Category: Suburban News

  • Credit card companies facing tighter regulation on campus

    BY MATTHEW ROCCO Correspondent Companies that offer credit card services often visit college campuses in an effort to attract new customers. In New Jersey, the Division of Consumer Affairs has notified all public and private colleges that a new law which took effect in May is regulating that practice. Under the Credit Card Solicitation Act,…

  • County officials celebrate training center expansion

    $1.5M project marks first renovation at 36-year-old law enforcement facility BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer If David B. Crabiel could see the newly expanded police training center, he would say: “The best police training center is in Middlesex County, the greatest county in the land.” That’s according to Paulette Crabiel Wahler, daughter of the late…

  • Sayreville board approves café with hookah lounge

    BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer SAYREVILLE — A new hookah bar is coming to town. The borough Zoning Board of Adjustment recently granted a use variance for the café and hookah lounge to locate at 500 Ernston Road. The lot, at the corner of Westminster Boulevard and just feet from the Old Bridge border, is…

  • O.B. council restricts eminent domain power

    Resident: New ordinance will protect citizens from overzealous elected officials BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer OLD BRIDGE — In response to public demand, the Township Council has adopted an ordinance that limits the power of eminent domain. The law restricts the seizure power of the township’s government under eminent domain. The council discussed the matter…

  • Grissom Elementary School kindergarten teacher John Tichio

    Grissom Elementary School kindergarten teacher John Tichio reads “Clifford the Firehouse Dog” to students on the first day of school in Old Bridge Sept. 7. JEFF GRANIT staff

  • New police captain ‘exactly what an officer should be’

    South Amboy top cops have had parallel careers since growing up together BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent SOUTH AMBOY—The city’s newest police captain, Joseph Matarangolo, was sworn in at the Sept. 1 City Council meeting. The ceremony was the brainchild of Matarangolo’s longtime friend and colleague, Chief Darren LaVigne, and was the first of its kind…

  • Renewed optimism in the air for schools

    Bosco: District minimized effects of budget cuts BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer Despite the district’s budgetary woes and a myriad of related obstacles, Old Bridge Public Schools opened without a hitch on Tuesday. By the time the homeroom bell rang in each of the district’s 15 schools on the first day of classes, all scheduled…

  • Ex-investigator pleads guilty

    A former investigator in the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office pleaded guilty last week to obstructing the administration of law, admitting that he improperly contacted another law enforcement agency for non-investigatory reasons. Brian Lubeski, 46, of Allentown, Monmouth County, entered the plea during an appearance before Judge Frederick P. De- Vesa in New Brunswick on Aug.…

  • No news is good news for Sayreville schools

    Board looks to address various issues this year, but programs, staffing levels remain intact BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer Sayreville’s schoolchildren return to classrooms this week to find programs and staffing pretty much the same as when they left in June. That’s fortunate, compared to the losses suffered in many other area school districts. “We…