Category: Suburban News

  • Supporting the ‘Heroes’ of the horse industry

    Equine Science Center seeks sponsors for mares after loss of state funds BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer Danielle Smarsh of North Brunswick, a graduate student of animal biosciences, takes Winnie to see some of her friends at the Rutgers Equine Science Center off College Farm Road in North Brunswick on Sept. 27. PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN…

  • Fast times ahead at Old Bridge museum

    Thomas Warne Museum set for annual Speedway Weekend BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI Staff Writer OLD BRIDGE — It was the very first raceway that Earl Krause ever went to. Krause, a writer for Area Auto Racing News, a racing historian and announcer at Wall Stadium and Pocono Raceway, said he was 4 ½ years old when…

  • Sprucing up

    Rebeka Cakici (l-r), Maleena Hernandez and Kassandra Cano work with classmates at Sayreville Middle School Sept. 28 to beautify the school grounds by planting colorful mums donated by the school PTO, with the assistance of Sayreville Lawn and Garden. PHOTOS BY KATHY MAZUR Jaspreet Singh (l) and Maleena Hernandez prepare the ground for a planting.…

  • Playwright makes ‘Home’ coming in Sayreville

    Original music will be performed Oct. 8-9 BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer SAYREVILLE — Elaina Tamara Jenkins always loved “The Wizard of Oz.” The fantasy elements and core lesson about finding your way back home appealed to her. Her obsession with the tale grew when she performed in “The Wiz” at East Brunswick’s Playhouse 22. She…

  • Family Legacy Award

    The O’Connell family of Sayreville received the Caldwell College 2011 Family Legacy Award at the college’s Homecoming and Family weekend in September. Lauren and Danielle, Caldwell College alumnae, along with parents Lorraine and Dan, were honored for their years of volunteerism for the college’s events and service programs. Since Lauren and Danielle’s graduation in 2007,…

  • Local P.D.s receive funds for community-policing initiatives

    Twenty-four local police departments will benefit from $120,000 in grants to develop communitypolicing programs. Carteret, Dunellen, East Brunswick, Edison, Helmetta, Highland Park, Metuchen, Middlesex Borough, Milltown, Monroe, New Brunswick, North Brunswick, Old Bridge, Perth Amboy, Piscataway, Plainsboro, Sayreville, South Brunswick, South Plainfield, South River, Spotswood and Woodbridge, as well as the Rutgers University Police Department…

  • Poetry brings solace for Gold Star father

    Milltown’s William Koch Jr. writes to deal with tragic losses of his son and daughter BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Above: The Koch family, William Jr. (l-r), Steven, Billy, Christine and Lynne, celebrates Billy’s high school graduation in 2000. Right: “Casualties of War: Words and Images from the Heart of a Gold Star Father,” published…

  • Irate over Irene

    Local officials, residents air frustrations with JCP&L during BPU meeting BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI Staff Writer When it came to Jersey Central Power & Light Co.’s response to Hurricane Irene at a Sept. 26 Board of Public Utilities meeting, the same types of words kept coming up: Unacceptable. Terrible. A joke. State legislators, municipal officials and…

  • Old Bridge council rejects cable renewal agreement

    Officials say town is unable to switch providers, however BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI Staff Writer Cablevision, according to Councilman Ed Testino, is not a friend of Old Bridge, and the Township Council let the company know it during its meeting on Oct. 3. The council voted 4-4 with one abstention to reject a five-year contract renewal…