Hopatcong's N.Y. Giant Takes Field, Man Allegedly Speeds From Cops Top Local News

The defending Super Bowl champion New York Giants and their former Hopatcong High School star running back Joe Martinek are getting ready for the season. Hopatcong AD Tom Vara took some great photos of Martinek, including one of him with Eli Manning, while paying a visit.

Hopatcong police say a man sped from a traffic stop, reaching 80 mph before crashing into a bridge on Landing Road in Roxbury before resisting arrest.

Mayor Sylvia Petillo described Dick Terwillegar, the former captain of Hopatcong's Defiance Engine Co. No. 3, as one of the most dedicated members of the community.

Three Hopatcong residents earned honors at the Morris County 4-H Fair late last month in Chester. 

Mayor Sylvia Petillo presented Hopatcong High School golfer Shane Sickles the Mayor’s Award Wednesday in acknowledgement of his high school sports career.

A Tulsa Trail man was arrested on Monday after he allegedly became disorderly and resisted arrest after police were called to a house on the street.

Hopatcong resident Kyle Downey is one of dozens of Rutgers undergraduates who has interned at the Rutgers Oral History Archives and played a key role recording individual accounts of history. The students help preserve the stories of people who participated in wars and other major events that happened before they were born.

Authorities are looking for a silver SUV with North Carolina license plates in connection with a hit-and-run accident that injured a Passaic County man and 12-year-old girl who were riding a motorcycle on Interstate 80 in Roxbury.