Category: Suburban News

  • Ex-sheriff’s investigator latest charged in bribery scheme

    Spicuzzo and a sheriff’s officer were arrested in March A former Middlesex County sheriff’s investigator was arrested July 7 on charges that he assisted former Sheriff Joseph C. Spicuzzo in collecting a bribe from a person seeking a job in the sheriff’s office. Darrin P. DiBiasi, 43, of Monmouth Junction, surrendered to detectives of the…

  • Monroe farm celebrates milestone with concert

    Event at Congress Hill Farm will support Special Strides BY CHRISTINA HABERSTROH Staff Writer Therapy instructor Paula O’Neil is pictured with Gypsy, a therapy horse used to help children with developmental disabilities through the Special Strides program in Monroe. A nearly 200-acre farm that doubles as a haven of happiness for children with disabilities is…

  • Motorcyclist dies following crash

    SAYREVILLE — A borough man injured in a motor vehicle accident on July 5 has died. John Zielinski, 49, had been operating a 1996 Harley-Davidson motorcycle traveling east on Washington Road when it collided with a westbound 2008 Mercury Mariner driven by Elaine Lane, 69, of South River, around 7:20 p.m., according to Sayreville Police…

  • A special theater event to remember a special man

    Show will celebrate the life of Vic Morosco, founder of Main St. Theatre Academy BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent SAYREVILLE — A special event on July 24 will honor a man whose impact on the borough’s Main Street Theatre Company will live on. “Vic Morosco: A Celebration of Life” will highlight the many ways that Vic…

  • Organic cleaning products available

    The Lawrence Brook Watershed Partnership is conducting an Organic (Chemical Free) Fertilizer and Home- Cleaning Product Sale 10 a.m.-noon on Saturdays at the group’s headquarters building, 85 Washington Ave., Milltown. The nonprofit organization, dedicated to the protection of the Lawrence Brook Watershed, seeks to encourage area residents to avoid the use of toxic lawn and…

  • FBI steps up manhunt for armed jewelry store robber

    The masked suspect wore a camouflage zipper hooded jacket or sweatshirt during the jewelry store robbery in Wall Township. He wore a Syracuse hat in the Old Bridge heist. The FBI is partnering with police in Old Bridge and Wall Township, Monmouth County, in the search for a man who committed armed robberies of jewelry…

  • Rucki takes over GOP during big election year

    BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer SAYREVILLE — The borough Republican Organization has a new chairman. John Rucki, a Sayreville resident for the past 16 years, was unanimously elected to take over for Frank Makransky, who stepped down due to health reasons. “I was very humbled by my selection,” Rucki said. “It was a unanimous vote,…

  • ‘Tompkins Road Bear’ awes East Brunswick residents

    Crowd watches as state wildlife officials capture bear in tree BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI Staff Writer Kelcey Burguess of the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife goes over data after a tranquilized black bear fell from a tree into a net in an East Brunswick resident’s yard on July 6. JEFF GRANIT staff EAST BRUNSWICK…

  • Spin city

    Kids take a spin on the Round Up ride at the St. Stan’s Carnival on June 23 at the St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish grounds in Sayreville. LAUREN CASSELBERRY