends have never heard of.