Category: Suburban News

  • Visit With Santa

    More than 300 toys were collected for Toys for Tots during the annual “Visit With Santa” at the Old Bridge home of Joseph and Cathy Mahoney on Dec. 9-10. One reason the event was so successful was the idea of Samantha Zino, who was turning 6, to donate all her birthday gifts. Surrounding Samantha in…

  • ‘Kids at College’

    Above: Jason Schifter (l) and Anthony Falu from Old Bridge’s Schirra Elementary School engage in a lesson at the Floriculture greenhouses on the Cook College campus of Rutgers University. The day of learning activities on Dec. 2 was part of the Old Bridge Public Schools’ Kids at College program. Old Bridge has formed extensive collaborations…

  • Hare Krishna temple hearing pushed to 2012

    OLD BRIDGE — The township Planning Board will wait until next year to take up a controversial plan to build a Hare Krishna religious center along Route 34. During its meeting on Dec. 6 in front of a packed township courtroom, the board voted to push back an application by the International Society for Krishna…

  • Net profit: Basketball association donates toys for the holidays

    Central East Jersey Basketball Officials also raises awareness of cancer during the year BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer SAYREVILLE — The Central East Jersey Basketball Officials (CEJBO) is one of many organizations using this season’s holiday spirit to give back to its community. CEJBO collected new, unwrapped toys for Toys for Tots at a mandatory meeting…

  • Old Bridge man found dead after allegedly abducting kids

    By Chris Zawistowski An Old Bridge man who was wanted in connection with the alleged murder of his wife committed suicide on Dec. 16 in an upstate New York motel, where his two children were found safe, authorities said. Anthony Trapp, 39, of Old Bridge, was found dead in the motel room after his two…

  • O.B. pupil wins grand prize in N.J. in anti-cyberbullying contest

    OLD BRIDGE — Drake DeMarco, a student at Virgil I. Grissom Elementary School, was recognized Oct. 25 as the New Jersey grand-prize winner in Cablevision’s Power to Learn “Delete Cyberbullying” contest. The contest encouraged students to create a poster that would prompt their friends and classmates to “click with kindness.” After welcoming remarks from Principal…

  • Photo

    Efram, a golden retriever, gets up and close with Michael Carroll of Carl Sandburg Middle School’s Cougars Helping Animals club. Bob Fliegel, of Westfield, and his canine companion Efram visited Carl Sandburg Middle School on Dec. 7. Fiegel, who has cerebral palsy, received Efram from Canine Companions for Independence, a not-for-profit organization that provides specially…

  • Local officials debate bill that would move BOE elections

    Politics, voting on the school budget are topics of discussion BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer Moving school board elections from April to November has been a long-discussed statewide proposal, with advocates and detractors equally firm on their positions. Bill A-4394/S-3148, currently making it through the Legislature, would grant local school boards that option, and the New…

  • Turnpike Authority to pay for share of Chevalier Ave. improvements

    Assemblyman Wisniewski says damage due to underground utility repairs, runoff from Parkway BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer SAYREVILLE — The New Jersey TurnpikeAuthority will pick up half the tab for improvements to Chevalier Avenue after Assemblyman John Wisniewski lobbied the board on behalf of Sayreville. At the Borough Council’s Nov. 28 meeting, Barbara Kilcommons, a resident…