Category: Suburban News

  • DuPont seeks warehouse on Cheesequake Road

    Staff Writer By jennifer dome SAYREVILLE — Planning Board members said they would look favorably on an application to build a warehouse on the DuPont property on Cheesequake Road during an informal hearing Feb. 20. The proposed 125,000-square-foot warehouse, which will require official board approval at a future meeting, would be located on an existing…

  • Pair arrested after chase

    RYAN D. FENSTERMAKER A sport-utility vehicle, whose driver led police on a lengthy chase around the township after being suspected of shoplifting at the Brunswick Square Mall, crashed into a police car on Route 18 in front of Circuit City. heads wrong way on Rt. 18 Suspected shoplifters pulled over after leaving Brunswick Square Mall…

  • Council argues over terms of event contract Harley-Davidson Open Road Tour headed for Raceway Park

    Staff Writer By sue m. morgan Council argues over terms of event contract Harley-Davidson Open Road Tour headed for Raceway Park OLD BRIDGE — The Township Council moved another step closer to making Harley-Davidson’s 100th anniversary Open Road Tour, scheduled for three days at Raceway Park in August, a reality by voting Monday to accept…

  • O.B. to purchase Cedar Ridge II

    After demonstration by residents, council OKs spending $6.2M By sue m. morgan Staff Writer Despite some concerns about what the final cost will actually be, Old Bridge has agreed to spend up to $6.2 million to purchase the 200-acre Cedar Ridge II property in order to preserve it as open space. At its agenda meeting…

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    FARRAH MAFFAI Dedeepya Konuthula (l) and Jane Han, students at the Grissom School in Old Bridge, get some advice from a teacher as they ice a cake shaped to represent Somerset County. Students made cakes for each county during the “Celebrate New Jersey” social studies program.

  • Classroom trailers approved Short-term remedies also include expansion of school cafeteria

    Staff Writer By jennifer dome Classroom trailers approved Short-term remedies also include expansion of school cafeteria Amid applause from the public, the Sayreville Board of Education Tuesday approved the addition of three double-sized trailers for the middle school to help alleviate overcrowding in classrooms. The trailers, complete with lavatories, will fulfill the board’s plan to…

  • School budgets may see delay due to aid situation

    Staff Writer By vincent todaro School districts, many of which absorbed tax increases for the current school year, will have to wait longer than usual this year to determine how much state aid they will receive and whether they will need to propose a tax hike. Gov. James E. McGreevey has announced that state aid…

  • Body found near Route 9

    Staff Writer By sue m. morgan OLD BRIDGE — Police are treating the death of a township man, whose body was discovered in the woods off Route 9 near the Nieuw Amsterdam apartments on Tuesday, as an apparent suicide. Police have identified the body as Robert Witkowski, 40, of Van Delft Drive in the Nieuw…

  • Two towns agree it is time to talk about border issues Aberdeen mayor responds to Old Bridge’s thoughts about land use

    Two towns agree it is time to talk about border issues Aberdeen mayor responds to Old Bridge’s thoughts about land use Recent actions by the Old Bridge Township Council as part of its opposition to a development proposal that would see 387 housing units built in Aberdeen just over the Old Bridge border have Aberdeen…