Pittstown News

The 19th annual Great Tomato Tasting at the Rutgers NJAES Snyder Farm will take place from 3 p.m. to dusk, rain or shine, Wednesday, Aug.

The following local area students received degrees at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., at commencement exercises on May 16.

The Reppert family holds a welcome back BBQ for Army Specialist Matthew Reppert, who spent over a year in Afghanistan with the Alpha Company 2nd Battalion 506 Infantry before returning recently to his Middletown home.

We learn that the stock of California trout in the Delaware is doing well, much better than the salmon introduced in the same water.

To the Editor: Happy Father's Day. For those men who do not have children, you can celebrate your father and/or our Father in heaven, our Lord.

Buzz on is what honey bees do, especially when their honeycombs are being handled, here by Ag Secretary Doug Fisher, backed up by Pier Gudi of Hillsboro, Somerset County.

Local aircraft experimenters make the dream of flight come true for young people.

PITTSTOWN: A State Police patrol car rear-ended a vehicle at the intersection of routes 513 and 579 on Sunday, authorities said today.

COUSINS IN A GLOOMY MANSION are played by Amanda Obiedzinski of Pittstown as Mary Lennox and Hugh Zimmerbaum, also of Pittstown as Colin Craven.

Pittstown, NJ, May 30, 2009: Hunterdon Facility Planners, LLC Managing Principal Caroline Shelly earned certification for the LEED Rating System this month, adding this critical certification to HFP's expertise.

SHOPLIFTING, 6:12 p.m. May 22: Two 16-year-old girls from Pittstown were arrested and charged with shoplifting at Macy's. The girls were seen by a store security officer concealing clothing in bags they were carrying, police said.

Pittstown-based Dreams Come True Therapeutic Riding has received a $2,500 grant from The Walt Disney Corporation that will provide scholarships for children with disabilities to attend summer camp.

Graduating from Syracuse University -- Justin Lefkus, Annandale, cum laude with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering.

The definition of art has been debated for centuries, with most agreeing that art means something different to everyone.

The township is moving to auction off a 250-year-old preserved farm it owns. Any sale would carry deed restrictions that would keep the property in agriculture.

The 10th annual Bonnie Brae Polo Classic will return to Fieldview Farm on Saturday, June 13.

The following indictments have been handed up by a Hunterdon County grand jury: - Daniel J. Watson, 37, of Flemington was indicted on one count each of morphine and cocaine possession on or about Dec.

Police are asking for the public's help in locating a 60-year-old Hunterdon County man last seen in the city more than a week ago.

Soon after outpacing other female competitors during the Midland School's 'new' Midland Run on Wednesday, Parsipanny resident Desi Cleary, 16, said the key to success is practice.

Horses are vital to the New Jersey economy. According to the latest Rutgers Equine Science Center study , "...there are 42,500 equine animals on 7,200 farms.