NESTLÉ DRUMSTICK BRAND SEEKS DYNAMIC YOUNG HEROES – If you know a selfless child or teenager who has made a difference in the lives of others, here’s a way to reward their dedication and determination. The Nestlé Drumstick brand is celebrating young people who have accomplished amazing things – both large and small. Until September 15, adults can nominate outstanding kids as part of the Nestlé Drumstick Heroes Contest. Fifty winning kids will be awarded the ultimate summer celebration, complete with enough Nestlé Drumstick sundae cones and a fun-filled party package to host an unforgettable event for up to 50 family and friends.Entries will be judged on the child or teenager’s accomplishments, as well as the originality and creativity used to achieve their goals. Contest entry forms are available to download at http://www.drumstick.com. Submit your story (150 to 500 words), along with the completed entry form, describing why the child deserves to be honored as a Drumstick Hero. Adults over the age of 18 may nominate children between 6 and 17 years of age who are residents of the United States. Official contest rules are available online. All entries must be received by September 15. Winning children will be notified by phone and/or mail.
The Hunterdon County Mental Health Board invites interested persons to a Public Hearing regarding the State of New Jersey, Division of Mental Health and Addiction Service’s plan to redirect Hunterdon County Adults under 65 years from Hagedorn Psychiatric Hospital to Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital.
Persons from the state will be available to present their plans and hear public comment on Thursday, September 2, 2010, from 6 to 8 pm at the Hunterdon County Rt. 12 Complex, Building #1 Assembly Room, 314 Rt 12, Raritan Township.
It is the policy of Hunterdon County to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities, with advance notification of need. Persons requiring accommodations must call Kay Strain at (908) 788-1253(Voice/TDD), 5 days prior to the meeting date.
For more information, please call Cathy Zahn, Mental Health Planner, Hunterdon County Department of Human Services, P.O. Box 2900, Flemington, NJ 08822 (908) 788-1372 or e-mail czahn@co.hunterdon.nj.us.
The Rutgers Master Gardener Helpline provides advice to the gardening public as one of the many volunteer efforts of the Rutgers Master Gardeners of Somerset and Hunterdon Counties. This
unique sevrice is provided by new graduates of the Master Gardener program along with experienced, certified Master Gardeners of the Rutgers Cooperative Extension. The Helpline’s trained Master Gardener volunteers answer Hunterdon residents’ garden and landscape questions at 908-788-1735 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Monday and Wednesday. Gardeners with questions may also visit the Rutgers Cooperative Extension office at 4 Gauntt Place off Route 31 just north of Hunterdon Medical Center in Raritan Township during those hours.
Calvary Episcopal Church in Flemington NJ http://www.calvary-episcopal.com/ will resume regular Sunday worship schedule on Sunday, September 12th. The Sunday worship schedule is 7:30AM, 9:00AM and 11:00AM.
Jo Coudert, who lives in Califon, NJ, has her tenth book coming out this month from Harlequin Press.
The Dog Who Healed a Family is a collection of animal stories that previously appeared in major magazines, including the Reader’s Digest, McCall’s, and Woman’s Day. All of the stories are true and share a common theme of the love and caring that can exist between people and animals as varied as a parrot, a goose, and a javelina.
Coudert’s previous books include Seven Cats and the Art of Living and The Ditchdiggers’s Daughters, a New Jersey First book. She is also the author of four plays produced off-Broadway and over one hundred magazine articles.
The NJDEP’s Division of Fish and Wildlife has issued a Special Wildlife Management Permit to control feral hogs in Deer Management Zone 25. Hunters do not need a separate permit to pursue hogs in this zone. They need only have their regular hunting licenses and deer permits necessary to hunt deer during the applicable seasons. Feral hogs may be harvested anywhere in the zone. Free-ranging feral hogs of either gender and any age are legal game while deer hunting during the Fall Bow, Permit Bow, Six-day Firearm, Permit Muzzleloader, Permit Shotgun and Winter Bow seasons, provided the hunter has not reached the bag limit for the deer season which is open and for which the hunter has the required license and deer permits. For more information on the hunting of feral hogs visit http://www.njfishandwildlife.com/news/2010/feralhogs10.htm.
