Warren County News

One thing the candidates have in common is an aversion to expanding the budget. Republican John DiMaio, a former Warren County freeholder and owner of a construction company, was appointed to his seat in the Assembly in February when Marcia Karrow was appointed to the Senate seat vacated by Leonard Lance, who was elected to Congress.

Several Warren County elections left incumbents out in the cold Tuesday after nearly 49 percent of voters cast ballots.

Route 78 cuts through New Jersey. More accurately, it cuts through the many New Jerseys.

With Halloween a day away, a masked man with a long gray beard bounced through the crowd of political troops, waving a white sign in support of Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie.

ALLAMUCHY a ' Mountain Ridge at Panther Valley, a collection of three-bedroom townhomes rising in Allamuchy Township, is preparing this fall to welcome its initial residents.

A new name will be added to the Warren County War Memorial this year. It will be that of a 28-year-old staff sergeant in the U.S. Army Reserve who died not in combat but in a 2007 murder in Norfolk, Va.

The following people were indicted this week by a Warren County grand jury in New Jersey Superior Court in Belvidere, according to court records: -- Erik C. Groover, 38, of the 400 block of Newlins Road in Forks Township, is charged with unlawfully using a credit card belonging to Dwayne Heater on May 9 in Phillipsburg and unlawfully impersonating ...

Author Junot Diaz reads from "Wildwood" a chapter of his Pulitzer-prize winning novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" at Bergen Community College, October 19, 2009.

With the economy on tenterhooks and people wondering how much more expensive it might become to live, work and own a home in New Jersey, voters in Warren and Hunterdon counties have reason to seek out candidates with a background in public budgeting, especially budget-cutting. Only two of the four Assembly candidates in the 23rd District, both ...

Registration is still open for the second annual Central New Jersey Council, BSA Stride for Scouting, a 5K Run/Walk and 1-Mile Run/Walk. All net proceeds from the event, which will take place on Sunday, October 25, 2009 at Thompson Park in Monroe Township, will go the improving programs for the over 18,100 Scouts in the Central New Jersey Council.

With a municipal water system in need of $1 million to $2 million in repairs and new employee costs, borough officials are close to finalizing its sale to Aqua New Jersey.

A New Jersey-wide collection next month of old prescription drugs aims to eliminate the temptation that comes with keeping dangerous, addictive medications around the house.

The gathering started like a party, with tables covered with red and blue confetti, children loudly blowing on noisemakers and state Sen.

Organizers of the ninth annual One Stop job fair are cautiously optimistic that the economy will begin to improve this year, but for many of the job seekers, the reality remains -- jobs are fewer and competition is tougher than ever before.

Photo by Anna Murphey/New Jersey Herald From left, John Skehan, Neil Morris, John Updike and Todd Lanka of the Lost Ramblers perform Saturday at the second annual Old Mine Road Folk Life Festival on Spring Street in Newton.

Downtown Newton will be a hub of activity Saturday with three consecutive and simultaneous events.

Editor's note: Fourth of four-part editorial. Gannett New Jersey's 20-point plan for easing the tax burden on New Jersey's overwrought homeowners focuses on four areas: reining in public salaries and benefits, reforming the tax system to make it more equitable, operating government more efficiently and capping public spending.

A Warren County father is suing a national network of human services providers and state agencies after his 19-year-old son drowned in the Delaware River in 2007, a report in the Express-Times said.

A Hackettstown man was arrested for allegedly harassing students as they left the Hackettstown Middle School, police said today.

The United Way of Warren County annual fundraising campaign is under way, with the Washington-based agency accepting donations and 30 area businesses conducting fund drives of their own.