Millstone News

Nicholas Lucarella was so angry over losing custody of his three sons that he hired two men from Passaic County to kill his former Red Bank divorce lawyer in 2002, a prosecutor told jurors in Monmouth County today.

"Fish Passage Opportunities in the Raritan Watershed" will be the subject of an environmental speaker for the Lawrence Brook Watershed Partnership November meeting, to be held on Tuesday, November 17th, 7:30 PM, at the Milltown Senior Center, 17 Violet Terrace, Milltown, NJ.

A judge sentenced a New Jersey man Wednesday to a year in prison for counterfeiting postage meter stamps.

A Millstone man was sentenced to a year in federal prison for using counterfeit postage meter stamps to ship fake purses that he sold on the Internet, authorities said.

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

With the beauty of Wargo Pond as its backdrop, the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association , central New Jersey's first environmental group, rallied for protection of clean water and open space at a press conference at the Watershed Association's 860-acre Watershed Reserve in Hopewell NJ on October 21.

No town should be an island. Yet when floodwaters swell the Raritan and Millstone rivers, Manville is threatened with becoming just that.

The Courier News is pleased to present part two of the Somerset County election yearbook of contested races as a service to our readers, for the Nov.

Historical communities, agricultural landscapes and recreational areas -- they can all be found along the Delaware River in Hunterdon and Mercer counties, earning the area national recognition.

Ten years ago, when Hurricane Floyd deluged Central Jersey with record rainfall, Manville became an island when floodwaters from the Millstone and Raritan rivers encircled the town, leaving no way in and no way out.

Somerset County Park Commission Horticulture Department has scheduled a field study, "Put Your Garden to Bed," designed to show gardeners how to prepare the garden for winter on Saturday, October 17, 2009 beginning at 10:00 A.M. to 12:00 Noon The two-hour field study will be held in the Perennial Garden at Colonial Park, Parking Lot F, Mettlers ...

Woman's Club of Hillsborough is planning its annual basket auction at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct.

TWO DUTCH TREAT BUS tours will take place at 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept.

Two Dutch Treat bus tours will take place at 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept.

MANVILLE - The Somerset County Division of Solid Waste Management is partnering with the Manville Department of Public Works, located at 10 Gladys Ave., to collect old scrap tires, with or without rims.

Autumn is almost here, and the Somerset County Park Commission's Perennial Garden, located in Lot F of Colonial Park in the East Millstone section of Franklin, is approaching its peak bloom.

The mayors of Millstone and Rocky Hill are fighting mad -- and fighting back. They are suing the state Department of Education after their towns' school districts were dissolved.

The Board of Education has appointed an interim business administrator with 40 years experience in education as they work to fill the position permanently.

Three people thought to be missing were found unharmed after a canoe they rented was spotted floating in the Delaware & Raritan Canal Tuesday night, police said Aug.

Twist N Clout will look to remain perfect in 2009 Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - by Leon Zimmerman, for the New Jersey Sire Stakes Trenton, NJ --- Twist N Clout, the New Jersey Sire Stakes 2-Year-Old Filly Pacer of 2008, will try to win her third consecutive race and remain undefeated in 2009 in the $100,000 New Jersey Sire Stakes Premier Division ...