Hunterdon County News
By MICHAEL DAIGLE
June 5, 2026
RARITAN TOWNSHIP — The Hunterdon County commissioners, on June 2, approved a contract for the construction of the Hilltop Reserve Sept. 11 memorial.Hilltop Reserve, at 205 Thatchers Hill Road, is a county-owned open space and natural area adjacent to the 108-acre Urbach Farm.The $132,065 contract ...
HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ - Hunterdon County will use $401,359 in federal funds to improve rural health care services throughout the county.The board of commissioners accepted the grant by resolution at the May 19 meeting.County administrator Brad Myhre, substituting for health department director Karen ...
HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ - A bridge on Route 579 that was damaged in 2023; design and construction of improvements at the Route 31 senior center; a few hundred acres of land and development rights spread across the county; facilities and other improvements in assorted county parks; and five SUVs for ...
RARITAN TOWNSHIP – The spot on Thatcher Hill Road for Hunterdon County’s permanent 9/11 memorial was selected because it provides a window into the past and the opportunity to teach new generations about the day the United States was attacked in 2001, Sheriff Fred Brown said as he described the ...
HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ - Agritourism is a growing part of the effort to support local businesses through the Hunterdon County Department of Economic Development and Tourism.With that in mind, the county board of commissioners approved by resolution May 5 an expansion of tourism related signs on key ...
FLEMINGTON – The Hunterdon County Board of Commissioners, on May 5, took another step toward completing the expansion of the chancery court at the county justice center.The state court system is consolidating the chancery division of the Somerset-Hunterdon-Warren vicinage in the Hunterdon ...
CLINTON TWP. – The transfer of the Hunterdon County transfer station to operator Waste Management Inc. is nearly complete two years after a sales agreement was reached.The sale of the Petticoat Lane facility was hampered by a fire last year that damaged the waste handling operation.On May 5, the ...
RARITAN TOWNSHIP – Looking east is memory.The sweeping fields of the Hilltop Reserve lead the eyes to a tree line and the roofs of homes, then to the horizon that on clear sunny days glints with the glimmer of Manhattan’s skyscrapers.One day 25 years ago, that horizon was smudged with smoke.It is ...
Four years ago Marc Saluk thought promotion of tourism in Hunterdon County was not a serious effort.Now, Saluk, the director of the county’s office of economic development and tourism, told the county board of commissioners April 23 that in order for the county to maintain leadership in its ...
HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ - The Hunterdon County Board of Commissioners have big plans for the proposed 2026 county budget, including a significant investment for renovations at the county’s senior center, more funds for municipal emergency services and support of a new advanced manufacturing program at ...
HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ – Hunterdon County and its largest union agreed to a three-year contract with a 4% wage hike.The memorandum of understanding with CWA Local 1036 that covers 2026 to 2028 was announced at the April 7 meeting of the county board of commissioners.The union local includes rank and ...
HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ - The Hunterdon County Board of Commissioners, by resolution April 7, purchased land and development rights for 297 acres of open space in three municipalities.The purchases totaled $1.018 million, and the county’s share will be drawn from the county’s open space fund.Four of ...
HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ - The continuing effort to restore the water quality of the Musconetcong River Watershed received a $146,000 boost on March 17.The county board of commissioners, by resolution, accepted the funds from the New Jersey Highlands Council to bring the total of that state agency’s ...
HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ - Officials from Hunterdon County and Frenchtown are again discussing the challenge of slowing down drivers on Kingwood Avenue, a connector road from the center of the borough to Route 12, the main west to east road from the borough to Flemington.Kingwood Avenue is also ...
KINGWOOD – The Hunterdon County Board of Commissioners on March 3 signed off on a resolution supporting the construction of a New Jersey State Police facility on Route 12 by the Cumberland County Improvement Authority.County administrator Brad Myhre explained that the Cumberland County authority ...
HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ - Between 2017 and 2021, 19 people were killed in car accidents in Hunterdon County, and 64 were seriously injured.Those statistics are at the heart of an effort approved by the county board of commissioners on March 3 to reduce the number of road fatalities to zero by 2050.The ...
HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ - The Hunterdon County board of commissioners, by resolution, added another farm to the growing list of preserved farmland in the township.At the Feb. 17 meeting, the commissioners approved a development easement for the 32.75-acre Malavasi Farm on Oak Grove Road, a section of ...
CLINTON TOWNSHIP – The AmeriCorps Watershed Ambassador program will again join the groups working to stabilize a section of eroding bank along the Raritan River.AmeriCorps NJ Watershed Ambassadors educate the public on watershed science and encourage them to get involved in local stewardship ...
HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ - Winter storms are about numbers.So that’s what Dan Bush, director of the Hunterdon County Department of Public Works, provided at the March 3 meeting of the county board of commissioners.The county overall has seen about 37 inches of snow during the 2025–2026 winter, which ...
FLEMINGTON – In another effort to help Flemington complete its new police building, the Hunterdon County Board of Commissioners approved by resolution on Feb. 17 a $99,031 Community Development Block Grant.The grant specifies the funds must be used to complete construction several ADA compliant ...
HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ - Hunterdon County issued Feb. 17 a new contract to operate its popular household hazardous waste collection program.The $133,170 contract was awarded to Radiac Research Corp., of Brooklyn. Purchasing agent Ray Rule, Jr., said it is a one-year contract, with an option for a ...
HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ - Hunterdon County is prepared to offer a Code Blue warming center on a pop-up basis through the end of winter.Board of commissioners director John Lanza announced at the Feb. 17 meeting that the center will be open as needed at the Route 12 county complex in Raritan ...
HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ - The Hunterdon County Board of Commissioners, on Feb. 3, took steps to further support the county’s goals of farmland and open space preservation.The county is home to thousands of acres of farmland and preserved open space.At the January reorganization meeting, the board said ...
HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ - Hunterdon County celebrated, at the Feb. 3 county board of commissioners meeting, the awarding of $250,000 in state grants in support of historic and cultural, and local arts organizations.The grants were announced by Natalie Zaman, director of the county’s culture and ...
HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ - Hunterdon County wants all drivers to slow down.So to make sure they do, the county board of commissioners, on Feb. 3 lowered the speed limits in both directions on an 11-mile stretch of Route 523 from Stockton to Raritan Township.The speed restrictions are parceled out over ...
HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ - Hunterdon County officially entered the improvement authority business Feb. 3 with a resolution establishing a $53,000 fund.The fund, said county administrator Brad Myhre, is designed to cover the costs of professional services necessary to operate the authority.Approved for ...
HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ - Officer Raymond Scarpa III and Investigator Jarren Mann were honored by the Hunterdon County Sheriff’s Office as the 2025 Hunterdon County Officers of the Year.Scarpa, a member of the sheriff’s office since 2018, was recognized for his actions with the Hunterdon County ...
HUNTERODN COUNTY, NJ - Hunterdon County approved a contract for the 2026 electronic recycling program Jan. 20.The contract is with Newtech Recycling Inc., and will run from Feb. 1 to Jan. 31, 2027.The county offers the electronics recycling program at the Route 12 complex in Raritan Township four ...
HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ - To celebrate recent investments in its parks, the Hunterdon County Parks and Recreation division unveiled a new logo Jan. 20.The county board of commissioners approved the logo by resolution.The logo includes a new scene of hills and streams and fresh colors.“This is ...
HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ - With weeks of frigid weather behind, and the possibility of a significant snow storm arriving Jan. 25, the Hunterdon County Board of Commissioners was reminded that the county has a housing problem.The message was delivered Jan. 20 by Alexandria school board president, and ...