Stanhope News

During the prime months of fall, we asked you to post your fall colors photos. You responded in a big way! All you have to do is check out the Fall Colors gallery to see how many we got.

STANHOPE - In a tight race for two, three-year terms, Republican George Graham was the top-vote-getter with 709 votes, while Independent Brian Murphy won 640, with both winning seats on the borough council.

Six inmates who claimed they were forced to live in raw sewage in the Sussex County jail settled their federal lawsuit against the county and state for about $25,000, according to court papers.

STANHOPE -- Jennifer Staab and Ronald Albertson exchanged marriage vows during a ceremony performed by the Rev.

ROCKAWAY - Maureen Ferguson of Rockaway announces the engagement of her daughter Shannon L. Ferguson of Stanhope to Stanhope resident Gregory F. McGroarty.

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A new report shows minor pollution has mired the borough's plans to rehabilitate a part of the old Morris Canal.

STANHOPE -- Mary Runne of Stanhope and Gary Runne of Lake Hiawatha announce the engagement of their daughter Tracey Lynn Runne of Stanhope to Marvin H. Autrey III of Landing.

By BRUCE A. SCRUTON bscruton@njherald.com All but three clinics sponsored by the Sussex County Health Department to give regular flu shots have been postponed until later this fall because manufacturers have been diverted to produce the H1N1 swine flu vaccine.

A proposed $551 million project to restore rail service from Scranton, Pa., to Hoboken, including a major branch through Sussex County, cleared a major environmental hurdle Friday, officials said.

The seminal New Jersey band From Good Homes will reunite for two shows this December.

NEWARK, N.J. - A huge poetry festival won't go on hiatus next year after all. The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation says it will hold its festival in 2010 and in a new location: Newark.

STANHOPE - A 29-year-old borough man was arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and making terroristic threats after he allegedly assaulted his mother at their Dell Road home at 4:09 a.m. Saturday.

Jersey charm paid off for Mrs. Congeniality, Jennifer Macones. Macones, the reigning Mrs.

The wine will be flowing and the music will be playing when the Jazz It Up Wine Festival returns to Allaire State Park this Labor Day weekend.

On June 14, 1921, Albert Koster was riding his motorcycle through Byram on his way to work in Stanhope when he happened upon a robbery and was murdered.

Leave early, beat the crowd. "Roads are clear," the traffic man vowed. The Parkway's jammed, accident ahead.

NETCONG - A black nut that looks more like a set of tiny vampire fangs than fruit is causing havoc at Lake Musconetcong.

Swarms of mosquitoes that used to attack mostly at night are now making life unbearable all day long, according to lakeside residents from four communities who accused the state Department of Environmental Protection yesterday of failing to maintain the silted and weed-infested waterway.

STANHOPE - Firefighters from Stanhope and Netcong extinguished an electrical fire in a storage building at Paramount Self Storage on Route 183 on Friday night.