Category: Suburban News
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Old Bridge mayor eyes another grim budget for 2011
Township looking at another $2M shortfall BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer While Old Bridge officials have yet to finalize budget line items and tally up operating costs, the financial outlook for 2011 is already shaping up to be challenging. There are still a few weeks of number crunching left before the 2011 municipal budget is…
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Spreading holiday cheer
Top: Kindergartners and eighth-graders from St. Thomas the Apostle School, Old Bridge, teamed up to visit and sing holiday songs to seniors at the Golden Living Center on Route 18 on Dec. 21. Middle right: Santa made an appearance at the Golden Living Center. Right and above: A St. Thomas the Apostle School student hits…
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Sayreville board wants in on Nat’l Lead plans
School officials will have to decide how best to use $19M, where to send new students BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer SAYREVILLE — School officials want to be kept abreast of all details surrounding the planned redevelopment of the former National Lead site, which will impact the school system and its budget. After discussing the…
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South Amboy expands redevelopment plan
Water-related services, new housing, businesses among permitted uses BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent SOUTH AMBOY — The city will allow water-related services such as a marina and ferry dock, as well as new business residential development, as part of the redevelopment plan for Broadway and Main Street. An engineer retained by the city’s Planning Board presented…
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Here’s our whole ‘kitten caboodle’ of goofs and gaffes for 2010
BLOOPERS ADELE YOUNG Every year we like to look back at the typographical and grammatical errors that almost made it into some of Greater Media Newspapers’ 10 weekly publications. These near-gaffes come not only from our own staff, but also from our readers, PR representatives and even job applicants. As hard as the writers and…
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Tod Wilson, owner of Mr. Tod’s Pie Factory, recently conducted a pie-making demonstration with students including Adrienne Dame of Old Bridge and others in the food preparation class at Middlesex County College, Edison. He explained the dough-making process and assisted as the students created their own pies.
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Bill honoring memory of local teen proceeds
Aproposal that would honor a late Sayreville teen by creating a next-ofkin registry to be used to notify family when a loved one is incapacitated in a serious accident is moving forward in the state Legislature. The Assembly approved the bill in a 78- 0 vote in June, and the Senate Budget and Appropriates Committee…
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Omission of Bean bill described as baffling
East Brunswick family, Holt vow to continue fight for improved veterans’ services BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer Sgt. Coleman S. Bean EAST BRUNSWICK — A bill named for a local veteran and intended to strengthen treatment resources for returning soldiers will not be funded this year. Its sudden removal from the federal DefenseAuthorizationAct of 2011…
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O.B. approves transfer of 300 acres to OBMUA
BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer Critics say move is budget-gap tactic; proponents argue reservoir will reduce water-purchase costs Aland acquisition project that is intended to secure an in-house water supply has become an increasingly contentious issue among Old Bridge officials in recent months. Last week, the measure narrowly passed through the governing body. The Township…
