BASKING RIDGE, NJ — Basking Ridge Country Club PGA Head golf professional Sue Delaney and her daughter, Jennifer, conducted a golf clinic teaching Deaf and Hard of Hearing students from Governor Livingston High School. This groundbreaking clinic was remarkable in that it was taught all while using American Sign Language.

Jennifer Delaney is a rising senior at Towson University in ...

Middle school athletics flourishes at Frelinghuysen

MORRISTOWN, NJ -  As Frelinghuysen Middle School Athletic Director Marc Gold reviewed the results of the school’s year in sports--a banner year at that, with five county championships--he noticed that three student-athletes had each played on a championship team in all three seasons of 2018-19:  Girls Soccer in the fall, Girls ...

MORRISTOWN, NJ - The Morristown High School freshman softball team, under Don Trifari has a lot to be proud of.

Despite the rainy season, the Colonials started off the season in a big way by shutting out Parsippany Hills, 17-0. The team which consisted of eleven players, finished the 2019 season with a record of 5-1. 

"The next two games were won by an impressive ...

WORCESTER, MA (06/11/2019)-- Jake Tappen of Morristown, a member of the class of 2020 majoring in aerospace engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), was a member of a student team that recently completed an intense, hands-on research through the WPI project center in Mandi, India. The project was titled Integrating Earthquake Preparedness at IIT-Mandi. In their project ...

MORRISTOWN, NJ -  Four scholarships  are available to law students, college and graduate students, announced the County Prosecutors Association of New Jersey.  Each scholarship is a one-year grant in the amount of up to $3,500.00 paid directly to the recipient.  Scholarship recipients from previous years are ineligible.

The County Prosecutors Association of the State of ...

MORRISTOWN, NJ - Morristown High School has announced the top two academic achievement awards for the Class of 2018 - Valedictorian and Salutatorian. This year's honors go to Anna Cliche, Valedictorian and Abigail (Abby) Gringeri, Salutatorian.

Cliche is described by her guidance counselor, Kristina Kenny, as someone who is poised, confident, personable and urbane. She plans ...

MORRISTOWN, NJ - Six more local students have earned the Dean's List recognition from their respective colleges and universities.

Emily Santen and Kelsey Mirabella have been named to The University of Scranton's Spring 2019 Deans' List. Santen is a freshman occupational therapy major and Mirabella is a senior counsling and human services major. 

Amanda Geffner was named to ...

MORRISTOWN, NJ - Eight students have earned President's List and Dean's List honors from area universities and colleges.

Gwyn G. Atkian, Emma Catherine Davis and Meghan Elizabeth McGuinness have all been named to the President's List at Clemson University for the spring 2019 semester. Atkian is a marketing major. Davis is a communication major. McGuinness is an accounting ...

RANDOLPH, NJ – County College of Morris (CCM) and the Mt. Olive School District today signed the college’s first dual enrolment agreement that will provide high school students with the opportunity to begin their higher education early.

Through the partnership, CCM will provide Mt. Olive High School students with a pathway to start earning college credits, while exploring college ...

TRENTON, NJ - It will almost be two years to the date that Rockaway's Mallory Grossman took her own life as a result of the constant bullying from some of her classmates. Mallory was 12 years old.

Today in Trenton, "Mallory's Law" was passed by the Senate Education Committee.

"Mallory's Law" would revise provisions required in a school district's ...

Washington, DC – Today, Representative Mikie Sherrill (NJ-11), Vice Chair of the Servicewomen and Women Veterans Caucus, announced the introduction of a resolution designating Women Veterans Appreciation Day to recognize the service and sacrifices of women veterans who have served valiantly on behalf of the United States. Representative Sherrill’s resolution is a companion ...

MORRIS TOWNSHIP, NJ - The Morris Township Fire Department conducted a hazmat drill at the Morris Township Sewer Plant on Saturday, June 15.  The drill served as the conclusion of a weeklong execution of the Department’s Third Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness (HMEP) grant.

The funding provided by the grant ensures that firefighters have the proper equipment and ...

