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The Naturalists of the Somerset County Park Commission Environmental Education Center have announced a new entertaining and educational program for children ages 3 to 5. Tree House Gang is an afternoon program series that will introduce children to science and nature through an enhanced learning program incorporating outdoor hikes, hands-on activities, interaction with live animals, and [...]

From 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday Sept. 12, the Somerset Hills YMCA , 140 Mount Airy Rd. in the Basking Ridge section of Bernards, will host an open house for Adventure Guides and their families with the pool and gymnasium open for use. Refreshments will be served. Families are invited to come along and learn more about [...]

Somerset County Park Commission has announced that the Leonard J. Buck Garden at 11 Layton Road in Far Hills and Colonial Park Gardens in Somerset will participate throughout September in “Native Knowledge,” the first coordinated statewide program of the Garden State Gardens Consortium. Focusing on the importance of native plants in the landscape, 15 New Jersey public gardens [...]

BY MICHAEL DEAK • STAFF WRITER Police are asking the public for any information about an accident this morning in which a bicyclist was struck and seriously injured on West Oak Street near Mt. Airy Road in Bernards. At about 8:16 a.m. police responded to the scene and found a woman in her early 30s laying [...]

Three Somerset Hills residents will be among 18 finalists competing for the honor of singing the National Anthem at the Far Hills Race Meeting this fall. The event will take place Saturday, Oct. 23, at Moorland Farms in Far Hills. According to a story in the Bernardsville News :

Allegra Campbell, 15, of Far Hills, Alexandra Ursino, 14, of Basking Ridge [...]

The Liberty Corner Fire Company will celebrate 100 years of all-volunteer fire and rescue service to Bernards Township. To help commemorate the occasion, a parade and Family Fun Fair is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 25.  The fair will be an old-fashioned family celebration including food, fun, amusement rides, prizes, live entertainment and a DJ. The [...]

BY JEFF GRANT • STAFF WRITER Three New York men face charges of marijuana possession after less than 50 grams of the illegal drug was found in their vehicle during a stop by state police along Interstate 78, troopers said. The arrests were made around 1:15 p.m. Friday along the highway’s westbound lanes about three miles east [...]

The Somerset Hills YMCA is one of 30 Ys selected to receive a grant for $10,000 from The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. to enhance its youth educational programming.  The grant will support  Teen Volunteers in Action , a week-long summer program in which teens learn about five different non-profit organizations while completing service projects for each organization;  Students-Helping-Student Tutoring, a [...]

BY LINDA SADLOUSKOS • STAFF WRITER Laura Clare Pugsley earned a degree in horticulture as part of her training before becoming a florist, but it wasn’t until she lived in Europe that she said she saw how flowers are considered by some to be an essential ingredient of daily life. In Europe, she said, being a florist [...]

BY ROB JENNINGS • STAFF WRITER A 17-year-old driver from Bernardsville was in critical but stable condition on Monday after losing control of his vehicle and being T-boned by a tractor-trailer on Route 287 South, state police said today. The accident at 1:41 p.m. Monday closed two lanes and snarled traffic for several hours. No one [...]

The Greater Somerset County Chapter of the American Red Cross hosted its third annual “Red for Life” breakfast fundraiser on Aug. 24  at Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster,  with an estimated 130 guests. The event highlighted the personal stories of individuals who shared how the Red Cross services changed their lives, including one client who talked about [...]

Now through Sept. 1, Jets Uncorked Cabernet Sauvignon 2008 will be available for pre-arrival purchase at Gary’s Wine & Marketplace or at any of Gary’s three locations in Madison, Bernardsville or Wayne New Jersey. A special pre-arrival price for the first signature wine ever offered by the team has been set for Gary’s Wine & Marketplace customers at $27.99 per [...]

WHAT:     VNA of Somerset Hills Fall Rummage Sale — Donations accepted Sept. 4 to 22 WHEN:   10 a.m. to 1 p.m Monday through Saturday WHERE:  Far Hills Fairgrounds, Rt. 202/Peapack Road SALE DATES & TIMES:  9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 1 and Saturday, Oct. 2; 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. [...]

Fellowship Village will host its annual free family fun day Sept. 11. The Long Hill String Band will play, and the event will feature a petting zoo, pony rides and an inflatable Giant Slide. Activities include caricatures, face painting, balloon animals, air brushed tattoos, photo favors, Asian name painting and games. Attendees can sing at Karaoke Hour [...]

Bernardsville Library’s book discussion group, Saturday Samplers, will meet at 3:30 p.m. Sept. 11 to discuss “The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America’s Finest Hour” (2008) by Andrei Cherny. The author will not be present. Bringing together newly unclassified documents, unpublished letters and diaries and fresh primary interviews, Cherny tells the [...]

By LINDA SADLOUSKOS • STAFF WRITER The Land-Use Board is slated to hold its 33rd hearing tonight on a proposed 49,000-square-foot expansion at the Matheny Medical and Educational Center , with experts for Matheny reportedly set to respond to opposition raised by neighbors. Hearings began Oct. 1, 2008, on Matheny’s application to update and enlarge classrooms and add [...]

Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver will meet with representatives from the Somerset County Business Partnership and the general public at a Legislative Breakfast Forum at 8 a.m. Sept. 10 at the Grain House Restaurant at the Old Mill Inn, Route 202. The forum will provide an opportunity to share ideas and concerns with Trenton leadership. Among the issues to be [...]

The Somerset Hills YMCA announced plans to break ground for construction of the “Melissa Riggio Residence,” a group home which will accommodate six adults with developmental disabilities.  The group home, which is the first to be built nationally by the Y will be on a five-acre property that was donated to is zoned for residential use.  The [...]