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Nearly 10,000 Optimum customers in Morris County experienced service outages. Here's why
Nearly 10,000 Optimum customers in Morris County experienced service outages on Thursday evening after a truck took down wires. The outage, which affected customers from Morris Plains north to Boonton, began around 5:30 p.m., according to one customer. An Optimum spokesperson stated in an email around 6 a.m. Friday that "services have been...
Council Approves Parade and Block Party for Terminally Ill Phillipsburg Boy
PHILLIPSBURG, N.J.- Council approved a welcome home parade and follow-up block party for a seven-year-old terminally ill Phillipsburg boy at their Wednesday evening meeting. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTER Upon his return from the Children's Hospital in Philadelphia, Jaxson Rand of Chambers Street will be celebrated on May 19 at a parade in his honor, which will assemble at 12:30 p.m. on Filmore Street, proceed down Hudson Street, and finally arrive on Chambers Street. The child is stricken with DIPG disease (Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma) which is an aggressive and rare childhood cancer that...
Long Blue Line of Police Cyclists Stretches Down Somerville's Main Street on First Leg of 350-Mile Trip to Washington
SOMERVILLE, NJ - Hundreds of New Jersey police officers pedaled their bicycles through downtown Somerville on Thursday, the first of a four-day, 350 mile trek to the nation's capital. The Police Unity Tour memorializes police officers who have died.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTER Lights flashing, members of several Somerset County police departments were parked in front of the Somerset County Courthouse on East Main Street to salute their fellow officers as they rode past. The Somerville Fire Department Lincoln Hose Company rigged an oversize American Flag onto a ladder truck that was draped over East Main Street and the long blue...
Open Cupboard Food Pantry reopens at Clinton Health Campus
After the devastating fire in late February, the Open Cupboard Food Pantry has partnered with Hunterdon Health and reopened May 1 on the first floor of the Clinton Health Campus, which houses the Hunterdon Health and Wellness Center and medical offices. This space will serve as their home for the next several months.
Long Detours Coming for Howard Boulevard Drivers Hoping to Go West on Route 80
ROXBURY, NJ - The ramp from Howard Boulevard to Route 80 west is scheduled to be closed and detoured for 10 days, starting today, a closure that will force motorists to take long detours to either Wharton or Ledgewood, said the state Department of Transportation (DOT). The closure is required so workers can progress on replacing the interstate highway's bridges over the boulevard, said the DOT. It means northbound Howard Boulevard drivers hoping to go west on Route 80 will instead have to go east on Route 80, get off at Exit 34, get on North Main Street in Wharton, take that to Route 15...
'My House Is On Fire': Firefighters Alerted To House Fire: Lambertville FD
Firefighters tended to a house fire in Hunterdon County on Thursday, May 9 after a quick thinking neighbor alerted them, authorities said.At 3:30 p.m., a neighbor to the house on fire at 217 Main St. ran to the front of the Lambertville firehouse yelled that a house was on fire, the Lambertville Fi…
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