Wharton News Archives

New faces are typical at the start of every school year. Students, teachers and staff are in a constant state of rotation from September to September.

MINE HILL - A Dover couple suffered severe injuries when the motorcycle they were riding and a pickup truck collided on Hurd Street on Monday evening, police said.

The Transportation Enhancement Program, a state program that dispenses grant monies to municipalities to improve pedestrian safety projects, notified Mine Hill officials earlier this month that none of its four projects petitioned for grant assistance would be funded.

Eight Morris County public school districts have started the school year locked in negotiations with teachers unions over raises and sharing the cost of health benefits.

WHARTON -- Cassidy Gilroy says 'yeah' a lot. But it's more like "yeeaaahhhh," drawn out in a tone suggesting satisfaction, with just a hint of surprise.

Rod Howard of Wharton, sitting high in the caboose cupola. The Tri-State Railway Historical Society and the Dover Historical Society offered caboose rides as a fundraiser from the North Sussex Street railroad crossing to Wharton on Sunday morning, Aug.

Sharing services was at the top of Barry Lewis' list, when the newly appointed Mountain Lakes manager served in Mine Hill a decade ago and helped create a joint court and police department with Wharton.

This September, Mine Hill and Wharton school districts will begin the school year by sharing three new hires: an interim superintendent, a child study team supervisor and an administrative official who will wear two hats as school business manager and board secretary.

Five central Morris County towns may form a joint municipal health department, to cut costs while providing needed municipal services, officials said today.

He isn't the only one who can claim the unofficial title of "Mr. Woodbury." Jack Scott, the whirlwind volunteer, has carried the tag for years.

On the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, area bands played to approximately 500 teens and young adults on Peterson Field in Rockaway.

Ever wonder what it would be like to cross the country at a leisurely pace, watching the miles unfold from the cupola of a caboose? The Tri-State Railway Historical Society teased the public imagination Sunday, rolling some vintage cabooses from Morristown to Dover, for rides along old freight lines to Wharton and Rockaway.