Sussex County News

Sussex County officials are making an urgent public plea for food donations during this season of giving.

Mary Ellen Vichiconti, an Independent candidate who lost her bid for a Vernon Township Committee seat in the Nov.

Registration for the Spring semester at Sussex County Community College -- now in full swing.

"It gives us an idea about what college we might want to go to," said Tabitha of Franklin Borough, a junior at Sussex Tech who is thinking about majoring in criminal justice and hopes to someday join the FBI.

David Messineo is a 2009 New Jersey State Jefferson Awards recipient. He was nominated by John J. Trause, who wrote the following essay describing his service background.

Prescription bottles and over-the-counter medications -- even Metamucil -- filled a cardboard container at ShopRite to the brim Saturday with an hour left to go in the first statewide medication disposal program in the nation.

Police in this Sussex County town are continuing an investigation into claims that an injured deer shot twice by an officer allegedly lived for several hours, and police will undergo training on how to properly shoot an animal, said Chief John Swanson.

Police are investigating two neighbors' claims that a deer shot twice by an officer lived at least for four more hours, cradled in the lap of a sympathetic resident.

A Mount Olive Police officer got a head start on the 2010 election for Sussex County Sheriff by holding a fundraising kickoff Thursday night.

Photo by Daniel Freel/New Jersey Herald Annika Szalkowski, 21/2, of Fredon, center, cries as she is held by her father, Richard, right, while receiving a swine flu vaccine shot from nurse Dawn Hall, left, during an infant and toddler swine flu vaccine clinic Sunday at Sussex County Community College.

A 54-year-old Blairstown man is being held in jail for allegedly engaging in sexually explicit Web chats with who he thought was a 14-year-old girl, the Sussex County Prosecutor's Office said.

1 deadline yesterday for a plea bargain agreement to be reached in the case of a Sussex County man charged with killing his wife.

Photo by Daniel Freel/New Jersey Herald Croceann Moreira, of Wantage, transfers a bag of food from her cart to a food drive cart as the Wanderers Car Club gathers in the parking lot of the A&P supermarket, in Sussex Borough, Sunday for a food drive benefiting the Sussex Help Center.

Herald Staff Report newsroom@njherald.com A class trip became fodder for the swine flu rumor-mill earlier this week, as 16 out of 78 eighth-graders at Frankford School became ill with flu-like symptoms after a two-day trip to Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia.

By BRUCE A. SCRUTON bscruton@njherald.com Nearly 40 Sussex County residents are being sought by the federal government wanting to give them a tax refund.

Sussex County, NJ Focus You can find local events in Sussex County from the Sussex County Democratic Party Calendar and the Sussex County website .

When all was said and done, New Jerseyans again decided to spend more green to be more green.

People gathered in Newton yesterday to remember a Sussex County Community College student who died in a car accident.

File Photo by Kelly Hill/New Jersey Herald Marge McCabe, administrator of the Sussex County Board of Elections, performs public testing on the iVotronic voting machines in preparation for last yeara s presidential election.

Congress has earmarked $4 million for New Jersey Highlands preservation in its Interior Department appropriations, effectively quadrupling its previous allotment.