Category: Suburban News

  • Eicher discusses desire for ‘a different direction’

    Council president, mayor disagreed on whether admin. position is needed BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer While “moving the borough in a different direction” was the stated reason for the firing of Sayreville’s business administrator, the explanation was not enough to appease those opposed to the action. Council members Lisa Eicher, Bill Henry, Dan Buchanan and Mary…

  • Area Marine loses his life weeks before scheduled return home

    Helicopter crash kills Cpl. Kevin James Reinhard, former student at St. Joseph High School BY JENNIFER AMATO & KATHY CHANG Staff Writers Cpl. Kevin James Reinhard, of Colonia, was killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan on Jan. 19. A local Marine was killed in Afghanistan just weeks before he was set to return home.…

  • Hegyes touched lives of many in the hometown he loved

    Actor, 60, recalled as a loving friend and a ‘gentle soul’; best known for ‘Kotter’ role BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Robert Hegyes and John Travolta, who acted together “Welcome Back, Kotter,” reunited for the show’s 35th anniversary at the TV Land Awards. Even as he became a star of the TV screen,…

  • Twp. clerk honored for 40 years of service in O.B.

    Saracino started her career with the township in 1971 as a stenographer BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI Staff Writer Old Bridge Mayor Owen Henry presents a proclamation to Township Clerk Rose-Marie Saracino last week as Councilman Reginald Butler (r) looks on. OLD BRIDGE — She thought she would be with the township for a year or so.…

  • Police: Couple pulled Spotswood man from burning vehicle

    BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer Firefighters extinguish a car fire on Bordentown Avenue on Jan. 26. SAYREVILLE — A borough couple traveling along Bordentown Avenue stopped to extricate a Spotswood man from a burning vehicle on Jan. 26. Sayreville police said Anthony Mele, 49, and his wife Liz, 47, spotted the 1990 red Nissan, which was…

  • Snow plowing gets help from GPS in Old Bridge

    New system aims to increase accountability, efficiency in snow removal BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI Staff Writer OLD BRIDGE — The snow came down. The plows went out. But with the mid-January snowstorm, the township had a little technological help in clearing off Old Bridge streets. The township launched a new system during the storm, using GPS-enabled…

  • O.B. council to contract out for legal services

    Amendment would allow township to hire outside law firm to provide legal services BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI Staff Writer OLD BRIDGE — The township can now go out of house for its legal services, thanks to an amendment unanimously approved by the Township Council on Jan. 23. The council voted 8-0 to allow Mayor Owen Henry…

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    John Flemm waits outside a protected area where a robotic MIG is used to weld a display at Metaline Displays with a Twist in South Amboy on Jan. 26. The fourth-generation family business specializes in the design of in-store displays. See story, inside. JEFF GRANIT staff

  • O.B. council to repeal retirement ordinance

    Move would return retirement requirement to 25 years of service to town BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI Staff Writer So, it wasn’t exactly the first action they took after taking control of Old Bridge government. But three meetings into 2012, the now- Republican-controlled Township Council placed last year’s hotly contested early retirement ordinance back on the agenda…