PARSIPPANY, NJ - For the first time in Morris County's history, a man has been found guilty of Human Trafficking by a local jury.  A North Carolina man was convicted of drugging two young females, aged 15 and 17 and forcing them to engage in acts of prostitution in both a Rockaway Township hotel and a Parsippany hotel.  The man faces a lifetime prison sentence with no ...

MORRIS TOWNSHIP, NJ -  The Morris Township Department of Parks and Recreation has announced the lineup for the Free Summer Family Movie Night. Movies will be shown at Ginty Field, next to the Morris Township Municipal Complex on Woodland Avenue. Movie time is at dusk, approximately 8:30 PM. 

The Big Screen Outdoor Movies for 2019 are:

Ralph Breaks the Internet (PG); ...

RANDOLPH, NJ ­­— Morristown resident John Lyssikatos is among the students displaying work in the County College of Morris' Summer Art Exhibition.

In addition to Lyssikatos, work by Susan Harrsch of West Milford, Lia Scherr of Rockaway, Sarah Sci of Mendham, Kevin Testa of Chester and Allison Zavaleta of Stirling will be featured.

A free reception that is open to the ...

Certain taxpayers might get a letter from the IRS this year. It’s called an IRS Notice CP 2000. It gives detailed information about issues the IRS identified. The IRS sends this notice when information from a third party doesn't match the information the taxpayer reported on their tax return. The notice also provides steps taxpayers should take to resolve those issues.

Here is some ...

BASKING RIDGE, NJ - TAPinto “Spotlight on Business” features local businesses and their owners who are important to our communities. Follow this column to receive a fresh perspective on small business owners and their unique needs while shining a spotlight on their stories. This edition features Basking Ridge Country Club (BRCC) located at 185 Madisonville Road in Basking ...

SUMMIT, NJ – Alzheimer’s Association Greater New Jersey Chapter (AAGNJ)—the state’s leading voluntary not-for-profit health organization focused on Alzheimer’s care, support and research—teamed up with Atlantic Health System Overlook Medical Center’s Neuroscience Institute last week to host a research symposium that coincides with AAGNJ’s efforts to ...

Morristown Medical Center Receives 2019 Breakthrough Performance in Hand Hygiene Compliance Award

Morristown—Atlantic Health System’s Morristown Medical Center has been recognized nationally for its clinical team’s exceptional hand hygiene.

The medical center received the 2019 Breakthrough Performance in Hand Hygiene Compliance Award, which recognizes the sole hospital in ...

Pillsbury Best 5 lb Flour has been recalled by Hometown Food Company. The company initiated a voluntary recall on approximately 4,600 cases of Bread Flour due to the potential presence of pathogenic E.Coli. There have been no reports of any illnesses associated with this recall, said the company.

Hometown Food Company has been informed by ADM Milling Co., that certain wheat used to make ...

FANWOOD, NJ -- June 15 is National Lobster Day, a celebration of the tasty crustacean. 

The transformation of lobster from being a food that was eaten by the poor to being a delicacy is one of the great rebrandings in history, according to an article in Pacific Standard magazine. In pre-Revolutionary times, it was considered "the cockroach of the ocean," and prisoners even ...

NEWS BRUNSWICK, NJ - Warming waters in the western tropical Pacific Ocean have significantly increased thunderstorms and rainfall, which may affect the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and global sea-level rise, according to a Rutgers University–New Brunswick study.

Since the mid-1990s, West Antarctica – a massive ice sheet that sits on land – has been ...

ROXBURY, NJ – A Roxbury company has been chosen by the county to begin taking down nearly 900 trees as the first phase of a county-wide program to deal with Emerald Ash Borer infestation.

The county freeholders agreed to pay the company, Tree King of Landing, $498,465 for the work. Tree King will remove 880 diseased trees in Long Hill and Morris Township as the “first ...

MORRISTOWN, NJ - The Morristown community has lost one of their own.

For Chris and Sarah Kaiser, life's most cherished moments happened in Morristown. Chris proposed to Sarah on the Morristown Green. Chris and Sarah bought their first house and called Morristown home. And just recently, the couple announced that the baby they had always wanted was now on the way... a baby ...

