Hamburg News

It's time to Lighten up again in 2010. The New Jersey Herald is looking for eight people - four men and four women - who are interested in a 15-week challenge to help them reach their goal for better health and weight loss.

Despite economic setbacks in 2008 and 2009, the world market for electronics manufacturing services will continue to grow according to a report released by IPC - Association Connecting Electronics Industries .

A little over a year ago, Cord Friedrick von Hobe left his small village of Ohrfield, Germany to participate in the track and field events at the World Youth Championships in San Francisco.

The Society of Manufacturing Engineers , the world's leading professional society serving the manufacturing industry, has elected nine industry leaders to the Society's prestigious College of Fellows for 2009.

Photo by Daniel Freel/New Jersey Herald Noah Samuel-Siegel, 7, of Newton, performs a karate demonstration Sunday along with his fellow students from Black Dragon Karate during the 9th annual Sussex County Red Ribbon Day Celebration at Sussex County Technical School's McNeice Auditorium.

Photo by Daniel Freel/New Jersey Herald A portrait of Anna Mae Schurko from her time in the United States Cadet Nurse Corps during World War II sits on a coffee table in her Hamburg home.

Photo by Daniel Freel/New Jersey Herald Croceann Moreira, of Wantage, transfers a bag of food from her cart to a food drive cart as the Wanderers Car Club gathers in the parking lot of the A&P supermarket, in Sussex Borough, Sunday for a food drive benefiting the Sussex Help Center.

Photo by Daniel Freel/New Jersey Herald Emergency responders man a roadblock in Franklin on Monday night.

Herald Staff Report newsroom@njherald.com A class trip became fodder for the swine flu rumor-mill earlier this week, as 16 out of 78 eighth-graders at Frankford School became ill with flu-like symptoms after a two-day trip to Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia.

The Vernon Township Land Use Board will continue a public hearing on a cell tower proposed for 3 Silver Spruce Dr.

Submitted Photo Jim DeGroat, of Frankford, stands by an early 1900s outhouse at his home, the old Pellettown School House.

A Hamburg woman has been indicted for allegedly borrowing $116,000 from a friend in Sussex Borough and falsely promising she'd be able to repay the loan with proceeds from a lawsuit settlement, according to court papers.

In order to plan for the future, Franklin Borough is taking lessons from its past.

School lunches need more fruits, veggies and whole grains and a limit on calories, said a report urging an update of the nation's 14-year-old standards for cafeteria fare.

Driver's license suspensions can ruin lives in Sussex County, attorneys say. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time, the saying goes, but children and other innocents are affected by the financial hardships that accompany mom's or dad's inability to get to work in rural-suburban areas without adequate public transportation, these attorneys ...

PHOTOS >> >> >> >> >> Chief Education Officers, New Jersey's public education leaders, ensure that Garden State children receive the highest-quality education in the most cost-efficient manner.

The black-and-white snapshot above was taken in a Franklin tavern sixty-eight years ago.

The Borough of Hamburg Fire Department, observing its own centennial, will host the 89th Sussex County Firemen's Association Annual Inspection Day Parade Saturday.

A previously convicted sex offender with a long history of Megan's Law offenses admitted Wednesday he sent explicit letters and illustrations to an adult woman in Hamburg.

Years ago, Steven Oroho thought he was history when he told his boss some bad news.