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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CLINTON TOWNSHIP… A township woman and her two dogs were attacked and injured by a runaway Labrador Retriever.
At 8:30 a.m. Wednesday Sept. 1, Ptl. David Formalarie was called to Smoke Rise Lane for a report of a woman being attacked by a dog. The initial report came from a resident who heard the woman screaming. The victim, [...]
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 [...]
Arrests could be imminent in Sunday’s fatal prison beating here, authorities said.
Carl Epps, 20, of Egg Harbor, was discovered Sunday evening unconscious on the floor of a residential pod at the Mountainview Youth Correctional Facility. He was soon …
Hunterdon County Sheriff Deborah V. Trout called the dismissal of charges Monday against her and two sheriff officers “bittersweet,” while a freeholder called the entire case “a complete waste.”
Indictments against Trout and two of her officers were dismissed Monday morning by Superior Court Judge Paul Armstrong after a motion by the state Attorney General’s [...]
CLINTON TOWNSHIP — The Hunterdon County Prosecutor’s Office, New Jersey Department of Corrections and the New Jersey State Police (NJSP) is investigating the death of an inmate at the Mountainview Youth Correctional Facility, 31 Petticoat Lane, in Clinton Township.
On Sunday evening, Carl Epps, 20, of Egg Harbor was discovered unconscious on the floor by [...]
SOMERVILLE — Indictments against Hunterdon County Sheriff Deborah Trout and two of her officers were dismissed this morning in state Superior Court.
Superior Court Judge Paul Armstrong dismissed the indictments after a motion by the state Attorney General’s Office, which had assumed the prosecution of the case.
In a letter to Armstrong, Deputy Attorney GeneralChristine. [...]
Nathaniel Barreto, who allegedly committed a string of armed robberies in Morris County and elsewhere, might be dubbed the stocking bandit.
But before he wore black stockings to cover his face, police say he wore a ski mask that revealed his eyes.
Th…
Police have identified, but still seek, a man suspected in a motel room trashing.
Clinton Township Police named Jacob Caron, described only as in his early to mid-20s, as the occupant of a room at the Fountain Motel that sustained several thousand do…
County freeholders defended the Department of Human Service’s withholding of the identity of a man sought by Clinton Township police for damaging a local motel room.
Hunterdon County Freeholder Rob Walton at Tuesday’s freeholders meeting defended the Hunterdon County Department of Human Services decision to deny Clinton Township Police the identity of a man sought for extensive damages [...]
Law enforcement officers from Raritan Township will be cracking down on drunk drivers as part of the summer 2010 “Over the Limit, Under Arrest” campaign. Beginning August 20, 2010 and running through September 06, local and state law enforcement officials will conduct sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols, looking for motorists who may be driving while [...]
A Texas man arrested on weapons charges after being found sleeping with guns in his car parked behind a Readington bank is now on trial.
Dustin S. Reininger, 37, of Rockport, Tx., a former part-time police officer in Maine, began his trial Monday in State Superior Court in Flemington for his Aug. 2009 indictments on unlawful [...]
The Frenchtown Police Department has pulled out all the stops for National Night Out 2010. The event combines the town picnic from 3 to 7 p.m. on Sunday Aug. 8 at Borough Field on Harrison Street near the elementary school.
The Frenchtown IGA Market has donated 1,000 hamburgers and 1,000 hot dogs which will be cooked and [...]
Nice! Someone should register it with the National Night Out official website so people can find out about it!
Flemington Night Out is from 5 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 3 at the American Legion post on Route 31. Open to all borough residents and borough business owners. Thanks madame councilwoman!
Dennis Tafoya, author of the highly-praised new crime novel, “The Wolves of Fairmount Park,” is bringing his Crime Writing Workshop for aspiring young writers to the Clinton Book Shop on August, 11th at 7:00pm.
Tafoya, who lives in Bucks County, Pa., is hoping that all would-be thriller writers will be interested in getting a few [...]
WEST AMWELL — Police have issued an artist’s sketch and description of the suspect in Wednesday’s aggravated assault at the Canal Park towpath. The suspect is described as a Hispanic male, approximately 5′6″-5′8″, 140-160 lbs., between the ages of 20-30, olive skin, brown flat-top style hair and wearing a dark polo shirt.
The Hunterdon County Prosecutor’s Office, Raritan Township Police Department and New Jersey State Police detectives assigned to the Internet Crimes against Children Task Force have announced the arrest of an individual charged with possessing and transmitting child pornography.
Raritan Township Police detectives and the child crime task force received information that an individual was posting [...]
CLINTON TOWNSHIP… An unwanted kiss in a church basement lands a parishioner in the county jail.
At approximately 3 p.m. on Sunday, May 23 a 47-year-old Hunterdon County woman was attending a baptism service at a Clinton Township church when another parishioner allegedly smelling of alcoholic beverage approached her in the basement, grabbed her by the face and kissed [...]
MARIJUANA, at approximately 2 p.m. on Monday, May 24, Patrolman Jeffery Glennon stopped a vehicle operated by Zachary Itterly, 21, of Easton, Pa. on Route 31 North near Allerton Road after a computer inquiry revealed that Itterly’s vehicle registration was expired. Upon approaching the vehicle Glennon immediately detected the odor of burnt marijuana and confronted Itterly, who handed over [...]
CLINTON TOWNSHIP — At approximately 9:40 p.m. on Sunday, May 30, Clinton Township police officers and Hunterdon County Prosecutor’s Narcotics Task Force detectives arrested Ana Camacho and Leon Smith, both 25 of Newark, in the parking lot of McDonalds on Center St., according to police.
Camacho was found to be in possession of 50 bags [...]
SHOPLIFTING, at approximately 6:29 p.m. Friday, May 28 police arrested Rachel S. Pirrone, 29 of Metuchen and charged her with shoplifting from Shop-Rite on Route 202/31 after being called to the store by loss prevention who saw Pirrone conceal grocery items valued at $195.89 in her purse and underneath her shopping cart and attempt to leave the store [...]
The season has begun for groups and individuals to strike our area to commit scams against unsuspecting residents. Some of these groups have ethnic backgrounds and the most active in our area are “Ethnic Irish Travelers” (Ethnic Irish Travelers is the name designated by federal law enforcement agencies that track these types of groups). These [...]
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Linda 12:16 pm on July 29, 2010 Permalink |
Flemington has one too. See you Tuesday!
Walter O\'Brien 12:35 pm on July 29, 2010 Permalink |
Nice! Someone should register it with the National Night Out official website so people can find out about it!
Flemington Night Out is from 5 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 3 at the American Legion post on Route 31. Open to all borough residents and borough business owners. Thanks madame councilwoman!
Linda 1:22 pm on July 29, 2010 Permalink |
No problem. It’s Councilwoman Oberst’s baby.