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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Dr. Darren Loew wants to make Halloween even sweeter this year.
In an effort to teach children the importance of maintaining healthy smiles while also aiding U.S. troops overseas, the borough-based orthodontist is holding a candy buy-back program.
During the program, Loew throughout early November will buy for $1 per pound any unopened candy from any child who comes to the office. That money will be given to charity and the candy will be turned over to Rose Holden, director of development and public relations at the Center for Educational Advancement. Holden’s son in November is scheduled for deployment to Afghanistan with the Marine Corps.
Holden’s son also is affiliated with the Hunterdon Marine Corps League Bulldogs, Detachment No. 927. The Bulldogs participate in Operation Shoebox New Jersey, which sends care packages to troops fighting overseas. The candy will be part of those packages, said Janna Gay, a spokeswoman for Loew Orthodontics.
“These kids get so much candy, which aren’t healthy for their teeth or braces, so I wanted to give the kids some excitement so they actually get something back from giving away their candy,” Loew said. “Giving candy to the troops helps them (troops) enjoy Halloween when they can’t be at home. It’s a win-win for everyone.”
This is the fifth consecutive year Loew Orthodontics is holding the program. In 2008, the orthodontics office collected more than 425 pounds of Halloween candy for the troops and $400 total was donated to the Hunterdon Outreach Program.
The program, started in spring 2003, promotes and develops different sports for children in the community who are physically or developmentally disabled. Loew said he plans to aid that program again this year.
Polytech Teacher Academy seniors completed their initial 3-week internship program at Barley Sheaf and Reading Fleming Intermediate schools in Flemington last week. The 14 students will participate in 7 more internship programs throughout the school year to complete their course work to earn 3 Seton Hall College credits in the education program at Polytech. These [...]
Dr. Darren Loew wants to make Halloween even sweeter this year.
In an effort to teach children the importance of maintaining healthy smiles while also aiding U.S. troops overseas, the borough-based orthodontist is holding a candy buy-back program.
During the program, Loew throughout early November will be buying any unopened candy from any child [...]
A jury has awarded a Warren County man $6 million, believed to be the largest trial award in Hunterdon County history, for injuries he received when a tree limb fell on his car on Route 29 in Delaware Township.
John Matlock, 43, suffered a broken neck and severe arm and hand injuries in the July 4, 2006 accident that left him disabled, said his lawyer, John Dodig of the Philadelphia firm of Feldman, Shepherd, Wohlgelernter, Tanner, Weinstock & Dodig.
The eight-member jury reached the unanimous verdict after deliberating approximately four hours, Dodig said. The trial before Superior Court Judge Peter Buchsbaum lasted two weeks.
Matlock, who had been been employed as a truck driver, continues undergoing physical rehabilitation, Dodig said. The award will help Matlock with his medical and living expenses, Dodig said.
The verdict was “not unexpected,” said Dodig, whose co-counsel in the case was Jason Daria.
In the lawsuit, Matlock charged the state Department of Transportation should have removed a dead tree along the highway from which a limb fell on the car Matlock was driving, and in which his wife Ashley, their daughter Vicky and two friends were passengers.
Matlock contended there were 55 reports of tree problems on Route 29 in the township in the two years prior to the accident. The suit also said the state had received a report five months before the accident of a 100-foot dead tree on the shoulder of the highway at the same mile marker as the accident.
According to a state Department of Transportation report, the tree limb was “hollowed out” and the tree was “rotten.”
Key to case was a state policy for maintenance crews to travel state roads every other week to inspect embankments and look for possible hazards. If a tree was found that posed a hazard, then a maintenance crew or a landscaping crew would be called to the scene, according to court papers.
If that policy were followed, the lawsuit argued, the state should have known the dead tree posed an “obvious” danger and should have been removed, according to court papers.
Before the case went to trial, the state asked Buchsbaum to dismiss the suit because under the state Tort Claims Act, government cannot be held liable for negligence unless it had knowledge of a dangerous condition.
