Author: Greater Media

  • What it costs to insure a teen driver

    Got a kid at home who’s about to obtain his or her driver’s license? Expect to see the family’s car insurance premiums skyrocket. Adding a teen driver to a married couple’s auto insurance policy boosts rates by an average 79 percent according to a report conducted by InsuranceQuotes.com in San Francisco, Calif. Insuring a 16-yearold…

  • Diesel truck options

    Q&A with Sharon Peters Q: I don’t understand why it is that only the big pickups are diesel powered. We need a smaller truck and prefer diesel. Any plans afoot you know of? A: The Dodge Ram 1500 EcoDiesel is diesel powered. As of mid-summer it was the only half-ton pickup with a diesel engine.…

  • Weichert Workforce Mobility earns most ‘Best In Class’ ratings from corporate relocation managers

    Weichert Workforce Mobility, one of the world’s leading providers of talent deployment solutions, earned more “best in class” ratings from corporate relocation managers than any other relocation service supplier in the Thirteenth Annual Relocation Managers Survey. Conducted by Trippel Survey & Research, this survey is the only industrywide evaluation of its kind to rank the…

  • Gasko’s open house to benefit injured teen

    By ADAM C. UZIALKO Staff Writer Roseann Goodman prepares holiday wreaths at Gasko’s Family Farm and Greenhouses in Monroe. The farm will host its Christmas Open House on Nov. 29 to raise money for high school hockey player Mikey Nichols, who suffered a spinal cord injury last winter. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR The annual winter…

  • Picking up yardage

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Dontae Strickland and the South Brunswick High School football team were looking to remain undefeated when the Vikings hosted Trenton Central High School on Nov. 21 in the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group V playoff semifinals. A win would send South Brunswick to the finals on Dec. 5.

  • Ratable growth keeps 2015 tax hike in check

    By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer With tax ratables up for the first time since 2008, the municipal budget for the coming fiscal year will include a nominal tax increase, North Brunswick officials said. The Township Council unanimously adopted a $44.75 million budget for fiscal year 2015 at its meeting on Nov. 17. The budget benefits…

  • Chef brings passion for craft to kitchen

    By CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer “Competitions force me to get out of my comfort zone and look at foods and flavor combinations differently.” — Chef Peter Morris I t may be his passion for cooking great food that started Peter Morris on his path to a career as a restaurant chef, but it was…

  • Donation box reportedly stolen during prayer service at mosque

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Police are investigating a theft from the donation box at the Islamic Society of Central Jersey on Route 1 last week. Police responded to the mosque in the evening of Nov. 18 after staff realized that someone had broken into the donation box and stole the cash that was inside of it,…

  • Affordable housing picture is cloudy after COAH vote

    YOUR TURN ASSEMBLYMAN SEAN KEAN GUEST COLUMN The failure of New Jersey’s Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) to reach an agreement on new third-round regulations for the state Supreme Court-mandated construction of housing for lowincome residents has created confusion for municipalities now facing dramatic increases in litigation which would force towns to accept affordable housing…