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By JON "FERRIS" MEREDITH
February 4, 2025
WAYNE, NJ – In the first of what is hoped to become a much larger, annual event, Wayne Valley High School hosted “The Queen of the Mats,” an all-girl wrestling jamboree. Valley’s head wrestling coach, Todd Schroeder, who helped put the event together, said that they hope that this first female meet ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ – Is it Election day or Groundhog Day? Neither, but Phillipsburg now has two of three seats held by Republicans open after a second member has resigned on Feb. 4, 2025. Councilwoman Meliss Paulus, has also resigned. Phillipsburg will soon see new faces on the town council, not the ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Phillipsburg Councilman Matthew Scerbo, Sr. announced his resignation from the Phillipsburg Town Council effective immediately. “With a heavy heart, I stand before you today announcing my resignation from the Phillipsburg Town Council and my decision to leave politics ...
The Phillipsburg/Belvidere boys swimming team took the top three places in four individual races and Violet Anglum was a double-winner to pace the girl’s team in a Stateliner/County Seater sweep of Piscataway in a NJSIAA first round North 2 Group A meet at Phillipsburg’s Elementary School.The boys ...
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, NJ — Mario M. Kranjac has entered the 2025 New Jersey Governor's race.Kranjac is a New Jersey native who previously served as mayor of Englewood Cliffs. He announced his candidacy Sunday on Truth Social.“@realDonaldTrump PROVED WE CAN PUT AMERICA FIRST,” a statement from Kranjac ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ – The Phillipsburg Stateliner Cheerleaders are heading to the National High School Cheerleading Championship (NHSCC) in Orlando, Florida, and they gave fans a special preview of their performance before making the trip.The team took center stage at Phillipsburg High School on ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - The annual Phillipsburg-Easton swimming rivalry brought intense competition indoors on Saturday, February 1, 2025 at Phillipsburg Elementary School. While the Phillipsburg boys’ team captured multiple individual victories, it was Easton’s depth that secured a 92-78 victory.
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - The Town of Phillipsburg recently announced that a number of sewer accounts had an interest charge printed on their billing statements and some residents are not obliged to pay the fee. The notice comes from a Jan. 31 email sent out by the town reading, “If one of the accounts ...
TRENTON, NJ – A diverse and recognizable group of 13 New Jersey residents will have six months to recommend ways that the Office of the Attorney General can “further its mission of eliminating corruption, promoting transparency, and strengthening the public’s trust in government.”New Jersey ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Matthew Scerbo Jr. and Malachi (Taco) McKelvin combined for 51 points and 17 rebounds to carry Phillipsburg High School to a 64-58 upset victory over Colonia in an independent boy’s basketball game on Saturday on Thomas Fisher Court.The Stateliners, who improved to 14-6 with ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ – P’Burg trash cans, lids and orange stickers are all the chatter, but the rules on trash collection in Phillipsburg are nothing new. In 2024 and 2025, enforcement is taking center stage under the direction of Mayor Randy Piazza Jr. and the Departments of Public Works and ...
Junior Marvin Jaquish and senior Maddix Myers led the way once again when Phillipsburg High School defeated host Warren Hills, 5-2, in a Skyland Conference boy’s bowling match on Thursday.Jaquish, averaging 214 a game for the season, rolled a 619 series with games of 184-233-202 and Myers, ...
TRENTON, NJ — “We want you back!” NJ lawmakers told the nation’s nomadic Miss America, urging the competition to return in 2025 “and every year thereafter.”A resolution pleading with event organizers to come back was passed by the state Assembly by a voice vote, with no objections, on Thursday.
TRENTON, NJ — New Jersey elementary teachers may soon find furry friends in their classrooms. The state Senate on Thursday unanimously passed a bipartisan bill establishing a pilot program to place therapy dogs in elementary school wellness programs. School districts including Barnegat, Clifton and ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Christina Sullivan, Madie Petak and Gabrielle LaMarca each scored 12 points to pace well-balanced Voorhees to a 60-48 victory over Phillipsburg High School on Thursday night to spoil the Stateliners Senior Night festivities. Senior guard Saafiyah Wilson tallied a career-high 17 ...
