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The 37-year-old Plainfield man arrived just after 5 a.m. Monday to his job at Fiddler’s Elbow Country Club, only to be left moments later with two gunshot wounds to his upper body, authorities said. About 90 minutes later, investigators learned that the man who allegedly shot him had taken his own life near a public park in [...]

Matheny Medical and Educational Center has received a $300,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation through its New Jersey Health Initiatives program to develop, implement and test a model for improving the quality of transitional care for persons with chronic health issues and medical complexities associated with developmental disabilities. Matheny’s partners in the project are Morristown [...]

Bernards, Raritan Borough and South Bound Brook are among the Central Jersey communities that will host National Night Out events tonight, giving residents a chance to interact with local public safety officials. National Night Out in Bernards, which takes place 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, will be sponsored by Policemen’s Benevolent Association Local 357, the Bernards Township [...]

Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno met Friday with officials from the Somerset Hills Regional School District, which will receive an increase of $680,000 in state aid for the coming school year. The visit to the district was meant to highlight Gov. Chris Christie’s commitment to education in the fiscal year 2012 state budget, according to a news release [...]

Homeless children will be the beneficiaries when country music comes to Central Jersey for a concert at the Pluckemin Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall on Friday, Aug. 19 at 7 p.m. A Country Concert for Kids will benefit Somerset Home for Temporarily Displaced Children in Bridgewater and Hunterdon Youth Services in Flemington. Both nonprofit agencies provide a temporary [...]

The old municipal building on Hillside Avenue performed one last public service before its planned demolition later this summer. The building was used Thursday evening for a search-and-rescue drill for the Far Hills-Bedminster Fire Department and several other departments and the township’s first aid squad. The building has been gutted by the township’s public works department, said township [...]

A state appellate court has ordered a trial judge to revisit the cases of two teenagers who were ordered to register as Megan’s Law sex offenders after a 2008 bullying incident in the borough. Under the ruling, a Family Court judge now must hold separate hearings that could result in either a new trial or a chance [...]

No major injuries were reported after a crash late Tuesday morning on Interstate 78 West in Bedminster, authorities said. The crash occurred east of Exit 29, causing authorities to close the left and center westbound lanes as of 11:20 a.m., according to the state Department of Transportation. The lanes were reopened a short time later. Troopers from the [...]

Construction should begin by the end of the year on what is considered to be the largest permanent housing project for disabled homeless veterans in Central and Northern Jersey. The project, Valley Brook Village, is targeted for a 16-acre tract on the campus of the Veterans Affairs hospital in the Lyons section of the township. The development is [...]

Investigators have charged a Bedminster man after determining he was driving drunk when he crashed into a township home in May, seriously injuring his teenage daughter, police said. Sarathe Gunasekera, 56, was arrested Monday on counts of assault by auto and child endangerment in connection with the May 21 crash in the township’s Monmouth Junction section. Police say [...]

During recess at Gill St. Bernard’s School, first- through fourth-graders can be seen running around the track with none other than their principal, Peggy Campbell-Rush. The lower school director has been teaching students to love exercise as she does through the Recess Runners, any and all lower school students who want to run with Campbell-Rush during recess. [...]

Two Bernards High School students recently won $500 college scholarships from Millington Savings Bank. Madeline Pescatore and Josemaria Agnese received their awards at the June 9 high school senior awards night presentation. The awards were presented by Matt LoSapio, assistant manager at the bank’s Bernardsville branch. Pescatore will attend Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pa., in the fall to study [...]

The first in a series of free computer classes will take place at Bernardsville Public Library on Wednesday. The topic will be Windows XP, and the class is designed for noncomputer users seeking to gain a basic understanding of PC components and operations in the Microsoft environment. It will cover proper start-up and shut down of the [...]

A fire broke out Sunday at a barn on Lamington Road in the township, requiring help not only from the Bedminster Fire Department, but also from the surrounding towns of Peapack-Gladstone and Bernardsville, the Liberty Corner section of Bernards and the Somerset County tanker task force, according to Christopher Crowell, a Bedminster Fire Department spokesman. The fire [...]

A symphony orchestra performing under the stars and a fireworks display highlighted this year’s Music at Moorland celebration. The annual event, which benefits Somerset Medical Center, was held at Moorland Farms in Far Hills. About 5,000 people attended the June 23 event, which was sponsored by sanofi-aventis U.S., hospital spokeswoman Kathleen Roberts said. Sanofi-aventis has sponsored the event [...]

David McGhee, the general manager of Fiddler’s Elbow Country Club, has been playing golf — or at least doing something golf-related — for nearly his entire life. It began with a high school summer job at Mercer Golf Club in Pennsylvania, not far from where McGhee grew up. His interest turned into a major at Pennsylvania State [...]

A man accused of attacking and robbing a borough man last month is in the custody of local authorities after waiving extradition from Pennsylvania, officials said. Anthony Ramos, 20, of Mount Pocono, Pa., was returned Wednesday to New Jersey and was held in the Somerset County Jail, Somerset County Prosecutor Geoffrey D. Soriano said. Ramos, who was a [...]

A Bernardsville man was arrested Tuesday after he sold an Uzi assault rifle and a supply of ammunition to an undercover detective, authorities said. Samuel J. Medway, 43, faces several weapons charges stemming from the sale and from a search warrant that found two shotguns in his home, Somerset County Prosecutor Geoffrey D. Soriano said. The investigation began [...]

A police pursuit of a stolen motorcycle that stretched for miles on I-78 in Somerset and Union counties early this morning ended with a fatal wreck that claimed the life of the driver, authorities said. David Coleman, 23, of Maplewood was pronounced dead at the scene, having lost control of his vehicle on an entrance ramp leading [...]

Two Central Jersey teens deserve a special hug of congratulations: They are recipients of Build-A-Bear Workshop’s 2011 “Huggable Heroes” award. Shannon Hill-McNama’ra, 18, of the Basking Ridge section of Bernards, and Rujul Zaparde, 16, of Plainsboro, are two of 10 young people from the United States and Canada selected for the award. They were chosen for demonstrating [...]