The state argued it was unaware of the dead tree because there were insufficient funds to identify all trees along street highways that may pose a hazard, according to court papers.
Buchsbaum ruled the case should proceed because “there is a question of material fact as to whether it was palpably unreasonable for the (Department of Transportation) to fail to report a tree which posed an “obvious danger’ to the maintenance crew or the landscaping crew.”
My little ghost has a helpful side like a young child who follows you around to help you with little unassuming tasks…Consider this…TURE STORY. Some years ago at Christmas when my daughters were in school
Hunterdon County Clerk Mary H. Melfi recently was sworn in as president of the Constitutional Officers Association of New Jersey at the group’s 33rd annual conference.
The meeting was held Sept. 15-18 in Galloway Township. COANJ is a professional organization, made up of county clerks, registers of deeds, surrogates and sheriffs from each of the state’s 21 counties.
Hunterdon County Freeholders Matt Holt, R-Clinton Town and Ron Sworen, R-Frenchtown, were in attendance as Hunterdon County Surrogate Susan J. Hoffman administered the oath of office. Deputy Majority Leader Sen. Paul Sarlo, D-Wood-Ridge, and Assembly Minority Leader Assemblyman Alex DeCroce, R-Whippany, also were in attendance as they received awards from COANJ as 2009 Legislators of the Year.
“It is truly an honor to be selected by my peers to lead this important organization,” Melfi said in an e-mail. “With their support, we will continue to provide services to our constituents in an ethical and efficient manner.”
Melfi was elected in 2006 as county clerk. In July, she was nominated President of COANJ by her 65 colleagues. The organization meets regularly throughout the year to discuss legislation, continuing education and other issues that affect county constitutional offices.
Yesterday, I received an election mailer from Team Oberst/Hain.
It is short and to the point. The candidates are contesting the health care insurance coverage provided by the taxpayers for Boro council members, promising not to let taxpayers pay for their health care insurance.
Quoting an excerpt from a July 2009 Hunterdon County Democrat article that discusses [...]
New Jersey (October 26, 2009) – Did you know that there are 23.6 million U.S. veterans in the United States, including 9.3 million over the age of 65 and 7.9 million Vietnam-era veterans? This Veterans Day, Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill & Bar ® restaurants throughout New Jersey are serving free entrees to our veterans and active [...]
FLEMINGTON – United Way of Hunterdon County is partnering with the Interfaith Hospitality Network and Legal Services of Northwest Jersey in three counties to better assist families threatened by homelessness.
United Way, on behalf of Hunterdon, Sussex and Warren Counties, received in September a $2 million grant from the New [...]
Members of the North Hunterdon Rotary Club recently came to Valley View School in Lebanon Township, NJ. They presented all third grade students with dictionaries to use at school and at home. The rotary club members explained the uses of the dictionary as well as some of its special features. The presenters reminded the students that even if they use spell check on their computers, they might still make mistakes and that the dictionary is a very useful tool.
From 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 7 at Deer Path Park, 120 W. Woodschurch Road, Flemington, visit with vehicle owners who love to share their life size hot wheels. A day of fun for kids of all ages who would like to examine up close a huge dump truck, a Harley Davidson Sportster [...]
Join chief park naturalist Tom Sheppard for a birding adventure to Sandy Hook, a 2044 acre barrier beach peninsula with salt marshes and a maritime holly forest, beginning 6 a.m., until 5:30 p.m., on Nov. 15, for adults only. We will search a variety of coastal habitats from sand dunes, grasslands, salt and freshwater marshes, [...]
Join park naturalist Laura Kroon at the Echo Hill Environmental Center, 42 Lilac Drive, Flemington, for a fun evening of sensory awareness games, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., on Thursday, Nov. 19.
For thousands of years people from all over the world have used games to sharpen their senses and practice skills important for survival. [...]
“Birding for Beginners” will take place from 7 to 8:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 12 at Echo Hill Park, 42 Lilac Drive, Flemington. The cost is $3 per person. The workshop is designed for ages 8 and older and all children must be accompanied by an adult. Advance registration is required.
