Somerville News

Ledger Live for Friday November 13th, 2009 - Ledger Live with Brian Donohue. On today's show: We explore the tricky business of town consolidation in New Jersey.

A Chester-based company is making significant investments downtown. DGM Management LCC recently bought 44 Veterans Memorial Drive East for $1.2 million after receiving planning board approval August to add three stories to a West Main Street property that will house 12 apartments.

Thomas S. Wagner, a CPA and partner with the borough-based firm of Wagner, Morey & Nee, recently was awarded the Certified in Financial Forensics credential by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

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A $250 reward is being offered for information on the whereabouts of a Manville man wanted in connection with an attempted robbery of a Bound Brook gas station.

Share + Nov 19, 2009 9:45 am US/Eastern TRENTON, N.J. 1 of 1 Former basketball player Jayson Williams confers with defense attorney Billy Martin during a hearing at the Somerset County Courthouse in Somerville, N.J., on July 16, 2007.

Two members of the Somerville Board of Education suggested Tuesday that fellow member Helene Venizelos should resign because of allegations tied to the district's hunt for a new superintendent.

Authorities are hoping to expedite the removal of hateful graffiti from an embankment near the NJ Transit station here.

It took only a few minutes late Tuesday morning for the world of Avana Hicks to change forever.

Firefighters have quickly extinguished a blaze in an apartment in the Mt. Pleasant Villas complex in the Finderne section of the township.

Share + Nov 11, 2009 7:15 am US/Pacific SOMERVILLE, N.J. A New Jersey judge says a quadriplegic blocked from buying a gun to go hunting has the right to bear arms even though he will have to use a wheelchair mount to use the firearm.

A borough man has lost the appeal of his reckless manslaughter conviction in the shooting death of a Plainfield man at a party in the borough in August 2000.

The outcomes of close races in South Bound Brook and Somerville remained unchanged after the counting of provisional ballots Friday at the Somerset County Board of Elections.

The Somerville Area Senior Artists and Crafters presented a check for $600.00 to the Marie Scannell, director of the Food Bank Network of Somerset County.

Set your sails for Scampi's Seafood Restaurant. WHAT: Scampi's Seafood Restaurant.

Robert Petix, 32, started working at his father's seafood market and restaurant part-time as a teenager, when taking a more grown-up role in the eatery wasn't foremost in his mind.

As he gets ready to go to trial for growing marijuana in back of his rented Franklin, Somerset County, home, John Ray Wilson has garnered some influential support.

The Somerset County Business Partnership soon could begin an in-depth series of studies that, depending on the results, pave the way for a life sciences center on part of the borough's 168-acre landfill redevelopment area.

A Somerville woman was hit by a passing motorist Wednesday night after she exited her vehicle on Route 22 eastbound to help an injured deer, according to police.

The structural design and driveway scheme of a proposed 7-Eleven on the corner of Union Avenue and Roosevelt Place will undergo additional scrutiny as the plan remains before the local Planning Board.