Category: Suburban News

  • WELCOME TO… Treasures of the Jersey Shore

    Summer fun in Ocean Grove starts this weekend BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer Downtown Ocean Grove A “town for all seasons,” Ocean Grove has something for everyone all year round. The one-square-mile, “dry” town offers visitors one mile of pristine beachfront and scenic boardwalk, according to Ocean Grove Chamber of Commerce member Lois Hetfield. There…

  • Monroe youth gets early start on acting career

    BY CHRISTINA HABERSTROH Staff Writer Christion Guido MONROE— Baseball, Boy Scouts and guitar lessons are just a few things Christion Guido likes to do when he isn’t in front of a camera. But the fifth-grader at Woodland Elementary School has a career that is quickly taking off as a young actor and model. Christion’s mother,…

  • Earth Day efforts

    Aaliyah Wideman and Michael Marque, students in Kathy Mazur’s class at Sayreville Middle School, decorate paper bags April 14 to raise awareness of Earth Day. The bags were later displayed at the ShopRite on Washington Road in Parlin. KATHY MAZUR

  • Voters give thumbs up to Old Bridge school budget

    Weber, Andriani, Dunn win three-year terms on board BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent The Old Bridge Board of Education’s $131.7 million budget won voters’ approval during the April 27 election, allowing school officials to breathe a sigh of relief. The budget passed by a vote of 1,986 to 1,462. “Clearly, I’m ecstatic that the budget passed,”…

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    Girl Scouts and other volunteers plant a tree at International Field near Sayreville Borough Hall on April 30 in celebration of Arbor Day. The borough’s Shade Tree Commission teamed with local Scout troops to plant trees. ERIC SUCAR staff

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    Sacred Heart School students Arek Moczulski (l-r), Daniel Fernandes, Patrick Scupp and Alyssa Pipitone work on programming a robot during an April 20 meeting of the South Amboy school’s newly formed Lego Robotics Club. The school has four groups of student teams creating robots. JEFF GRANIT staff

  • Federal ruling threatens Old Bridge power plant

    BPU, energy company face opposition from grid operator due to ‘uneconomic entry’ BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer Old Bridge officials will continue to forge ahead with plans to construct a power plant despite a federal ruling that threatens to derail the project. Only two weeks after NRG Energy was awarded a competitive state contract to…

  • Removal of hundreds of trees raises concerns

    Shade Tree officials say town should be compensated BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer A larmed by the number of trees cut down to make way for an improvement project at Bordentown Avenue and Ernston Road in Sayreville, members of the Shade Tree Commission want action. Middlesex County and borough officials recently held a groundbreaking celebration…

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    Student models put the finishing touches on their outfits during the April 13 Slam Dunk the Junk Carnival and Fashion Show at the Geoge Bush Senior Center in Old Bridge. Students modeled garments and accessories that they made from recycled materials. ERIC SUCAR staff