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Drennan Barnes, 3, receives comfort from her mother, Jennifer Barnes, after getting a swine flu vaccination in Atlanta.

John Glokner died on Monday, Nov. 9, 2009, at his residence. He was 87. Born in Suffern, N.Y. on May 2, 1922, he was a son of Antonio and Esther Morris Glokner.

Did you ever notice a Blue Star Memorial marker at a rest area in New Jersey or other areas of the country and wonder what it was all about? The Blue Star Memorial program started right here in New Jersey in 1944.

As influenza-like illness, perhaps swine flu, spreads through Hunterdon, absenteeism at some county schools has exceeded 15%, and children are staying home in growing numbers.

On top of a state question about open space bonding, residents in several towns will be voting on local questions concerning open space, the membership of a local governing board and the purchase of an ambulance.

Police responding to reports of a loud crash on Old York Road around 2:20 a.m. Oct.

Members of Marine Corps League Detachment 927 will be participating in the annual Rose Days Program at two locations in Hunterdon this weekend, accepting donations.

The man who led police from a half-dozen municipalities on a chase through Hunterdon County on Thursday afternoon has been identified 36-year-old Samuel Emery II, with address in Phillipsburg and Harmony Township.

A wild police chase this afternoon through six municipalities ended when the man being pursued got out of his car and jumped into the Delaware River near Spring Garden Road, just north of Milford.

At the Annual Awards Breakfast of the Hunterdon County Chamber of Commerce at 8 a.m. on Thursday, Nov.

SHOPLIFTING, 1:19 p.m. Oct. 23. Josephine Roberts, 62, of East Amwell, was charged with shoplifting from ShopRite on Route 202/31. Roberts is accused of taking a DVD valued at $19.95 from the store.

With the economy on tenterhooks and people wondering how much more expensive it might become to live, work and own a home in New Jersey, voters in Warren and Hunterdon counties have reason to seek out candidates with a background in public budgeting, especially budget-cutting. Only two of the four Assembly candidates in the 23rd District, both ...

A couple who practice traditional crafts will offer a program at Bouman-Stickney Farmstead on Sunday, Nov.

Talk to state Assembly candidates about improving life in New Jersey, and they'll bring up many of the same problems: state spending woes, fixing the educational system and reforming health care.

THEFT, Oct. 13. On Oct. 12, police received a report of a theft of cash from an apartment at 427 Route 22.

The township is one of nine statewide municipalities to receive substantive certification under the Council on Affordable Housing's revised third-round rules.

High winds buffeted Central Jersey on Wednesday, playing havoc with tree branches and utility lines.

A total of $15,000 in funding to seven local projects has been provided by the Somerset County United Way Women's Initiative.

A trio of Hunterdon County businesses are jointly supporting at-risk youth by setting up drop-off centers at their establishments for a recycled jewelry project.

Two people were hurt in a three-car accident Tuesday at 5 p.m. at the intersection of Red Devil Way and Route 523.