Category: Suburban News

  • Sayreville will bond for vehicles, improvements

    In response to concerns, mayor says borough ‘is a frugal, not a wasteful, town’ BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer SAYREVILLE — Two bond ordinances totaling $2.9 million were approved by the Borough Council at its Aug. 22 meeting despite some argument about the spending. The first ordinance, calling for $660,000 in bonds for new vehicles and…

  • Security ordinance to remain unchanged

    BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI Staff Writer OLD BRIDGE — The Township Council will not revisit an ordinance requiring overnight businesses to have two employees working at all times, according to council President Kevin Calogera. The ordinance, adopted in 1986, requires that township businesses that are open between the hours of 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. have…

  • Missing teen’s body found on beach

    OLD BRIDGE — Police have found the body of a township teenager who was reported missing from the Cliffwood Beach section last week. Erick McDonald, 17, was found dead just before 7 a.m. Aug. 27 in the area behind the Old Bridge Municipal Utilities Authority building at 71 Boulevard West. The teen had last been…

  • So. Amboy library gets grant for DVDs

    Mary Rager, secretary, and Mimi Pichey, president of the Dowdell Library Foundation, present a grant to Catherine Charmello, board president, and Elaine Gaber, director of South Amboy’s Sadie Pope Dowdell Public Library. The grant will be used to enhance the library’s entertainment collection. SOUTH AMBOY — The Dowdell Library Foundation presented a $2,000 check to…

  • More speeding enforcement called for in South Amboy

    Officials, residents discuss traffic issues, industrial sites, boat ramp BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent SOUTH AMBOY — Residents brought speeding problems and other issues to officials’ attention during the City Council’s Aug. 17 meeting, and received updates on several local matters. Phil English told the council that he is concerned about dump trucks that travel through…

  • Power out in Milltown due to flooded substation

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer MILLTOWN — Hurricane Irene’s fierce winds and severe flooding has left the borough in the dark. Power remained out since about 4:15 a.m. Sunday, when officials made the decision to shut down the electric substation on Washington Avenue before it flooded, Police Chief Raymond Geipel said. “We have our officials…

  • Zimmerli to exhibit works of two Venetian masters

    Above: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo’s “Old Man with Turban” is among the etchings included in the “Two Venetian Masters” exhibition at the Zimmerli Art Museum. Left: “View of a Town on a River Bank,” from 1744. New Brunswick — The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers will evoke the brio at the heart of 18th-century Venetian art…

  • Concession stand, restrooms planned for Lombardi Field

    Construction would complete longstanding improvement plan for Knights home field BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI Staff Writer OLD BRIDGE — Over the past few years, Lombardi Field at Carl Sandburg Middle School has seen a lot of renovations: a new track, turf field, state-of-the-art lighting and new stadium seating. Now, the Board of Education is hoping to…

  • Crime Stoppers offers reward for info. in New Brunswick homicide

    Crime Stoppers of Middlesex County is offering a cash reward to anyone who anonymously provides information that leads to an arrest in the fatal shooting of a city hospital worker in New Brunswick. The offer is being made during the investigation into the Aug. 6 death of Jesse Simons, 61, of New Brunswick, according to…