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By TAPINTO PHILLIPSBURG STAFF
November 11, 2025
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ – It's the most wonderful time of the year to be a Stateliner! As the legendary Thanksgiving Day game against Easton approaches, the Phillipsburg High School (PHS) Band Boosters are gearing up to paint the town Garnet and Gray once again with the return of their "Gimme a P" ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Cold temperatures couldn’t keep the community away as Phillipsburg saw one of its largest Veterans Day turnouts in years at Shappell Park on November 11, 2025. As flags waved in the crisp November air, heartfelt words were shared by Chaplain Enrique Davis of the Phillipsburg ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Phillipsburg High School senior end Aedan Hywel has been a menace on defense all season, actually the last two seasons, and collected his 12th and a half sack of the year in last week’s 35-7 victory over Colonia in a North 2 Group 4 sectional semifinal contest.Hywel has a total ...
HAMILTON, NJ - When the Hamilton Township Patriotic Committee gathered on August 5, 2017 to unveil a statue commemorating the US Coast Guard, they thought they were through erecting monuments for the various branches of the United States Military, Ronnie Steward, on the HTPC's Trustees reflected on ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - What an amazing, pressure filled turnaround in the last nine minutes of regulation time for the Phillipsburg High School field hockey team on a chilly Monday afternoon.The Stateliners offense was a cold as the weather, which was a real-feel 30 degrees because of gusting-winds, ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Unofficial results released November 10 show four democrats appear to have flipped control of the Phillipsburg Town Council, setting the stage for a new political dynamic in Warren County’s largest town. The stakes were high in Tuesday’s election, as Democrats sought to ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - The Town of Phillipsburg has begun the annual Leaf Collection Program throughout town and will continue through Monday, December 15, 2025.The Department of Public Services will be collecting and removing leaves from streets and road gutters throughout the Town using leaf ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Freshman Noah Davis was Phillipsburg High School’s top runner with a 43rd-place finish and junior Anthony Pettinelli came in 47th to lead the boy’s cross-country team to a 10th-place finish in the NJSIAA Group cross-country championship meet at Holmdel Park on Saturday.Manalapan ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ – Already thinking about the gift giving season? Get a jump start on the holiday season shopping while supporting your neighbors and small businesses! Sullivan's Mercantile is excited to announce the inaugural "St. Nick's Shopping Spectacular," an evening event designed to champion ...
Irwin W. Schultz was born in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, on December 6, 1855. He graduated from Phillipsburg High School in 1875, as a member of its first four-year graduating class. At that time, the school was located in the Freeman Building—known as “The Crystal Palace”—on Fillmore Street, where ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ — Tucked along the perimeter of Walters Park in Phillipsburg, a quiet, community-based memorial offers a space for reflection, grief, and advocacy on a difficult topic: addiction. A dedicated tree and accompanying bench, marked by the splash of purple—especially around ...
PHILLIPSBURG,NJ - The New Jersey Department of Human Services (DHS) has announced the immediate issuance of full November 2025 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to eligible residents, following a federal court order that made funding available despite the ongoing federal ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Andrew Johnson scored a pair of goals as host Westfield ended Phillipsburg High School’s boy’s soccer season with a 4-0 victory on Friday in a North 2 Group 4 sectional quarterfinal round game.The Stateliners came into the game after winning five of its previous six matches with ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - The Phillipsburg High School school-record setting girl’s volleyball team won the second set after dropping the first before Union City came back to win the next two to eliminate the Stateliners from playoff contention in a North 2 Group 4 sectional semifinal game on Friday ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Phillipsburg High School executed its offensive game plan to perfection in the first half and Tyler Wargo and Sam Dech combined for five rushing touchdowns to lead the Stateliners to a 35-7 victory over Colonia on a rainy Friday night in a North 2 Group 4 sectional semifinal ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - The road to the North 2 Group 4 field hockey sectional title goes though Phillipsburg and the Stateliners are taking full advantage so far this postseason.Top-seeded Phillipsburg High School broke open a tight 1-0 game at halftime with four second half goals to defeat No. 9 ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Two scholastic opponents who have completely different offensive philosophies square off when Colonia visits Phillipsburg High School on Friday night in a North 2 Group 4 sectional semifinal football game. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. for the game on Bellis Field at Maloney ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - The Phillipsburg High School girl’s volleyball team got off to its typically bad start once again in its North 2 Group 4 quarterfinal matchup against Columbia on Wednesday.And like they usually do this season, they came back from it to win another match.Erica Myers and Camryn ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Nearly 600 students filled the Phillipsburg Elementary School gymnasium on Tuesday, November 5, to pay tribute to the men and women who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces. The annual Veterans Day ceremony honored 34 veterans connected to students at the school, combining ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - The boy’s soccer team was already yet another success story this fall for Phillipsburg High School athletics.And that was before the 11th-seeded Stateliners traveled to play at No. 6 Elizabeth on Tuesday and upset the Minutemen in a shootout in an NJSIAA North 2 Group 4 first ...
NEW JERSEY — Democrat Mikie Sherrill was elected governor over Republican Jack Ciattarelli on Tuesday to become the first woman from her party to lead the Garden State. With almost 90% of ballots counted, Sherrill had 56% of the vote to Ciattarelli’s 44%, according to The Associated Press, which ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ—Voters took to the polls today for the 2025 General Election. There's a shift of power as the voters selected four democrats in Phillipsburg and newcomer, Ed Saultz, who is a Republican and was tapped to fill a vacated seat earlier this year will keep his seat on town council. Each ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ—Voters took to the polls today for the 2025 General Election. Each party’s ballots included the Governor, General Assembly, County Sheriff, County Commissioner, and Phillipsburg Council Member, as well as the Phillipsburg Board of Education. We will only be publishing Warren County ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ—Voters took to the polls today for the 2025 General Election. Each party’s ballots included the Governor, General Assembly, County Sheriff, County Commissioner, and Phillipsburg Council Member, as well as the Phillipsburg Board of Education. We will only be publishing Warren County ...
The traditional Phillipsburg-Easton rivalry kicked off its "Rivalry Month" chapter on November 3, 2025, at Bellis Field inside Maloney Stadium, and the Liners made a definitive statement. BEAT EASTON is always a goal. A goal the Liners can consider accomplished. Almost.Phillipsburg’s powerhouse ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Emma Butler, Jackie Miller and Bella Turdo each scored two goals and Jordan Nonnemacher made four saves to lead top-seeded Phillipsburg High School to a 7-0 throttling of No. 16 Mount Olive in a North Jersey Group 4 first-round field hockey game on Tuesday at the Phillipsburg ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) says Phillipsburg’s bid to sell or lease its wastewater system falls short, meeting only half of the emergent conditions required under the Water Infrastructure Protection Act (WIPA). Residents may now have the final ...
TRENTON – Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Consumer Affairs today urged New Jerseyans to beware of potential scams targeting Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients facing fear and uncertainty amid the government shutdown. Scammers impersonating SNAP ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Junior middle blocker Alexa Megjugorac collected 11 kills, eight digs and service points and six blocks to lead host Phillipsburg High School past Linden in three straight sets in a NJSIAA North 2 Group 4 first round girl’s volleyball match on Monday.P’burg, the No. 3 seed, won ...
WARREN COUNTY, NJ - Police K-9 teams in Warren County will no longer need to travel long distances for critical training, following the ribbon-cutting for the new county Law Enforcement K-9 Training Facility at the Warren County Public Safety building.The facility, developed by the Warren County ...