Category: Suburban News

  • Life is a carnival

    Left: Regina Lyubovnaya of East Brunswick takes her 1-year-old daughter Sophia for a spin on the carousel during opening night of the Middlesex County Fair in East Brunswick on Aug. 2. The fair runs through Aug. 8 at the county fairgrounds on Cranbury Road. Above: The typhoon soars as high as the treetops. PHOTOS BY…

  • Singer Carol Gerloski performs with her band Shadow Road at Geick Park

    Singer Carol Gerloski performs with her band Shadow Road at Geick Park in Old Bridge July 20. The show was the first of three concerts hosted by Old Bridge this summer. The other shows, by Zanzibar and the Brookdale Big Band, were held July 27 and Aug. 3. ERIC SUCAR staff

  • A rite of passage for an extraordinary young man

    Fourteen-year-old autistic youth celebrates his bar mitzvah BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer Jesse Martinez celebrates his bar mitzvah with his mother, Sari Yates, and Rabbi Eliezer Zaklikovsky of the Chabad Jewish Center of Monroe on July 28. MONROE — The road to his bar mitzvah is not an easy one for a Jewish boy.…

  • Sayreville to consider reverse 911 system

    Council will review price quotes for notification service BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent Widespread flooding in Sayreville last winter has prompted officials to look at buying a reverse 911 system to automatically notify residents about emergencies or other important events. To give an example of how such a system might work, Beth Farino, director of sales…

  • Mother’s mission: Help at-risk veterans

    East Brunswick’s Linda Bean tells congressional panel more services are needed BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer East Brunswick resident Linda Bean was recently sworn in at a hearing in Washington, D.C., and gracefully advised a congressional panel on how the Veterans Administration can improve treatment resources for veterans. Sgt. Coleman Bean Though this was Bean’s…

  • Engineer disputes concern over playgrounds’ ADA compliance

    Resident questions accessibility of city’s new playgrounds BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent SOUTH AMBOY — Resident Eileen Ryan said she wants to make sure the seven new playgrounds in the city are accessible to all children. During the July 21 City Council meeting, Ryan questioned whether all of the playground equipment is in compliance with the…

  • Comedy troupe brings unique act to Old Bridge

    NYC’s Pangea 3000 set for 6:30 p.m. Friday at library BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer OLD BRIDGE — The Old Bridge Public Library may not be New York City’s Comedy Cellar, but tomorrow night the average resident won’t know the difference. Sketch comedy troupe Pangea 3000 is coming to the library Friday evening, armed with…

  • Brad Matchett’s “Agricadabra” show

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Shelby Turiello, 10, of Sayreville, gets a close-up look at Brad Matchett’s “Agricadabra” show on opening night of the Middlesex County Fair in East Brunswick Aug. 2. The fair runs through Aug. 8 at the county fairgrounds on Cranbury Road. More photos, page 18.

  • Bassist Rob Shaw performs

    Bassist Rob Shaw performs as part of Shadow Road, a classic rock cover band, during a concert at Geick Park in Old Bridge July 20. ERIC SUCAR staff