Readington Rockets fastpitch softball will hold tryouts for their 14U, 12U & 10U teams dates as follows: 14U on 8/31; 12U on 9/1; 10U on 9/2. One tryout will be held for all levels on 9/8. Rain date for all dates is 9/9. The Rockets softball program consists of play in a fall development league, indoor winter training, spring 2011 training and tournament play and summer 2011 league and tournament play. Eligibility is as follows: 14U born in 1996 or later; 12U born in 1998 or later; 10U born in 2000 or later. TAll tryouts will be held at Hillcrest Park on Hillcrest Rd in Readington. Registration begins at 6 pm and tryouts begin promptly at 6:30 pm. Players should bring glove, cleats, bat and batting helmet. Bats and helmets will be available if needed. For more information call Readington Recreation at 908-534-9752.
Marines of Detachment 927 will hold a membership drive and fundraiser on Saturday and Sunday August 21 and 22, 2010 at the Super Wal-Mart in Flemington and Wal-Mart in Whitehouse Station from 9-5. Funds raised for this event will go to assisting Marine Corps League Detachment 927 and assisting local charities in Hunterdon County. For more information, please call Mark Paradis at 908-236-8464 or go to our web site at http://www.hcmcl.org.
PRE-SCHOOL FOR FOUR YEAR OLDS ~ SEPTEMBER 2010 ~ Applications now accepted! A full-time, certified, district teacher and full-time classroom assistant(s) teach our programs. A speech therapist is available in the classroom several days per week to enhance the speech skills of all students. A certified school nurse attends each day.
Preschool programs implement the State recommended Creative Curriculum, which prepares students for a successful transition into Kindergarten. Students must be 4 years old by October 1, 2010 and must be toilet trained. Programs meet 5 days/week and follow the district calendar. Students DO NOT need to reside within the school district. Parents are responsible for providing transportation and paying tuition to the
Board of Education at a rate of $300 per month for 10 months. Copper Hill School – 9:30—11:45 a.m. Barley Sheaf School – 11:45—2:00 p.m. Parents seeking to enroll their child should call: Flemington-Raritan Regional School District, Department of Special Services, (908) 284-7680.
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A 15-year-old Clinton Township boy, a student at North Hunterdon High School, will be charged with making terroristic threats and criminal mischief following a physical altercation at the school Wednesday morning.
During the 8 a.m. altercation, the Cl…
The Hunterdon County Polytech Career Academy and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey cordially invite you to the Ribbon Cutting ceremony to celebrate the first enrolled high school class in the Polytech Career Academy of Health Scie…
The Hunterdon County Chamber of Commerce will be holding an September Leads Exchange on Wednesday, September 15th from 7:15 to 8:30 a.m. at the Hampton Inn, 14 Royal Road in Flemington.
Continental Breakfast will be available compliments of the Flemin…
The Hunterdon County Chamber of Commerce will be holding a September after-hours on Tuesday, September 14th from 5:00 to 7:00pm at Destinations Personal Fitness Coaching, 47 Maple Avenue, Flemington. This event is sponsored by Destinations Personal …
John Trontis will leave his position as director of the Hunterdon County Department of Parks and Recreation next week after 10 years to become assistant director for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Division of Parks and Forestry….
The Hunterdon County Mental Health Board invites all interested persons to a public hearing from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 2 at the Hunterdon County Complex, Building #1 Assembly Room, 314 Route 12 in Raritan Township regarding the plans for the New Jersey Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services to redirect Hunterdon [...]
A state appellate court has sided with Hunterdon Medical Center in its challenge of the property tax status on the part of its Hunterdon Health and Wellness Center on Route 22 dedicated to physical therapy.
The medical center was appealing a tax court…
The Township Committee will hear public comment on a bond for new ambulance after a judge ordered the panel and rescue squad to attend mediation about ownership of the old ambulances.
On Friday, Superior Court Judge Peter Buchsbaum in Somerville affi…
The beating death of an inmate at a local prison is likely gang-related, authorities said.
