Category: Suburban News

  • A hometown baseball legend is remembered

    Shop owners deliver on decades-old promise to mother of Frankie Hayes BY CHRISTINA HABERSTROH Staff Writer A baseball card from Frankie Hayes’ time with the Philadelphia Athletics, with whom he spent most of his career. JEFF GRANIT staff JAMESBURG — A local couple has stepped up to the plate to fulfill a 40-year-old promise they…

  • Local playwrights ‘choose to laugh’ — you will, too

    Play looks at highs & lows of life in adult communities BY CHRISTINA HABERSTROH Staff Writer Brandon Allentoff (l-r) of Howell, and Milt Keiles and Arnold Brown, both of Monroe, rehearse a scene from “Fade Out at Clo-Achers.” The play, written by Monroe residents Myra Danon and Meryl Berness, steps beyond the security gates of…

  • Survivor: Whatever you want to do, you can do it

    Alum visits school during Relay for Life week to share his experiences battling cancer BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI Staff Writer Evan Ruggiero shows his prosthetic leg to students at Walter Schirra Elementary School in Old Bridge as Principal Colleen Montuori holds the chair steady on June 9. Ruggiero, who lost his leg to cancer, graduated from…

  • Sayreville’s The Point gets first major tenant

    Bass Pro Shops signs on for 200,000-square-foot store BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer The giant redevelopment project on the former National Lead site in Sayreville took another step toward becoming a reality last week when its first retail commitment was announced. O’Neill Properties Group, developer of The Point, announced June 13 that Bass Pro Shops…

  • Old Bridge youth, 14, a published author

    Credits teacher as inspiration for his novel BY ELLEN MONTEMARANO Staff Writer Timothy Janovsky ‘R eborn,” written by Old Bridge’s Timothy Janovsky, sounds like a typical teen fantasy novel. Boy meets girl and falls in love. Girl was reborn after a tragic death. They have to deal with normal teen angst and complications of the…

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    Cousins Gabriel Karabinchak of Old Bridge and Kaysi Fajardo take a spin on the YoYo during the North Brunswick Youth Sports Festival on June 10. SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • Photo contest to capture five decades of open space preservation

    A picture may be worth a thousand words, but how many pictures would it take to capture the beauty of preserving 650,000 acres of open space and parks in New Jersey over the past 50 years? That’s the challenge the N.J. Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is putting into the shutter-happy hands of residents and…

  • Six townhouses destroyed in afternoon blaze in Sayreville

    BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer SAYREVILLE — After an initial call about an exterior air conditioner fire at a Park Village townhouse, borough firefighters and crews from seven other towns fought for 45 minutes to control what turned into a threealarm blaze that gutted six homes. Firefighters responding to the call on Daisy Court at…

  • Old Bridge woman finds labor of love, on a truck

    Mamma Marci’s wins hot dog title in showdown at Monmouth Park BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI Staff Writer Marci Smith-Scarano For 34 years, Old Bridge resident Marci Smith- Scarano worked hard for the “friendly skies,” teaching customer service and escorting the rich and famous at the United Airlines Red Carpet Club at Newark Liberty International Airport. But…