Category: Suburban News

  • O.B. man to join 150th anniversary celebration of military bugle call

    Bugles Across America to be part of mass performance of taps at Arlington Nat’l Cemetery BYADAM JOSEPH DRICI Staff Writer Bruce Walker of Old Bridge, a member of Bugles Across America, performs taps during the funeral for U.S. Air Force Maj. Bruce Edward Lawrence of Phillipsburg in September. KEVIN MINGORA/THE MORNING CALL OLD BRIDGE —…

  • O.B. may bring veterans housing to Laurence Harbor

    Former senior center would be converted or demolished BYADAM JOSEPH DRICI Staff Writer Old Bridge officials are hoping to turn the site of the former Laurence Harbor Senior Center into affordable housing for veterans with disabilities. The Township Council voted last week to authorize a preliminary assessment and investigation of the property at 200 Laurence…

  • O.B. man gets car burglary charges for fourth time

    BYADAM JOSEPH DRICI Staff Writer OLD BRIDGE — A township man has now been charged four times in two years with the same offense: breaking into cars. James Oettinger’s latest arrest came on May 2 when, according to police, an officer was dispatched to the parking lot of the TGI Friday’s restaurant on Route 9…

  • Program hopes kids will get hooked … on fishing

    After recent launch in Old Bridge, SWMHS grad hopes former hometown will come on board BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer A fourth-grader who is among the 40 Old Bridge students to win the Hooked on Fishing, Not on Drugs slogan contest, gets some fishing tips from a township volunteer fisherman (r) as a parent looks on…

  • O’Brien accuses council of circumventing him

    Governing body reviewing candidates to serve as next business administrator BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer A fter missing two Sayreville Borough Council meetings, Mayor Kennedy O’Brien returned Monday night and claimed certain council members have been trying to leave him out of government proceedings. The Republican mayor accused Democratic council members Lisa Eicher, Dan Buchanan, Bill…

  • Sayreville students take top prize for orangutan effort

    SAYREVILLE — A group of fifth-graders at Samsel Upper Elementary School have won the grand prize in a Philadelphia Zoosponsored contest that had them spreading awareness about the plight of the orangutan. Janet Ust’s Team 5-3 class participated in the zoo’s “Unless” contest, for which they were challenged to create an awareness campaign about the…

  • N.Y. woman tells story of surviving Holocaust

    Message to O.B. students: Do the right thing BYADAM JOSEPH DRICI Staff Writer Nearly 70 fifth-graders at Memorial Elementary School crowded into a classroom Monday to listen with rapt attention as local Holocaust survivor Sally Frishberg told them her story. The May 14 event was part of the Laurence Harbor school’s observance of National Holocaust…

  • Sayreville’s Odyssey teams headed to World Finals

    Teammates work together throughout school year on creative problem-solving BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer Seventh- and eighth-grade students at Sayreville Middle School work on their Odyssey of the Mind project in preparation for the 2012 World Finals. SAYREVILLE — The borough’s school district will be represented at both the middle and high school levels of this…

  • Area musicians team up for Tuesday night jams

    BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent Bill Hunt (l) of Old Bridge and Deborah Grosso-Proulx of North Brunswick take part in an acoustic jam session at the To Be Continued… bookstore in Metuchen May 8. Local musician Ron Victoria started the Tuesday night jams several months ago. Local musicians have found an audience, and each other, thanks…