Category: Suburban News

  • Holiday tradition returns to E. Bruns. for 15th anniversary

    — Brian Donahue Fred Dennehy of Cranbury plays “Ebenezer Scrooge” in the 15th anniversary production of the Charles Dickens classic. SCOTT FRIEDMAN EAST BRUNSWICK — Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” has long been a part of the holiday season for countless families through the generations. And TonyAdase has been seeing to it that Middlesex County…

  • Road Show returns to Edison

    A collector with the Ohio Valley Refinery & Road Show checks out jewelry items during a recent event. The Springfield, Ill.-based company holds more than 70 shows each year. EDISON — The Ohio Valley Refinery & Road Show is back in town this week, looking to buy precious metals, jewelry, historical artifacts, antiques and other…

  • Make-A-Wish castle opens gates, grants first wish

    Donors, officials herald arrival of fairy-tale-like facility in Monroe BY JAMES McEVOY Staff Writer Children participate in the Dec. 2 grand-opening ceremony at the Samuel & Josephine Wishing Place, the newly built castle on Perrineville Road in Monroe that will serve as headquarters of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of New Jersey. PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff…

  • Sayreville disputes reports that sediment is coming

    National Lead site considered for material being dredged from Middletown lake BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer SAYREVILLE — Questions still abound over whether dredged sediment from aMiddletown lake will be transported to the former National Lead site. At a Nov. 14 public hearing in Middletown, a New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) official said Sayreville…

  • Police on lookout for drunken drivers

    The Old Bridge Police Department is cracking down on drunken drivers through Jan. 2 as part of the holiday season Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over statewide campaign. Local and state law-enforcement officers are conducting saturation patrols and sobriety checkpoints looking for motorists who may be driving while intoxicated. The campaign, which is designed to…

  • PSE&G lowers natural gas bills

    PSE&G has announced that it is lowering residential gas bills by an additional 4.6 percent, or nearly $8.53 per winter month for the typical residential customer. The utility said the action represents the eighth decrease in a row for residential customers, for a total of more than $614, or 35 percent, in savings since January…

  • Sayreville students gear up for holiday show with a twist

    BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer SAYREVILLE — The Sayreville War Memorial High School cafeteria will be filled with the sights and sounds of the Renaissance, as well as all the drama of Shakespeare, during the school choir’s third annual Madrigal Dinner- Show on Dec. 9 and 10. Choir members will perform “A Christmas Eve Knight’s Dream,”…

  • So. Amboy man channels ‘hopes and dreams’ through poetry

    Self-publishing his fourth book, Charles Lobaito focuses on the human experience BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent SOUTH AMBOY — By day, resident Charles Lobaito is an assistant manager at Harmon Stores in Matawan. But in his off hours, Lobaito is tapping into his creative side and writing poetry. Lobaito recently self-published a book of poetry called…

  • Veteran’s widow helps youths plan for college

    Scholarship society to hold registration Dec. 10 for May 20 cotillion BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer Staff Sgt. Johnnie A. Walker, wife Barbara and daughter Phelarn in a family portrait taken upon Phelarn’s high school graduation in 1982. SAYREVILLE — Barbara Walker has been the proud spokesman of her husband’s history of military service since his…