Category: Suburban News
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$2 million in federal aid secured for Green Tree
Staff Writer By JENNIFER DOME SAYREVILLE — U.S. senators Robert Torricelli and Jon Corzine announced Monday that a $2 million federal grant has been secured to aid Green Tree Chemical Technologies, Parlin, due to recent losses the company has incurred. The funds were included as part of a 2002 Department of Defense appropriations bill that…
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Agency files suit to gain Nat’l Lead site
Staff Writer By JENNIFER DOME Agency files suit to gain Nat’l Lead site SAYREVILLE — The Sayreville Economic Redevelopment Agency (SERA) filed suit last month against National Lead Industries Inc., the owner of a contaminated site on Chevalier Avenue. The suit was filed in Superior Court Nov. 9 in an attempt to gain control of…
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Four gas station burglaries
PHOTOS BY FARRAH MAFFAI Students at the Carl Sandburg Middle School in Old Bridge work on a map of the world, which about 100 student volunteers created in the parking lot. Anthony Sirianni (below) puts another coat of paint onto the Mediterranean Sea, which is part of the map of the world that students made…
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Developer charged with eight zoning violations
Staff Writer By JENNIFER DOME SAYREVILLE –– The borough’s zoning office recently served developers Kaplan Companies and ESK Builders with eight violation summonses in response to grading and clearing work that officials said was done without approval on land adjacent to Kaplan’s Towne Lake housing development. Workers for Kaplan were clearing debris and grading land…
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Teen-ager killed in car accident Three other passengers in vehicle treated for injuries and released
Staff Writer By sue m. morgan Teen-ager killed in car accident Three other passengers in vehicle treated for injuries and released OLD BRIDGE — An 18-year-old student at Old Bridge Adult High School was killed and three other teenagers were injured in a one-car accident Monday night. According to police, Francis Shehata, of the Parlin…
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Veteran remembers knowing ‘war was coming’ 60th anniversary of attack on Pearl Harbor will be commemorated
Staff Writer By jennifer dome Veteran remembers knowing ‘war was coming’ 60th anniversary of attack on Pearl Harbor will be commemorated FARRAH MAFFAI Harry Wasnak, 78, was stationed in Oahu, Hawaii, with the U.S. Army when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. SAYREVILLE –– It will be exactly 60 years ago tomorrow,…
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Councilman-elect wins approval for business
Councilman-elect wins approval for business Bordentown Ave. business source of contention in campaign By jennifer dome Staff Writer SAYREVILLE –– Tom Marcinczyk, who, during his successful bid for election to the Borough Council last month, was accused of running a business in violation of borough zoning laws, received official approval last week to run the…
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Dems, GOP split vote on YMCA study Old Bridge mayor says council is missing an opportunity due to vote
Staff Writer By sue m. morgan Dems, GOP split vote on YMCA study Old Bridge mayor says council is missing an opportunity due to vote Despite the advice of the Old Bridge mayor and a Republican councilman, Democratic Township Council members tabled a nonbinding resolution Monday that would have allowed the Red Bank-based Community YMCA…
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$28M referendum
JERRY WOLKOWITZ U.S. Sen. Jon Corzine speaks with students at the Sayreville Middle School Monday, when he visited to view the overcrowded situation at the school. At right, Dayo Adiatu, 13, an eighth-grader at the Sayreville Middle School, listens to the senator. goes to voters Tues. State, U.S. officials meet with Sayreville students to discuss…
