Sex Offender Arrested, 'Smiles for Margaret' Top Hackettstown News

Sex Offender Charged With Distributing Child Porn

A registered sex offender from Hackettstown was scheduled to appear in federal court Wednesday on a charge of distributing child pornography.

Kevin Rease, 32, was arrested Tuesday at the Paterson law office where he works after an undercover FBI agent said he downloaded child porn images Rease shared on a Web peer-to-peer network.

Fundraisers Planned to Bring 'Smiles for Margaret'

Multiple fundraisers are planned in coming weeks to aid a local girl battling a brain tumor.

The Smiles for Margaret organization is sponsoring a series of events to raise money for the family of Margaret Walling, a Hackettstown Middle School sixth-grader.

A Lake Hopatcong man stole hundreds of dollars of equipment from a Hackettstown church and pawned it off over the weekend before being arrested, police said.

Local 'Elite' Gymnasts Named National Champs

The first weekend of April won’t be one to forget any time soon for the Northern Elite gymnasts.

Two teams, made up of gymnasts from Long Valley, Hackettstown, Mt. Olive, Sparta and Roxbury, made a name for themselves at a state and national competition, bringing home some heavy hardware.

Hackettstown Not Ranked Among 'Top' High Schools

Hackettstown High School is not ranked among the top schools in New Jersey, according to U.S. News and World Report.