Category: Suburban News

  • Old Bridge welcomes new top administrators

    Jacobs resigns as business administrator; Convery retires as township attorney BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer The new year is bringing new faces to two crucial posts in Old Bridge’s government. Township Attorney Jerome Convery and Business Administrator Michael Jacobs said farewell to Old Bridge at the last council meeting of 2010 in anticipation of their…

  • Scott ‘opens doors’ as county sheriff

    Ex-freeholder is Middlesex’s first new sheriff in 30 years, first female sheriff BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer The Hon. Travis L. Francis (r), assignment judge of the state Superior Court Middlesex Vicinage, administers the oath of office to Sheriff Mildred S. Scott as her mother, Gertrude Lincoln, and husband, Richard D. Scott, hold the Bible…

  • Writing the script to a new friendship

    Pen pal program between Sayreville elementary and H.S. students adds twist every year BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer Above: Rachel Zhao, 8, shares a laugh with Sayreville War Memorial High School student Courtney Lopez during the Jan. 7 event at Harry S. Truman School. Below: Dakota Cusmano, 7, reads her profile to the high school…

  • Local author helps students realize their ‘bubble gum dreams’

    Stresses value of hard work and the determination needed to self-publish a book BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer Old Bridge resident Mary Ann Castagnetta discusses her book “Elephant Soup?” with students at Southwood Elementary School. OLD BRIDGE — Mary Ann Castagnetta urged Southwood School students to follow their “bubble gum dreams” last month, and she’ll…

  • Minor changes as O.B. reorganizes for 2011

    BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer OLD BRIDGE — With no major elections in the preceding year and few new appointments, the township’s annual reorganization meeting was a quiet affair. The Jan. 3 meeting of the governing body sawthe reappointment of many familiar faces, with the only notable changes occurring within the makeup of the Planning…

  • Drug Court a fresh start for graduates

    Enrollees undergo treatment while working or attending school BY CHRISTINA HABERSTROH Staff Writer NEW BRUNSWICK — Twenty participants in the Middlesex County Drug Court program were honored with a graduation ceremony recently in the Freeholder Meeting Room of the county administration building. Thiswas the fourth graduation since the intensive probationary and drug treatment program began…

  • Boxing out bullies

    Top to bottom: As part of the district’s yearlong anti-bullying, anti-harassment initiative, students at Old Bridge’s 12 elementary schools have been participating in the “Box Out Bullying” program, which features a comedic duo and uses audience participants and improvisational comedy to address bullying and how to stop it. During a recent program at M. Scott…

  • Cops throw annual holiday party for kids

    OLD BRIDGE — The township police department’s Cops for Kids program sponsored its 16th annual holiday party for families in need at the George Bush Senior Center on Dec. 17. Some 80 children from nearly 40 families attended the invitation-only event, receiving gifts from Santa Claus and enjoying dinner and dessert with their loved ones.…

  • Photo

    Lily Ypi, a member of the 1992 and 1996 U.S. Olympic table tennis teams, gets ready for a smash return during a kickoff exhibition for the Old Bridge YMCA’s table tennis program Dec. 29. More photos at gmnews.com. SCOTT FRIEDMAN