TRENTON, NJ — Sean Lavin was a Mercer County sheriff’s officer who responded to Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans in 2005. His memories of finding those who didn’t survive left him sleepless afterward and triggered post-traumatic stress disorder, he said. “Not one of us were OK with ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ — In a move aimed at increasing transparency and fostering greater public engagement in all matters, the Phillipsburg Board of Education has approved a revised 2025 meeting schedule that introduces a "Committee of the Whole" format. At the January 27, 2025 meeting held at the ...
TRENTON, NJ — Business leaders failed to persuade lawmakers Monday to drop a bill requiring stores to warn gift-card buyers about potential fraud.Assembly bill A-4636 would compel retailers to post information about how the cards can be manipulated and made worthless. Businesses that fail to ...
Pohatcong Township Chief of Police Scott Robb announced that he will be retiring after 25 years working in public safety, effective Jan. 31, 2025.“My journey in this honorable profession is coming to an end,” Robb shared in a heartfelt post on the Pohatcong Township Police Department’s Facebook ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Maddix Myers led Phillipsburg High School with a 629 series as the Stateliners defeated Warren Tech, 7-0, in a boy’s bowling match at Oakwood Lanes on Tuesday.Myers produced games of 234-192-203 while Marvin Jaquish went off for games of 254 and 234 in his last two games after ...
TRENTON, NJ — A bill to increase the safety of inflatable bouncy houses – typically rented for backyard birthday parties and parking lot carnivals – was approved Monday by the Assembly Consumer Affairs Committee.The measure, A3433, would require bouncy houses to include anchors and stakes. It would ...
Matthew Scerbo Jr. scored 24 points and classmate Jason Abbott tallied 15 of his 17 points in a game-changing third quarter to lead Phillipsburg High School past Franklin, 62-44, in a Skyland Conference Delaware Division boy’s basketball game on Tuesday night on Thomas Fisher Court.The game was a ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - It’s been a week of career record-setting performances in boy’s basketball and girls swimming at Phillipsburg High School.Now it’s wrestling’s turn after senior middleweight Gavin Hawk broke the school record for career victories after pinning his opponent in 38 seconds in the ...
The boys swimming relay team of Nick Berger, Matt Beaney, Luke Tipton and Austin Olexa qualified for the Meet of Champions in two relays on Saturday when the Stateliners hosted the Hunterdon-Warren Sussex championships.Berger and Olexa are both juniors and Phillipsburg High School students and ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Rutgers University President Jonathan Holloway says he has no information that federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are or will be on the school’s New Brunswick, Newark or Camden campuses.Holloway, however, is instructing students and faculty members to contact ...
TRENTON, NJ — New moms who work as New Jersey state troopers or professional firefighters may gain guaranteed paid time off with their babies and other job benefits under legislation approved Monday in Trenton.Supporters in the Assembly public safety committee said such first responders now ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Senior Gavin Hawk became Phillipsburg High School’s all-time winningest wrestler and the Stateliners took out their recent frustrations to the tune of a 47-15 drubbing against a rebuilding Warren Hills squad on Monday night in the ‘Liners gym.Hawk decked Johan Venegas Mosos at ...
The Greenwich Township Police Department of Warren County, NJ, is seeking the public’s assistance regarding an ongoing investigation. Authorities say they need help identifying the male party in the attached photographs in regard to an active investigation. No further details are released at this ...
NEW JERSEY – By now, most Americans know that Donald Trump became the second man to serve non-consecutive terms. But how many can name the first man ever to win the presidency back after leaving office? Stephen Grover Cleveland served as the 22nd (1885–1889) and 24th (1893–1897) president. He was ...
The Greenwich Township Police Department of Warren County, NJ, is seeking the public’s assistance regarding an ongoing investigation. The pictured individual is involved in an active investigation which occurred at the Greenwich ShopRite. No further details are released at this time.Anyone with ...