Five suspects were charged Friday with first-degree murder in connection with the fatal beating of an inmate on Aug. 22 at Mountainview Youth Correctional Faci…
Join Jim Rose on Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 7:00 pm at the Hunterdon County Library on Route 12 to learn how meditation can help you deal with stress, anger and conflict in your life.
Stress, anger and conflict are part of life in today’s world, but you don’t have to live with them 24/7. [...]
Michael Medea accepted an award of recognition on behalf of Garden Associates Landscape Architecture, Inc. in appreciation of dedicated services and efforts for revitalizing the grounds of the Samuel Fleming Castle Museum in 2009. The Award was presented on July 23 by the Fleming Castle Board of Trustees. Michael Medea headed the Garden Beautiful Charity [...]
TEWKSBURY — A truck fire has closed down two lane of traffic on I-78 eastbound in Tewksbury.
As of 1:21pm, a tractor trailer fire on I-78 eastbound approaching Exit 24 – CR 523/Oldwick oadd in Tewksbury Township has closed the two right lanes of three lanes, according to the New Jersey Department of Transportation and [...]
Knitters, crocheters, weavers and spinners from all over New Jersey are looking forward to the 16th annual Garden State Sheep Breeders & Fiber Festival, set for Sept. 11 and 12 at the Hunterdon County South County Park in the Ringoes section of West Amwell, on Route 179 South, just off of Route 202.
The first Sonic Drive-in restaurant in Hunterdon County will begin sending car hops skating out to customers parked in individual drive-up stalls at 9 a.m. tomorrow.
Sonic is known for its ice cream shakes, sundaes, tater tots and hot dogs known as coneys, and will celebrate the grand opening with specials on loaded burgers and half-price [...]
Bad location, looking at it from a business point of view. I’d hate to see one more attration slowing down traffic, but it’s a little far out of town. Should have been by the circle.
Am excited since I am a ‘Sonic Virgin’ but am not pleased with idea of more traffic and congestion in an already bad area. It is in an area of 31 that is one lane ea way… Am glad that it will not impact flow of the circle, since that is treacherous enough without help…
BY WALTER O’BRIEN • STAFF WRITER • AUGUST 27, 2010
FLEMINGTON — Keith Inhoff, 22, and Starr Inhoff, 25, both of Brown Street, were charged Thursday with child abuse following an investigation by borough police and the Hunterdon County Prosecutor’s Office.
Keith Inhoff was also charged with second-degree endangering the welfare of a child and [...]
The Hunterdon County SWAT team took a Clinton Township man, who had allegedly barricaded himself in his home with a gun, to a medical center.
The man was reportedly intoxicated and had a loaded gun, was taken into custody around 8:30 p.m.
Authorities…
Five inmates at the Mountainview Youth Correctional Facility have been charged with first-degree murder in the beating death of a fellow inmate on Sunday.
Charged with murder in the death of Carl Epps, of Egg Harbor, were Darryl M. Ford, 22, of Irvington; Fonrose Smith, 21, of Bloomfield; Quacy April, 21, of Newark; Devone [...]
Thirteen young people in grades six through eight competed in Teen Café’s Second Annual Teen Idol Talent Show on Wednesday evening, August 4 at the North County Library in Clinton. More than sixty family members and friends, as well as Teen Café participants, filled the library’s meeting room as twelve individual acts; including guitar and [...]
A Virginia couple stopped for a traffic violation have been charged with hiding more than 200 bags of heroin.
Andrea Hollinghead, 28, of Roanoke, Va. and Fahiem Naseem, 40, also of Roanoke, were taken to the Hunterdon County Jail in lieu of $20,000 b…
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Not are discussing. 
Not 2:25 pm on August 30, 2010 Permalink |
Bad location, looking at it from a business point of view. I’d hate to see one more attration slowing down traffic, but it’s a little far out of town. Should have been by the circle.
Betty 5:19 pm on August 31, 2010 Permalink |
Am excited since I am a ‘Sonic Virgin’ but am not pleased with idea of more traffic and congestion in an already bad area. It is in an area of 31 that is one lane ea way… Am glad that it will not impact flow of the circle, since that is treacherous enough without help…