Category: Suburban News

  • July – time stops in the garden

    GREEN SCENE GOTTI KELLEY “Be a fountain, not a drain.” – Rex Hudler I f you are an uber-organized laptop jockey with overstuffed schedules, do I have a solution for you! Garden for the challenge of it and make your mark. And while you are at it, dream. It’s one of gardening’s big payoffs. Surrounded…

  • Rain, rain, don’t go away

    Residents make rain barrels to help recycle water BY KELLY CRAIG Correspondent Lisa Veliath-Houston (l) of Piscataway and Dale Duchai work together to build a rain barrel during a workshop at the Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County in Davidson’s Mill Pond Park on July 14. LAUREN CASSELBERRY SOUTH BRUNSWICK — “We quickly filled the…

  • Papi retires after 8 years as county health officer

    David A. Papi, director and health officer of the Middlesex County Public Health Department, has retired after more than 40 years with the department. Papi began his career with the health department as an inspector trainee, rising through the ranks as a sanitary inspector, senior inspector, principal inspector, chief inspector, deputy director and, finally, director…

  • Speakers series offers support for those affected by Sept. 11

    NEW BRUNSWICK — Voices of September 11th, which provides support and information to family members affected by the terrorist attacks, is continuing with its 10th anniversary speaker series this summer. Most recently, the series featured Nicci Spinazzola, a marriage and family therapist, professional counselor and expert in trauma stress. Two additional speakers are scheduled for…

  • Singers follow Rundgren tour by forming new trio

    Heartsville to perform at E.B.’s Unitarian Society BY CHRISTINA HABERSTROH Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Music and religion are a big part of Kimberly Andersen’s life, so perhaps it’s only appropriate that her band make its official debut at a house of worship. The township resident is one-third of the newly formed singing group Heartsville,…

  • Hospital goes tobacco- and smoke-free

    NEW BRUNSWICK — Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) has gone 100 percent smoke-free and tobacco free on all surrounding grounds and facilities owned, leased or operated by the hospital. The smoke-free zone, expanded earlier this month, covers all RWJUH locations, including its various New Brunswick facilities and sites, the Old Bridge Health and Fitness…

  • O.B. law with tragic origin back on table

    Ordinance dating to 1986 requires two employees at overnight businesses BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI Staff Writer He wasn’t even supposed to work on Christmas Day. But Neil P. Pannetta Jr., an Old Bridge resident, was a hard worker and a loyal employee who didn’t like to disappoint. Sure it was an overnight shift Christmas Eve into…

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    Kim Gruning of the Wallaby Tales Traveling Zoo shows children a skunk during a special summer event at the Sadie Pope Dowdell Library in South Amboy on July 14. Other live animals featured included a fennec fox, a rat, a chinchilla and a wallaby. LAUREN CASSELBERRY

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    Justin Bonczek and Molly Balseiro, both 16, act out a scene during Monday night’s dress rehearsal for the Main Street Juniors’ production of “Once on This Island,” a Caribbean musical adaptation of the fairy tale “The Little Mermaid.” Shows run July 15-30 at the Main Street Theatre, Bordentown Avenue, Parlin. More photos, page 24. SCOTT…