Highland Lakes News

Get used to the sight of bears in your neighborhood if you live in the Northeast., U.S. Fish and Wildlife experts warn.

Police also determined Reese had a $1,000 warrant out of Hackettstown. He also was charged with driving while suspended, reckless driving, having an open alcohol container, failing to wear a seatbelt, and failing to report an address change.

Six members of a bandana-clad armed gang that robbed several residents in a Frankford home in 2007 were sentenced to state prison for their roles in the crime, the Sussex County Prosecutor's Office said today.

A Sussex County man was sentenced to state prison today for distributing child pornography over the Internet, the state attorney general's office announced.

There will be no second-guessing his decision the day Anthony Macerino shuts off the lights and exits his office for the last time as superintendent of the Vernon Schools.

A 49-year-old Franklin man died Sunday when he fell through the ice and drowned while fishing alone at an isolated lake in the Hamburg Mountain Wildlife Preservation Area.

Herald Staff Report VERNON a ' Four people, including a 23-year-old Hamburg man who lost his clothes last Sunday during a chase by officers in Tuxedo, N.Y., have been arrested for allegedly breaking into cars ...

Two single-car accidents that occurred a short distance away from each other on Route 23 south and just minutes apart Friday morning backed up rush hour traffic for several miles.

Herbert Wetzler, of Highland Lakes, shows Glen Meadow Middle School student Megan Williams a rock used to chip away spear and arrowheads at the Vernon Historical Societya s meeting with students last Wednesday.

Dec. 5 Salvatore Mattiaccio, age 45, of Stanhope was sentenced to three years probation and 40 hours of community service.

In the wake of last week's ice storm -- and possibly before Mother Nature slams the area today with the first significant winter storm of the season -- a public works task force armed with wood chippers, dump ...

Power has been restored to nearly all of the 5,000 homes in Sussex County that lost electrical service in an ice storm that hit the area last week, a spokesman for Sussex Rural Electric Cooperative said today.

The results are in and Sussex County residents seem pretty pleased with what's available to them in the county.

Most of Sussex County dodged a winter bullet. Downed tree limbs caused power outages throughout the county, mostly in the northeast section, but state police said there were no reports of major traffic ...

Highland Lakes in Vernon, Sussex County is closed due to a severe ice storm that felled trees, caused power outages and blocked roads, authorities said.

A former Highland Lakes mother of two suffered "a parade of horribles," including the loss of her job, bankruptcy and the death of her brother, and resorted to dealing prescription drugs, her lawyer said ...

MOUNT OLIVE -- Dennis and Lois Ann Cianci of Flanders announce the engagement of their daughter Lee Ann Cianci of Hackettstown to Michael Anthony Hojer, also of Hackettstown.