Day: June 23, 2011

  • PRINCETON AREA: Petition opposes proposed charter school

    By Stephanie Vaccaro, Staff Writer    A group identified only as “residents of South Brunswick, Princeton and West Windsor-Plainsboro school districts” posted an online petition opposing the Princeton International Academy Charter School.    From June 13 to 19, 1,215 signatures were added to the list. However, it is unclear who are residents of the areas affected as…

  • Spark Energy to Give Away Free Movie Tickets in Princeton, NJ

    Spark Energy to Give Away Free Movie Tickets in Princeton, NJ

    Spark Energy to Give Away Free Movie Tickets in Princeton, NJ Company Also Offers 10% Off PSE&G’s Summer Electricity Rates WHAT: Spark Energy, a retail electric provider and alternative supplier to PSE&G, is offering free movie tickets to movie-goers in Princeton, NJ. The company will distribute 400 free tickets at the Princeton Garden Theaters to…

  • E.B.’s Green Devils take title

    The 2010-11 season for the East Brunswick Soccer Club’s U9 National Green Devils ended in victory. The girls started in September as a Flight Four team, and with the help of their coaches, Jim Harmon, Mike Sliwinski and Garth Smalley, the girls worked their way up to a Flight Two team only halfway through their…

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    The dragster Punisher took part in Raceway Park’s 36th Annual Night Of Thrills in Old Bridge on June 18. JEFF GRANIT staff

  • Spotswood’s Soulias has become a complete player

    BY JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent Spotswood High School basketball player Tom Soulias. Tom Soulias would have few peers on the basketball court if the game were about run and shoot. When unleashed to display his many talents, the Milltown native and star for Spotswood High School can easily register 30 or more points in short order,…

  • South River roots have stayed close to Bucknell football coach Susan

    BY JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent Bucknell University head football coach Joe Susan gives instructions to his team. You can take Joe Susan out of New Jersey, but you can never take the Jersey out of him. A former football star for South River High School in the mid-70s, the 55-year-old completed his first season as head…

  • Event to benefit scholarship fund for teens lost in auto crash

    BY CHRISTINA HABERSTROH Staff Writer The families of East Brunswick teens Jon Mustafa and Lesley Carness, killed in a car accident in 2007, award scholarships yearly in their memory. EAST BRUNSWICK — The families of Lesley Carness and Jon Mustafa are continuing their efforts to keep the memory of the late teens alive through a…

  • Anthony J. Ventriello

    Mr. Ventriello, 81, of Old Bridge, died June 4, 2011, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. He served as volunteer director of the St. Ambrose Chapter of the St. Vincent DePaul Society, Old Bridge. Surviving are his wife, Helene; three sons, Michael, John and Christopher; three daughters by marriage, Deborah, Donna and Christine; four…

  • John J. Wynn

    Mr. Wynn, 74, of Monroe, formerly of Manalapan, died June 9, 2011, in Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch. He was predeceased by a son, John P. Wynn, and by a brother, Todd Wynne. Surviving are his wife, Maureen Sharkey Wynn; two daughters and sons-in-law, Maureen and Mike Tosuni and Eileen and George Likakis; two brothers,…