Hunterdon County Reporting Three Additional COVID-19 Cases

FLEMINGTON, NJ - The Flemington-Raritan Regional Board of Education approved the elimination of six library clerk positions July 27, despite hearing from advocates, including many district employees, who voiced their support for retaining the positions.

Flemington-Raritan school buildings are expected to reopen this fall. However, due to the coronavirus pandemic, libraries will have minimal ...

FLEMINGTON, NJ - The Flemington governing body is tightening its belt in response to Covid-19’s financial impact.  

With court-based revenues from traffic tickets and other fine-able offenses well-below anticipated levels, the council voted to reduce the salary increase scheduled for non-union employees from 2.5 percent to 2 percent.

The only exceptions are the public defender, the ...

FLEMINGTON, NJ - Three of northwestern New Jersey’s chief county-level law enforcement officers spoke at length about scenario-specific trainings, police guidance and other issues documented in the national debate on law enforcement practices following the May death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the ensuing Black Lives Matter protests around the world.

The first “Use-of-Force” virtual ...

CAMDEN, NJ — With New Jersey’s rate of transmission (Rt) nearly doubling in a month - from 0.87 in early July to 1.48 today — Gov. Phil Murphy announced Monday that he will again tighten caps on indoor gatherings.

“We believe that some of this increase is attributable to the number of indoor house parties and other events which we have been seeing across the state… As we warned on Friday we ...

HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ - Hunterdon County became one of, if not the first, New Jersey county to receive reimbursement for costs of the July 7, 2020, “Vote-by-Mail” New Jersey Primary election, with funding coming through the CARES Act grant, according to county CFO Janite Previte.

“That grant was intended to cover the extraordinary expenses associated with Executive Order No. 144 (mandating the ...

TRENTON, NJ – Despite reporting that there were no in-hospital COVID-19 deaths during the 24-hour period ending 10:30 p.m. last night for the first time since March 10, Gov. Phil Murphy expressed disappointment over the increase in the positivity rate in the state during his COVID-19 press briefing in Trenton on Friday, July 31.

"The spot positivity rate for tests from July 27th is 2.15%, not ...

NEW JERSEY — The New Jersey Department of Agriculture offered advice Wednesday after it got reports of individuals receiving unsolicited seeds through the mail from China.

“Unsolicited seeds could be invasive, introduce diseases to local plants or be harmful to livestock,” the NJDA said in a press release. “Sometimes the seeds are sent in packages stating that the contents are ...

RARITAN TWP, N.J. – The Raritan Township Committee received a report of a “clean” audit of its financial records at its meeting July 21.

The audit covered the periods ending on Dec. 31, 2018 and Dec. 31, 2019. It was performed by the accounting firm of Suplee, Clooney & Company, of Westfield.

In fact, the audit was so clean, Eric Zimmerman – a manager at the firm – noted they did not ...

RARITAN TWP., N.J. – When Hunterdon Central Regional High School and schools in the Flemington-Raritan School District re-open, there is going to be at least one familiar presence for students.

The Class III Special Law Enforcement Officers who served in those districts will be returning.

The Raritan Township Committee unanimously re-appointed the officers for the 2020-2021 school year at ...

TRENTON, NJ – Gov. Murphy again condemned crowded house parties, which he says are causing the number of new COVID-19 cases to rise in the state during his COVID-19 press briefing on Wednesday, July 29, 2020, in Trenton.

He said that over the past four months, New Jersey residents have “crushed the curve,” but was disappointed that over the past four days, there have been roughly 2,000 new ...