Category: Suburban News
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Janice Dusko (c) of Sayreville attends the Middlesex County Senior Health and Fitness Walk at Roosevelt Park in Edison Sept. 21. The Board of Chosen Freeholders and county Office on Aging and Disabled Services hosted the event, which drew almost 500 participants and included blood pressure, glucose and balance screenings. JEFF GRANIT staff
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Middlesex County PDs equipped with automated license plate readers
Middlesex County has purchased Automated License Plate Recognition Systems (ALPR’s) for police departments throughout the county. The ALPRs, mounted to the roof or on the trunk of a patrol car, automatically read license plates as the police vehicle is on patrol. The readers then compare the registration information against various databases. The system automatically alerts…
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Newly opened Broadway Bistro presents ‘best burger in town’
Sayreville resident sought to open a place that was like a second home for customers BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent Tammy Brewer talks with customers at the newly opened Broadway Bistro in South Amboy on Sept. 20. PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff SOUTH AMBOY — Tammy Brewer didn’t go looking for a new career, but when…
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Food bank harvest
Amisha Patel (l) and Caitlin Starr, fifth-graders at Leroy Gordon Cooper School in Old Bridge, plant seedlings at Cottrell Field, off Route 516, as part of a character education initiative for community service. The students will donate the fall and spring harvests to the Old Bridge Food Bank. Hauser Farms in Old Bridge is assisting…
