Hunterdon County News
By TERRY WRIGHT
September 25, 2024
The 2024-2025 Hunterdon County Dairy Princess is Cassidy Hunt of West Amwell Township. A daughter of Tammy and Paul Hunt, she is a freshman at Delaware Valley University majoring in Dairy Science.Cassidy has been a member of the Mount Airy Dairy 4-H club for 12 years and most recently served as the ...
The Farm Crops Show at the 2024 Hunterdon County 4-H and Agricultural Fair attracted several dozen entries in 19 classes. Here are the results:Winter barley, first place, Jake Hoffman, Tewksbury Township; spring oats, first, Greg Manners, East Amwell Township and second, Tom Zeng, Raritan Township; ...
The Hunterdon County 4-H Dairy Show at the recent county 4-H and Agricultural Fair featured a group of excellent animals and enthusiastic Mount Airy Dairy Club members celebrating the beginning of a new century of the 101-year-old club.The day began at daybreak with the final washing and polishing ...
Annabelle Majorossy of Readington Township is 2024 recipient of the Senator’s Trophy for Leadership Excellence.She is the third member of her family to be so honored. Her sister, Grace, was selected in 2016 and brother, Zachary, in 2019. Annabelle’s selection was announced during Opening Ceremonies ...
EAST AMWELL – The Hunterdon County Commissioners, on Sept. 3, agreed by resolution to support the preservation of 5 acres in the Sourland Mountains.The board approved $60,000 to be drawn from the county’s Open Space Trust Fund to provide one-half of the purchase price of $120,000 for the Bowditch ...
The 2024 Hunterdon County 4-H Ambassadors were announced during the Opening Ceremonies of the recent Hunterdon County 4-H and Agricultural Fair.They are Steven Quattrock of West Reading, Pa. and Ashley Vanatta of Flemington and will serve for the new 4-H year which started Sept. 1.Ambassadors have ...
A Bake Off contest took place at the Hunterdon County 4-H and Agricultural Fair, open to members of all 4-H clubs.Lambertville’s Piper Parsons is in the Fur ‘n Feathers club and received first and second place inDivision I, and Creative Kids member Luzie Rea Hotz of Frenchtown won first place in ...
Dozens of entries made by area residents were judged in the Needlework Division of the Home Arts Show at the 2024 Hunterdon County 4-H and Agricultural Fair.Barbara Doughty Lambertville, with her embroidery hardanger on hoop, won a first place and then BEST OF DIVISION and BEST OF SHOW ...
CLINTON TWP. – As the redevelopment of the county’s fire training center moves forward, the board of commissioners on Aug. 20 hired a firm to ensure the supplies purchased for the work are in compliance with a new federal law. In March, the county was allocated $3.2 million in the 2025 federal ...
FRANKLIN TWP. – Changes are coming to Hunterdon County’s Route 617 following a three-vehicle fatal accident in August, including creating an all-ways stop at the intersection where the accident occurred.That accident at the intersection of Route 617 – known in that rural portion of Franklin as ...
HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ - The Hunterdon County Division of Parks and Recreation is launching HOPE 2: Hunterdon Outdoor Park Exploration, an interactive and educational scavenger hunt that has participants following a guide booklet through 14 parks in the county. Guests will take part in a ...
HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ - The Hunterdon County Board of Commissioners backed by resolution on Aug. 6, the legislative effort to raise the New Jersey veterans property tax deduction to $2,500. The current deduction is $250, set more than 20 years ago, said board deputy director Susan Soloway. The ...
HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ - Transportation was on the minds of the Hunterdon County Board of Commissioners Aug. 6 as they approved two transportation grants and heard about the formative plans to repair the historic truss bridge, the “yellow” bridge in Clinton. First, the board approved a $200,000 ...
HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ - All 26 Hunterdon County municipalities filed applications for funding under the county’s $1 million municipal infrastructure support program, administrator Brad Myhre told the county board of commissioners July 2. The infrastructure program was the second of three such ...
FLEMINGTON, NJ – For a moment in 1935, it is safe to say that Flemington was probably the most famous place in the world. That was the year Flemington hosted the “Trial of the Century,” the Lindburgh baby kidnapping trial. That trial, held at the Historic Hunterdon County Courthouse, produced ...
HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ - The effort to promote tourism in Hunterdon Country has added a tour of local eateries by a celebrity chef and influencers recording their visits to county towns. The county’s director of economic development Marc Saluk outlined these new efforts on June 4 to the Hunterdon ...
FLEMINGTON, NJ - First there were the nonprofits in need, then there were the Hunterdon County towns in need of help with some municipal projects. Now it’s town parks. At the June 18 meeting the Hunterdon County Board of Commissioners approved the third leg of director Jeff Kuhl’s plan to ...
FLEMINGTON – If only measured by its tax rate, then the state of Hunterdon County would be falling. County Board of Commissioners director Jeff Kuhl told the audience at the annual Hunterdon County Chamber of Commerce state of the county breakfast June 18 that the 2024 county tax rate has ...
HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ - One last funding measure to kick-start the construction of a new Hunterdon County Vocational High School campus was introduced June 4 by the Hunterdon County Board of Commissioners. The public hearing on the $1.25 million bond will be July 3. The new 36,000-square-foot ...
CLINTON TWP – Hunterdon County will exit the trash business at the end of the year. But in the meantime, it will pay to keep the county’s transfer station and material handling facility on Petticoat Lane open until the sale of the facility to current operator Waste Management LLC is finalized in ...
HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ - The Hunterdon County Board of Commissioners has joined the cry from the New Jersey Association of Counties (NJAC) to allow government boards and school boards to publish legal notices in newspaper websites and digital publications, skipping the print editions of such ...