Walter O’Brien was making the same trip home he does every night, traversing Interstate 78 west to Route 31 north. The only deviation from his normal routine on Sept. 4 was a side trip to a co-worker’s house to drop off a computer.
But that gesture was about to mark the onset of the most difficult time of his life, for as he was driving on Route 31, he was involved in a serious car accident.
O’Brien could not get out of his Jeep Liberty, which he had just paid off that morning. And his first thought was not about himself or his well-being — it was about his trusted canine companion, Bear.
A muffled whimper told O’Brien that Bear was OK. But O’Brien was not, and that soon became painfully obvious.
“The dog was absolutely the first thing on my mind. The second was that I knew I was going to be in good hands,” said O’Brien, 57, referring to the Clinton Emergency Medical Services unit, with which he works regularly while covering Hunterdon County for the Courier News, the sister paper of the Home News Tribune. “I knew (the right) ankle hurt; I knew (the left) leg wasn’t moving; I knew (the left) arm was moving at the elbow, but the wrist just stayed where it was. But I just said, “Just shut up, relax and do whatever they say.’ ”
It took awhile to get him into those good hands — the top half and sides of his car had to be cut to gain access to him. And then his journey to recovery began.
O’Brien was first taken to the trauma center at Morristown Memorial Hospital. It took less than an hour for the doctors, nurses and technicians to discover he had broken his right ankle on both sides, mangled the tibial plateau and shattered the kneecap on his left leg, snapped both the ulna and radius in his left arm and suffered five broken ribs.
“I was awake for the whole thing,” O’Brien said. “After about an hour of stabilizing various things, they were sending me off to surgery. And I blinked, and the next thing I knew I was in a room and I had a big chunk of metal bolted to my leg and I pretty much couldn’t move in any direction.”
O’Brien had undergone five hours of surgery by orthopedic surgeons James G. Kanellakos and Adam D. Wagshul.
“I don’t remember any of it,” O’Brien said. “But I do remember them telling me, “You’re going to look at your leg and you’re going to see that you have some metal attached to you, so don’t freak out.’ Then they took the sheet off and showed me, and there it was, from my ankle to halfway up my thigh. That was a big, heavy-duty piece of titanium to keep the leg locked in place for two weeks until they could do a second surgery on the leg.”
Following that subsequent operation, he needed to choose where to begin rehabilitation.
There were many options on the table, but O’Brien eventually selected Rolling Hills Care Center, a small facility nestled in the woods just south of Round Valley Recreation Area.
It didn’t take long for O’Brien and his team of caregivers — occupational therapist Suman Sethi and physical therapist Pam Hutchison — to determine a course of action. But that doesn’t mean the process has been easy since he checked in more than four weeks ago.
“We do a lot of muscle strengthening, balance work for standing and sitting; we work on their endurance level; we work on strength training and making sure they’re walking better,” said Sethi, a Pittstown native who has worked at Rolling Hills for three years. “He’s very limited on all of his limbs except for one, so we have had to do a lot of compensatory strategies.”
Whether it’s pedaling an arm bike ? five minutes on, five minutes off — for 20 minutes to help regain strength in his left arm, bicep/tricep curls to recover range of motion or leg lifts and lateral leg movements to help the newly constructed tibial plateau relearn its functions, O’Brien is busy.
“The body forgets how to do it,” he said while raising a ball over his head 30 times, then pushing it away from him 30 times to help stretch out his somewhat-atrophied left arm muscles. “I thought it was weird when people would say they have to relearn how to walk. Now I get it.”
Sethi — who works with O’Brien on self-care tasks such as getting dressed, eating, regaining condition and getting from his wheelchair to the bed and vice versa — could not agree more.
“He’s been great. He’s had a tremendous recovery so far,” she said. “When we saw all the diagnoses he had, we said, ‘This is going to be so hard.’ But from the get-go, he was motivated to get better. A lot has to do with how you feel, not just how you heal.”
