Vernon News

NAI James E. Hanson, a leading New Jersey-based commercial real estate firm, has been named as the exclusive sales agent for a .42-acre parcel of land that includes a free-standing 585-square-foot retail facility at 30 Mount Vernon Street on the corner of Lincoln Avenue in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey.

A 16-year-old hiding in an upstairs closet during a Sparta home break-in was able to call police and give descriptions that helped link three people to the crime, as well as to an attempted burglary in Vernon, police said.

A Sussex County sheriff's corporal with almost 20 years of experience in the department will run for county sheriff in 2010.

The Highlands Council approved a 16-mile underground gas pipeline Thursday that cuts through West Milford and under the Monksville Reservoir - the second time in six months that it okayed a major energy project through the environmentally-sensitive region.

Photo by Daniel Freel/New Jersey Herald Annika Szalkowski, 21/2, of Fredon, center, cries as she is held by her father, Richard, right, while receiving a swine flu vaccine shot from nurse Dawn Hall, left, during an infant and toddler swine flu vaccine clinic Sunday at Sussex County Community College.

The first snow of the season fell in the county in the midst of autumn colors on Oct.

By ROBERTA FUGATE and SETH AUGENSTEIN newsroom@njherald.com VERNON - "Stranglehold." "Politics as usual." "Good old boy network." "Arrogance." That's the buzz around the township since last month's filing of a racketeering lawsuit against a police officer, the mayor and the chairwoman of the Republican party - as well as the Police Department, the ...

Sussex County, NJ Focus You can find local events in Sussex County from the Sussex County Democratic Party Calendar and the Sussex County website .

Five people were hospitalized today after inhaling toxic fumes that emanated from food steamer tables in the Vernon Township High School cafeteria, authorities said.

Republicans Harry Shortway and Michael Pier and Independent Sally Rinker were the winners in the hotly contested five-way race for three seats on the Vernon Township Council.

Just in time for flu season, a Vernon author has published a book aimed at teaching children proper etiquette for sneezing.

Nina and Jonathan White own a 200-acre farm in Vernon, New Jersey, where they raise about 30 mixed breed cows, including the Bobolink Black, a result of crossing modern dairy breeds with Irish Kerry cattle.

Sussex County, NJ Focus First I list some events...then I highlight some Sussex County organizations and the Sussex County Food Co-op. Here are some events from the Sussex County Democratic Party Calendar and the Sussex County website : November 01, 2009 9th Annual Salute to Military Veterans - Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 2 pm.

Photo by Anna Murphey/New Jersey Herald Nurse Linda Spear administers the swine flu nasal vaccine to Cameron Gaechter, 11, of Wantage, Tuesday at a clinic at the A&P in Wantage.

The Vernon Township Land Use Board will continue a public hearing on a cell tower proposed for 3 Silver Spruce Dr.

In responding to a questionnaire from the Vernon Taxpayers Association sent to candidates for the Vernon Town Council, candidate Harry Shortway apparently copied some of his answers from other sources.

By TOM HOWELL JR. thowell@njherald.com Gift cards will be a popular present this holiday season, but some companies charge a monthly fee to recipients who let them linger in their stockings for too long.

's snow reporter in southern Vermont and a youtube sensation with her Mount Snow Minutes.

A winter weather advisory has been issued here for accumulations of one to four inches over higher elevations in the state's first snowfall of the season.

By SETH AUGENSTEIN saugenstein@njherald.com A federal court will hear arguments Monday that New Jersey municipalities cannot keep local laws making public drunkenness an arrestable offense.