Category: Suburban Calendar

  • Board denies proposals for 14 homes, Community Bank

    Staff Writer By sue m. morgan Board denies proposals for 14 homes, Community Bank OLD BRIDGE — The Planning Board rejected an application to build The Woods, a development of 14 single-family homes proposed for Route 34, after the applicant asked for a sixth continuance of time at the board’s Feb. 5 meeting. Should the…

  • Minnie Pearson Schenck is recalled as community pillar

    Staff Writer By JENNIFER DOME SOUTH RIVER — Borough residents are mourning the loss of Minnie Pearson Schenck, but say they will remember her for her love of the community and her church. Funeral services for Schenck, 78, who passed away Feb. 4 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick after a sudden…

  • St. Peter’s will offer Safe Sitter program

    St. Peter’s will offer Safe Sitter program St. Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick, will offer a Safe Sitter program from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 18 in the hospital’s Sister Marie dePazzi Conference Center, 254 Easton Ave. Girls and boys ages 11-13 are invited to participate. The course will teach adolescents how to…

  • Community Bulletin Board Son to offer presentation on life of Paul Robeson

    Community Bulletin Board Son to offer presentation on life of Paul Robeson Paul Robeson Jr., son of the late Paul Robeson Sr., will offer a lecture and media presentation on his father 7:30 p.m. Feb. 19 at the East Brunswick Public Library, Jean Walling Civic Center. The event is sponsored by the Middlesex Chapter of…

  • Community Bulletin Board Needlepoint panel sets anniversary celebration

    Community Bulletin Board Needlepoint panel sets anniversary celebration The Central Jersey Chapter of the American Needlepoint Guild will celebrate its fifth anniversary at 10 a.m. on March 16 at the Woodbridge Public Library, George Frederick Plaza. The group meets at the library at 10 a.m. on the third Saturday of every month. The next meeting…

  • Residents must file by Feb. 25

    Residents must file by Feb. 25 VERONICA YANKOWSKI Victoria Gonzales, a third-grader at Wilson School, Sayreville, looks over the books at the school’s annual book fair Monday. to run for local school boards Potential school board candidates should continue to adhere to the Feb. 25 deadline for submitting nominating petitions, even though the state might…

  • Proposed computer system to be discussed by council

    Staff Writer By jennifer dome Proposed computer system to be discussed by council SAYREVILLE — Borough Council members, at Monday’s agenda meeting, are planning to discuss purchasing a municipal computer system that would track residents’ calls, questions and complaints, Councilman Thomas Pollando said. According to Pollando, the system would have a central phone number for…

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    SARAH MCCOLGAN Shannon Shotwell, 18, of Sayreville, swings her flag during the sixth annual Indoor Color Guard Competition, which was held at Sayreville War Memorial High School on Feb. 2.

  • Parked Conrail cars moved; neighbor’s view improves

    Parked Conrail cars moved; neighbor’s view improves Boro dealing with ‘lousy corporate resident,’ according to mayor SAYREVILLE — Lillian Chiamara will finally have a different view from the back yard of her Zaleski Drive home. After three months of looking at 26 graffiti-stained train cars that were parked on the rail line behind her home,…