O’Brien is most proud of how he transitions himself from the chair to the bed. He just leans to the right and turns over — stop, drop and roll-style — into the bed.
To Sethi, it demonstrates O’Brien’s sheer determination to return to his former self.
“A lot of patients say, ‘I can’t do it.’ They can’t help themselves physically,” she said. “He, on the other hand, was great from the beginning. He was ready to get better.”
On Nov. 6, O’Brien has an appointment with his orthopedic surgeons to determine how far he’s come in his recovery.
At that point, he either will be given the green light to begin in-home physical therapy or have to stay at Rolling Hills for a bit longer.
O’Brien believes he’s ready to go home; Hutchinson hopes so, but isn’t sure.
“The time frame is difficult to pinpoint because his orthopedic surgeons basically tell us when he will be able to put weight on the legs,” said Hutchison, a native of Asbury who also is Rolling Hills’ director of rehabilitation. “When he’s ready, they’ll likely start with a partial weight-bearing regimen where he only puts 50 percent of the weight on at first and then progresses to his tolerance level.”
O’Brien also believes that once he is home, it will be another month until he can begin accomplishing many of his former tasks. Again, Hutchison is cautious with her estimate.
“I can’t say for sure, but it’s probably going to be another three to six months,” she said. “He’ll start off with the walker and then go to a cane. Initially, he’ll be getting home therapy, and when he gets to the point of being more mobile, then he’ll go to outpatient therapy. But there’s no reason he can’t get back to close to 100 percent.”
And once O’Brien does, what will his “new” life look like?
“I’m going to hire a chauffeur and sit in the back seat,” he said, always a joker in good spirits.
O’Brien has lost between 50 and 70 pounds ? and intends to keep off that weight. Hutchison knows he can do it.
“He is incredibly motivated,” she said. “Attitude is 90 percent. If you get a very motivated individual, they are going to go and do very well.”
Still, O’Brien hopes no one has to endure what he has.
“I wouldn’t necessarily recommend my method of weight loss to anyone,” he said.
Jeff Weber: 732-565-7327; jweber@MyCentralJersey.com. Follow the local health-care scene on the Heartbeats blog Click Here
BURGLARY, Oct. 23. A Lilac Drive residence was burglarized between 12:30 p.m. Oct. 22 and 6:30 p.m. Oct. 23. Entry was gained by breaking a bedroom window. Although the burglars left numerous drawers ajar, the homeowners reported that a jug of coins, valued at approximately $75, was the only item stolen.
The homeowners advised police their driveway had been resealed Oct. 22 and that the contractor claimed that he had resealed a neighbor’s driveway several days earlier. Upon checking with the neighbors, however, police learned that the neighbor’s driveway had been resealed by a completely different organization. Det. Sgt. David Bye is investigating.
Source: Central Jersey police departments
Courier News staff writer Walter O’Brien has been through a lot since suffering a serious car accident on Sept. 4.
He’s had multiple surgeries on his right ankle, left leg and left arm, spent three weeks at Morristown Memorial Hospital and has been at a rehabilitation facility for several weeks, undergoing physical and occupational therapy twice a day.
It’s still at least another couple of weeks before O’Brien will know when he can get back to work and resume his life.
O’Brien could not have made it through his ordeal without the sympathy, attention to detail and skills of those who worked on him so diligently that first night in Morristown.
“I remember one of the first things the doctors said to me was, “We saw your car. You are one lucky guy,”‘ said O’Brien, who covers Hunterdon County for the Courier News and MyCentralJersey.com.
That was just the beginning. Drs. Vicente H. Gracias and Adam Schiroff of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, or RWJUH, and Robert Wood Johnson Medical Schools in New Brunswick have a pretty good idea of what might have taken place after O’Brien arrived at the hospital. Neither physician is involved in O’Brien’s case.
“The more people that understand what’s going on the better,” said Gracias, the director of RWJUH’s Level One Trauma Center — one of only three in the state, along with University Hospital in Newark and Cooper Hospital/University Medical Center in Camden. “It’s called damage-control surgery, so we stop operating when we stabilize things.
