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The military veterans helped unload the 1,500 turkeys that had been donated to the Hillside food bank by Stop and Shop supermarket.

Charity Christmas Tree Sale Is a Local Tradition Somerset Hills area residents will gather on the town green in Basking Ridge as they have done for generations to get their holiday tree and trimmings.

The Somerset County 4-H Association will keep alive the tradition of a Festival of Trees at a public display this Saturday, after disappointed members had learned that a county-wide festival in Bernards would end after 35 years.

Miley Cyrus sings during her performance at Prudential Center in Newark on 11/07/09 There was no pole dancing, and no blonde wigs, at the at Miley Cyrus ' Wonder World concert at the Prudential Center in Newark last night.

The Basking Ridge Fire Company is searching for an evergreen tree, at least 30 feet high, that will look perfect from any angle when decorated.

The borough has hired former Teaneck Township Manager Helene Vaccaro Fall as its new part-time administrator.

The 35-year holiday tradition of the Festival of Trees, held each December at the Environmental Education Center off Lord Stirling Road, has ended.

Bethel Ridge Corp. of Basking Ridge, NJ, has received accreditation from CARF for its Supported Employment Program.

Newark's money? Somebody tell Christie to get a clue. Well, that didn't take long.

Susan and Allison Ivan are heading out of town for a while to reap the benefits of years of dance classes.

Independent candidate Chris Daggett took the podium in a banquet room of Dolce in the Basking Ridge section of the township just before 9:45 p.m. and conceded in the race for governor, thanking his family, running mate Frank Esposito and supporters amid cheers from the crowd.

Independent gubernatorial candidate Chris Daggett votes in Basking Ridge and then campaigns in Fort Lee Added by Patti Sapone/The Star-Ledger on November 3, 2009 at 4:00 PM Bea Daggett, left, and her husband, independent gubernatorial candidate Chris Daggett, talk with Alexi Quinones, center, as he campaigns in Fort Lee.

A small bus carrying six special-needs adults from the Matheney Medical and Educational Center was rear-ended in traffic on North Maple Avenue at about 3:10 p.m. Monday, township police said.

Carolyn Gaziano and John Malay, Republican candidates for Bernards Township Committee, are scheduled to attend two upcoming candidates events hosted by Ridge Oak Senior Center and Fellowship Village retirement community this week, according to their campaign manager, John Carpenter.

A Roman Catholic priest who was stabbed to death in his rectory was remembered Saturday as a"quiet voice of peaceful love" at his burial Mass in northern New Jersey.

While parts of Central Jersey are some of the most affluent areas in the nation, there are people living here facing serious financial hardship.

The Bernards Township Health Department -- which serves Chester, the Mendhams and Long Hill in Morris County -- has scheduled three H1N1 Influenza vaccination clinics for those at high risk.

SOMERVILLE, N.J. - An Illinois man has admitted banking more than $470,000 in paychecks from a New Jersey company for whom he never worked.

BERNARDS TWP. - Hundreds of Somerset County Democrats turned out at Dolce in Basking Ridge on Wednesday for the Somerset County Democratic Committee's Gala Dinner.