Author: Greater Media

  • How does your garden grow?

    Director Bruce Crawford and the staff of Rutgers Gardens, New Brunswick, have compiled a list of gardening tips for the early spring:  Reread your journal from the past year, and note some of the major problems that can be resolved this year.  Take stock of your tools. Sharpen, clean, oil, and repair saws…

  • REAL ESTATE BRIEFS

    Mario Venancio, a sales associate for more than two decades with Gloria Nilson & Co. Real Estate, was awarded the 2014 NJAR Circle of Excellence Sales Award Platinum, having distinguished himself among his peers with more than $100 million in completed transactions on 112 units last year. Throughout his careers, he has achieved the NJAR…

  • Developer gets OK to raze, rebuild Edison warehouse

    By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer After much discussion over the course of two hearings, the Edison Planning Board unanimously granted conditional approval to a nearly 1 millionsquare foot warehouse at Vineyard Road and Route 27. The Seagis Property Group bought the former Frigidaire property for $61.5 million in 2006. The building, which dates back to…

  • Time for a change?

    Automakers love to boast about their vehicles’ longevity, building ads around bruised and beaten up models still running after several hundred thousand miles, their proud owners beaming in the background. Unfortunately, a recent analysis cautions that long-time car owners are actually among the least brandloyal new-car shoppers. According to Experian Automotive in Schaumburg, Ill., the…

  • Parents state displeasure over emphasis on testing

    By ANDREW MARTINS Staff Writer More than 200 parents and educators from around the state filled the Jackson Liberty High School auditorium to vent their concerns about the type and volume of tests to which students in New Jersey are being subjected on an annual basis. The Jan. 29 public hearing was held by the…

  • Face time

    PHOTO COURTESY OF THE FORUM THEATRE The cast of “Freckleface Strawberry” is set for its second weekend of performances at Metuchen’s Forum Theatre. Pictured, left to right, are Elana Iskowitz of East Brunswick, Evan Krug of Edison, Shannen Doyle of Kendall Park, DeVaughn Johnson of Edison and Shannon Garahan of East Brunswick.

  • Board allows students to forgo PARCC test

    By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Students whose parents refuse the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessment test on behalf of their children will not be penalized. The Edison Board of Education voted 5-2 on Jan. 28 in favor of a resolution stating there would be no disciplinary consequences for such…

  • Former basketball coach indicted in series of sexual assaults

    EDISON — A former basketball coach at Middlesex County College (MCC) has been indicted on charges of sexually assaulting two boys and engaging in sexually explicit conversations with two others in separate incidents dating back to 1994, according to authorities. Christopher Tarver, 43, a Jackson resident who also served as Dunellen’s recreation director, was indicted…

  • How does your garden grow?

    Director Bruce Crawford and the staff of Rutgers Gardens, New Brunswick, have compiled a list of gardening tips for the early spring:  Reread your journal from the past year, and note some of the major problems that can be resolved this year.  Take stock of your tools. Sharpen, clean, oil, and repair saws…