“The philosophy has to be understood to understand the conversations we have with our patients. Look, what we’re trying to do is operate as much as we can to move you forward, but not too much that it sets you back.”
Trauma cases are not unusual at RWJ, which treated 1,259 of them in 2008.
Explaining to a patient exactly what he will be going through after a traumatic injury is an important part of the early recovery process, but only one part, the doctors say. A patient’s state of mind also must be taken into consideration.
“Patients feel a loss of control because of their trauma,” said Gracias, who also is a professor of surgery and chief of the trauma/surgical critical care unit at the medical school. “A surgeon’s job is to put you (the patient) in a situation where you feel you have some control. The patient and the surgeon together are going to work to discover how much can be done, how much can be restored. That and how the patient heals will determine what the next step is.”
In O’Brien’s case, he was determined to be extremely capable of healing quickly — both mentally and physically.
“I said to myself, “Am I gonna give up, or am I going to fight this?”‘ O’Brien said. “I decided to make the best of it because I’m still alive.”
Not every patient has that attitude and mind-set, however.
“It’s almost like you’re a child again,” said Schiroff, an assistant professor of surgery and associate trauma program director at the medical school and hospital. “The state of your body has changed dramatically. You feel as if you have no control over your situation. It’s really a matter of a dependency on another human being. They have no choice but to trust us. So we take that obligatory trust very seriously.”
At trauma centers such as the ones in Morristown and New Brunswick, as well as myriad other locations around the Garden State, that practice is well-observed.
“Orthopedic surgeons have done a nice job of doing what needs to be done to restore function. That is what orthopedics is really all about. There’s more room for failure,” said Gracias, who estimates that the typical orthopedic surgeon is in training for seven to nine years. “We understand now more than ever what to do and that their (the patient’s) recovery is dependent upon how they feel about themselves and how they feel about the team and the work that was done to them.”
The South Branch Watershed Association is expected to reveal the results of the 2009 river monitoring season and the health of the South Branch Raritan River using 16 years of the association’s monitoring data, which includes two new sites added this year.
THEFT, Aug. 26. Detective Paul Bate recently charged township resident Lloyd Albright, 53, with theft. Police say Albright was browsing in the Golden Rainbow antique shop on Route 626 on Aug. 26 when he agreed with the owner to purchase some chairs, a vanity, and a dresser for $100. Albright and a second person loaded the chairs into a car and said they would return with the money.
When the two did not return by the end of the day, the owner left the store for the evening and when he arrived the following day, he found the remainder of the furniture was gone, police said. However, the men never paid for the items, police said. The victim was able to recall Albright’s vehicle registration and description and after a series of interviews Bate determined Albright was the man who had taken the items, police said.
DRUGS, 9:40 p.m. Oct. 12. Patrolman Lawrence Anthes stopped a vehicle driven by Sherry Hagerty, 38, of Frenchtown, on Route 31 near Country Club Drive after randomly entering her vehicle’s registration into his on-board computer and learning that it was suspended. During the stop, Anthes discovered that Hagerty was in possession of 41 percocet pills in a cellophane cigarette wrapper and a crack pipe, police said.
When Hagerty was unable to produce a prescription, Anthes charged her with possession of a controlled dangerous substance,
possession of a prescription legend drug, possession of drug paraphernalia, operating a motor vehicle while in possession of a controlled dangerous substance, driving a suspended vehicle, and driving an uninsured vehicle.
DRUNKEN DRIVING, 1:40 a.m. Oct. 14. Patrolman Joseph SanGiovanni received a report of a possible intoxicated driver on Route 31 and subsequently stopped the vehicle on Halstead Street. During the stop, SanGiovanni detected the odor of an alcoholic beverage on the breath of the driver, Herbert Milan, 47, of Flemington and soon determined that he was intoxicated, police said. Milan was charged with driving while intoxicated, refusal to submit to a breath test, consumption of an alcoholic beverage in a motor vehicle, and failure to maintain lane.
Source: Central Jersey police departments
