Category: archives

  • LAWRENCE: Building dreams for needy kids

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Shehara Yoosuf is fortunate to have grown up in a comfortable home with parents who would read to her when she was young, who have been supportive of her dreams and who have encouraged her to apply to college.    But Shehara, who is a senior at Lawrence High School, knows…

  • Coldwell Banker in South Brunswick Sponsors Food Drive

    Coldwell Banker in South Brunswick Sponsors Food Drive

    South Brunswick, N.J. – (November 16, 2011) – Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in South Brunswick is collecting non-perishable food items that will be distributed by the South Brunswick Food Pantry to local residents in need this Thanksgiving. Canned and packaged food can be dropped off at Coldwell Banker in South Brunswick’s office on 3228 Route…

  • ALLENTOWN: They’re going to Disney!

    ALLENTOWN: They’re going to Disney!

    Redbird Pop Warner cheerleaders advance to national championship    ALLENTOWN — True to their performance music mix, “Ain’t no stopping us now,” Allentown Redbirds Pop Warner cheer team can’t be stopped.    The Pee Wee cheer team placed first at the Pop Warner Eastern Region Finals Competition on Sunday, Nov. 13 at Sun National Bank Arena in…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Assemblyman Biondi, 69, dies
  • UPPER FREEHOLD: Marijuana farm proposed on Rues Road

    By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    UPPER FREEHOLD — Breakwater Alternative Treatment Center has filed an application with the Upper Freehold Zoning Board of Adjustment to grow medicinal marijuana in two greenhouses it proposes to build on a Rues Road farm.    Breakwater is one of six nonprofit entities selected by the state to operate alternative treatment…

  • LAWRENCE: Teacher’s aide charged with sex crimes

       A Lawrence Intermediate School teacher’s aide has been charged with two counts each of sexual assault and aggravated sexual assault and one count of endangering the welfare of a child in connection with an incident that occurred at the aide’s home in Ewing Township.    Joseph Miller, 52, who lives on Sullivan Way in Ewing Township,…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: ‘Occupiers’ march through region

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: ‘Occupiers’ march through region

    By Charles W. Kim, Managing Editor They have many miles to walk to the nation’s capital, and the detemination to get there.¶ A group of 30 Occupy Wall Street protestors set out last week on a two-week march covering the more than 230 miles from Zucotti Park in lower Manhattan to Washington, D.C., bringing them…

  • LAWRENCE:Burglaries under investigation

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Police are investigating two burglaries and an attempted burglary on Hawk Road that occurred within a few hours of each other Nov. 10 and that they believe may be related, according to police Lt. Charles B. Edgar.    In each of the incidents, the burglars entered the houses by forcing in…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Honoring those who served

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Honoring those who served

    Staff photo by Charles W. Kim More than 100 people gathered Nov. 11 to honor veterans at the municipal veterans memo´rial at the Municipal Building on Route 522.