Hi, I'm Steve.

I live in Clinton, and every Monday and Thursday morning I send out a free email called The Hunterdon Scoop. It's basically me telling you what's going on around the county that week. What's worth doing with the kids, what's opening, what's getting built down the road from you.

It started very small. My first subscriber was my neighbor Jenny, and she only signed up because I texted her and asked. It's grown a lot since then, but it still works the same way: I do the homework, you get the email.

This directory exists because I kept needing it. Every time I had to find a plumber or track down the right township office, I'd end up on some national site that had never heard of half these towns. So I made the thing I wished existed. Every business I could find in the county, sorted by town, with a phone number that works and a note showing when someone last checked it. (If you want the nuts and bolts of how it's put together, that's over here.)

It's free and there's no catch. If it saves you some time and you want to say thanks, the newsletter is the best way. Two emails a week, Monday and Thursday at 7, written by an actual person who lives here.

And if something on here is wrong, a dead number, a place that closed, your own listing, just email me at corrections@hunterdonscoop.com. I read everything.

- Steve