Hunterdon County News

Engineer Thomas Mathews at the May 7 Freeholders meeting.Terry Wright  Thomas Mathews, an engineer for Hunterdon County for more than 15 years, is becoming next director of the Department of Public Works.

"For about eight years, or more, we've put that on the agenda every meeting," Mayor Julia Allen said.

Flemington Classic Cars continues to gather community support and spirit. Local business owners, Mayor Erica Edwards, residents, and volunteers are pictured in front of the Historic Court House on Main Street next to Robert Outwater's 1940 candy apple red custom Ford Pick-up. Photo by Robert Heil of Black Lab Studio.

As of 7:30 a.m. traffic is moving without delays on Route 78 East through Hunterdon County, according to Google Maps.

A New Jersey court has upheld the conviction of a Texas man who was arrested in 2009 with 21 guns in his car.

"The August fair was a summer staple, not just for Hunterdon residents, but for people throughout the state and some Pennsylvania residents as well." RARITAN TWP .

The Hunterdon County Family Success Center has scheduled new programs during the weeks of May 27 and June 3. All programs will be held at the FSC, located at 3 East Main Street in Flemington.

Three hundred cans of blasting powder and 450 dynamite cartridges killed one man, demolished a dozen buildings at Prallsville, and more or less wrecked the down of Stockton.

Delaware Valley Regional High School will hold its combined junior and senior prom tonight at the Hunterdon Hills Playhouse in Hampton.

Trooper shows the divers where to look for the body of a missing Somerville man found in Spruce Run Reservoir in Union Thursday morning.

A canoeist has been missing since Wednesday afternoon - and state troopers are currently using helicopters, foot patrols and boats to search the area in and around Spruce Run Reservoir, a spokesman says.

Otherwise traffic is moving smoothly, with no accidents causing tie-ups, according...

A New Jersey State Trooper and a bomb sniffing dog enter Delaware Valley Regional High School in Frenchtown around 3:45pm December 13, 2012, after a bomb scare.

Gov. Chris Christie holds a news conference earlier this year at the Metropolitan Family Health Network in Jersey City, N.J. New Jersey's property tax bills have been rising more slowly since Chris Christie became governor, but that does not mean slow growth for what many homeowners actually have to pay, according to new data released by the state.

HILLSBOROUGH - Few people are excited about the costs of automobile insurance, but drivers in Central Jersey do have something to be cheerful about.

READINGTON TWP. - Two Raritan Borough men have been indicted by a Hunterdon County grand jury on charges related to the theft televisions from WalMart.

An overturned truck on Route 31 in Ewing at Interstate 95 will make for a slow afternoon ride through that area for those headed for Hopewell, Pennington and Hunterdon County.

Police and prosecutors put out a plea Tuesday for additional witnesses to come forward with information about a daring jewelry store robbery in Hunterdon Co., N.J. Five men, armed with handguns, took over the Roman Jewelers store on Route 12 in Flemington on May, 5, ordering customers to the floor, police said.

The Saddle Brook Board of Education Monday introduced and approved a five-year contract for its new superintendent of schools.

Young leaders from eight area schools have raised over $6,300 for Hunterdon County non-profit America's Grow-a-Row in just one month.