Tuesday evening, Mayor Howard Burrell made his appeal to the Vernon Township Council for a deal with the potential to be a promising revenue generator for Vernon. The council voted it down 3 - 2.

Mayor Howard Burrell, who will present it to the Township Council for approval Tuesday, said the township has already received hundreds of thousands of dollars in past due property taxes and is betting the house's money the agreement can resurrect the late Hugh Hefner's once-palatial resort from mothballs into something that can again be a revenue generator for the township.

Here are notes from the Vernon Township Democratic Committee meeting of February 27, 2017.

In what is probably not mere coincidence, census data reveal that Sussex County has some of the worst work commutes in New Jersey, along with the highest rate of people fleeing their towns.

For the past 13 years, the county Board of Freeholders has been an exclusively Republican club, and the results are in ...

Michael Francis, a borough resident for 44 years, was sworn in as mayor of Hopatcong on Thursday.

A coalition of Independents, Republicans and Democrats have scheduled a “Meet and Greet” for CD5 Congressional candidate Josh Gottheimer on October 30th at 2 pm. The venue is the George Inn in MacAfee, NJ.

Folks are moving out of Sussex County faster than anywhere else in New Jersey. Two towns, Vernon and Hopatcong, are in the list of the top ten municipalities people are abandoning.

Visit the Vernon Township Democratic Committee on Facebook:  www.facebook.com/vernonnjdemocraticcommittee/ 

The Vernon Township Council generally meets the second and fourth Monday of each month. All meetings will be held at the Vernon Municipal Office, located at 21 Church Street, Vernon, New Jersey. Regular meetings will begin at 7:00 p.m.

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