Readington News

There is a great need for a bus depot, parking lot and office space for the Transportation Department.

Joe Schwenkler, M.D., medical director and assistant professor at the physician assistant program at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, received the 2009 New Faculty Award for Professional Excellence from the Physician Assistant Education Association at its recent forum in Portland, Ore.

More than $1.8 million in federal grant money is being allocated for developing, maintaining and improving recreational trails throughout New Jersey, the Department of Environmental Protection announced.

To the Editor: The Board of Education is proposing to build a bus depot and bus parking lot adjacent to the Holland Brook School.

A Pennsylvania man has been charged with stealing a check in a burglary at a Branchburg home and trying to cash it at a Bound Brook bank.

To the Editor: The Readington school board has twisted priorities. Several weeks ago, a group of Readington parents commiserated about the miserable experience our children had while attending the middle school.

More shipments of H1N1, or swine, flu vaccine have rolled in to the county, leading health officials to open registration for the next three of five clinics planned at school sites across the county: Thursday, Dec.

To the Editor: I see by her Nov. 26 letter that Mayor Julia Allen hasn't given up her crusade to sequester every acre of undeveloped land in Readington.

A Lebanon woman, Laura Sterling, 44, was arrested on Monday and charged with shoplifting at the Walmart on Route 22 where she worked.

The Hunterdon County Chamber of Commerce Annual Holiday Card Club will be Thursday, Dec.

The resignation of Annette Marsh has left a vacancy on the Readington Township Board of Education.

Three police officers a responded to the Whitehouse Motel on Thanksgiving Day for a report of a fight in progress.

WARRANT ARREST, Nov. 21. Sgt. Christopher DeWire went to the Wall Township Police Department to pick up Frederick Hirsch, 40, of Bayville, who was wanted on an outstanding warrant from Readington Municipal Court for $2,500. He was lodged in the Hunterdon County Jail in default of bail.

It was a simple message for women between 40 and 49 years old - keep getting annual mammograms.

The new year will bring a new police chief to replace Chief James Paganessi, who is retiring.

A Bridgewater man was charged with driving under the influence yesterday on Route 202 near Railroad Avenue by Readington Township police.

To the Editor: We just recently learned that the Readington school district intends to build a bus depot next to Holland Brook School.

Three women have been charged with helping a Raritan Borough man rob a man of his wallet at the Wawa on Route 202.

A 20-year-old Raritan Borough man was charged with four robberies that occurred within the past three weeks in Somerset and Hunterdon counties, the Somerset County Prosecutor announced Friday, November 13.

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