MORRISTOWN, NJ - Morristown residents Sigrid Franzblau and Noelle Shea were among the group of community volunteers sworn in as Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA). 

Other volunteers sworn in on June 12 included  Amanda Maxwell (Parsippany), Denise Thierwechter (Towaco), Frank Thierwechter (Towaco), Pauline Alexander (Chester), Taunia Markvicka (Sparta), Elizabeth ...

Add a bit of cool flavor to your beverages and meals this summer with homegrown mint.  Try using peppermint leaves in fruit cocktails and ice cream.  Add spearmint to your tea or use the leaves to season lamb and jelly. Or try chocolate mint for a unique sweet and refreshing flavor in desserts and drinks.

This vigorous plant is easy to grow and suited to container ...

MORRISTOWN, NJ -  The Spring has brought alot of rain to Morris County, leading to wet, swampy areas all throughout the county. Morris County's mosquito control teams have been working hard trying to treat and eliminate breeding grounds for mosquito larvae. 

“We understand the problems mosquitoes can cause in the day-to-day lives of county residents, especially those ...

CLIFTON, NJ - The efforts of The Palestinian American Community Center’s (PACC) Civic Engagement Team to engage more Arabic speakers in the voting process for the upcoming 2019 state elections and 2020 Presidential election took a big step forward on May 29 when it was announced that New Jersey’s voter registration forms became available in their native language for the first ...

MORRISTOWN, NJ - The unofficial results of the 2019 Democrat and Republican primary election have been announced.  Morris County Freeholder Heather Darling, a Roxbury lawyer, on Tuesday narrowly defeated state Assemblyman Michael Patrick Carroll for the Republican nomination to run for county surrogate.

She will face-off against Democrat Michael Thompson in November.

Another Roxbury ...

MORRISTOWN, NJ - As a steady stream of people picked up free Narcan at Rite Aid Pharmacy in Morristown on Tuesday, staff of the Morris County Sheriff’s Office Hope One vehicle were ready to train them on administering the life-reviving antidote that reverses an opioid overdose.

Navigating Hope, a Morris County-run outreach vehicle like Hope One that brings social services guidance and ...

TRENTON – New Jersey has joined a multi-state settlement that will result in a total of more than $625,000 in debt relief for 48 New Jersey borrowers who obtained loans from an education lender known as Student CU Connect in order to attend the failed private college ITT Tech, announced Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal.

In New Jersey and across the nation, ITT Tech students were ...

MORRISTOWN, NJ - The Juneteenth Celebration is an event held  to commemorate freedom for all people. The event, held on the Morristown Green marks the end of slavery with a Freedom Walk, a civil war re-enactment, a historical bar crawl, and a conversation on race. There was a gathering on the green where music, readings and songs inspired by the African American experience were ...

MONTVILLE, NJ – Approximately 75 people gathered at the Montville United Methodist Church in Towaco May 10 for an interfaith Iftar dinner. The Iftar is the meal that Muslims eat after sunset during the holy month of Ramadan to break their daily fast. Christians, Jews and Muslims ate together at the meal, sponsored by the Peace Islands Institute, to learn something about the Islamic faith ...

With the first overall pick in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft, the New Jersey Devils could select one of two young players who have been coined as “generational” talents by analysts and scouts across the league. Making this decision all the more exciting is that the second overall pick in this year’s draft belongs to the Devils’ rivals across the Hudson in the New York Rangers.

NEW JERSEY - It took a while for Father's Day to be embraced by the nation. Father's Day did not become a thing until 1972. Moms, on the other hand, had a day designated in their honor 58 years earlier. It took a bit, but eventually Father's Day was set for the third Sunday in June. Father's Day is June 16 and there are an abundant of fun, family-friendly ways to celebrate dad ...

Farmstead Arts Center, located at 450 King George Road in Basking Ridge, welcomes the Garden State Watercolor Society as their artists present “Small but Mighty” a small works exhibition in the Farm House Gallery from June 23 to August 3.

There will be an opening reception on Sunday, June 23 from 1:00 - 4:00 pm. Free admission. Many of the artists will be present at the opening ...