New lawyers advising council, Planning Board Sparta has a new township attorney and a new Planning Board attorney; both replaced men who served a long time in those posts.... Local News 10 Jun 2025 | 01:03
Diamond Chip sues Sparta for $100M A $100 million federal lawsuit against Sparta will be decided in a courtroom, Mayor Neill Clark told residents at the Township... Local News 26 Apr 2025 | 08:16
Marjory Murphy is sworn into office as a Township Council member. Her nephew Mark Lotz holds the Bible and Township Clerk Roxanne Landy administers the oath. Scott, Murphy join council Mark Scott and Marjory Murphy were sworn in to seats on the Township Council at the annual reorganization meeting Tuesday,... Local News 22 Jan 2025 | 09:18
Warehouse resolution approved The Sussex County Board of County Commissioners voted 3-2 in favor of a resolution to amend the county wastewater plan to... Home 03 Sep 2024 | 12:11
Residents fill the council chambers for the Planning Board meeting May 1. The board voted to restart the application process for Diamond Chip Realty’s plan to build two warehouses at 33 Demarest Road. (Photo by Dave Smith) Starting anew on warehouse application A newly constituted Planning Board devoted solely to Diamond Chip Realty’s (DCR) application to build two warehouses at 33... Local News 07 May 2024 | 06:08
Sparta lawyer to go ‘over the edge’ Anand Dash, a Sparta lawyer and president of Sparta Responsible Development, will join the New Jersey Highlands Coalition’s... Local News 16 Apr 2024 | 10:12
Register in advance by April 16 to see local talent on stage - including music, atmosphere, and appetizers. Music fundraiser today to support Sparta Responsible Development The Sparta Responsible Development (SRD) community group will host a fundraiser from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, April 30 at The... Local News 30 Apr 2023 | 08:13
Vivian Perlmutter holds her sign during the township council meeting to demonstrate her opposition to the proposed mega-warehouse development on Demarest Road. ( Photo by Birgit Bogler) Residents question Sparta engineer’s intentions Residents voiced their continued opposition to the proposed mega-warehouse during public session on Sept. 27 Sparta Township... Local News 05 Oct 2022 | 10:17
The initial plans for the warehouse at 33 Demarest Road. Residents work to stop Diamond Chip project through court action Anand Dash and Neill Clark recently filed a civil action against the Sparta Township Zoning Board of Adjustment, the Sparta... Local News 23 Aug 2022 | 12:46
The proposed lot where the warehouse may stand. Sparta’s mega-warehouse: town accused of changing ordinance for developers’ needs The June 1 Sparta Township Planning Board meeting further demonstrated the opposition to developer Diamond Chip Realty LLC’s... Business 09 Jun 2022 | 09:29
Members of the public who were squeezed out of the main meeting hall watched the hearing on television sets in the vestibule (Photo by Frances Ruth Harris) Overflow crowd determined to make its views known on massive Sparta warehouse The overflow crowd was limited in the questions it could ask when Sparta Township held its second public hearing on the 880,000-square-foot... Local News 11 Apr 2022 | 04:13
The warehouse complex site plan presented to the Sparta Planning Board ‘No decisions have been made’ about massive warehouse, Sparta council tells public Resident William Enright told the Sparta Township Council on March 8 that a petition objecting to a massive new warehouse... Local News 22 Mar 2022 | 06:07
Four-hour public hearing on massive warehouse leaves most questions unanswered Many questions about a massive warehouse project were left unanswered at a March 2 public hearing, even after four hours... Local News 14 Mar 2022 | 03:44
