Category: Suburban News
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E.B. family steps up effort against ‘tummy problems’
Lemonade Stand fundraiser to run from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 16 at Warnsdorfer BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — The kid had a valid question. As his East Brunswick family prepared for its annual trek to Canada to help a relative run a lemonade stand fundraiser for heart disease and stroke…
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Project ACES: The World’s Largest Exercise Class
Jenna Manlanga (center) participates in Project ACES: The World’s Largest Exercise Class, at the Walter M. Schirra School in Old Bridge May 5. The event takes place each May as part of National Physical Fitness and Sports Month. More photos at gmnews.com. JEFF GRANIT staff
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Boro to spend $16.5M on facility expansion
Sayreville expects move to bring self-sufficiency to its water operation BY JENNIFER BOOTON Staff Writer The Sayreville Borough Council has approved a temporary capital budget for 2010 with a last-minute inclusion of $16.5 million to expand the Bordentown Avenue Water Treatment Plant. The council simultaneously introduced an ordinance at its May 10 meeting that would…
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South Amboy council reduces school tax hike
Orders $178K reduction, recommends fewer sports and additional layoffs BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent The South Amboy City Council has ordered a cut of $178,000 from the defeated school budget. The Board of Education will now have to decide how to achieve that reduction. The school tax increase would now be $80 on the average home,…
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Zumba fitness class
Instructor Denise Morgan, who lives in the Morgan section of Sayreville, leads an introductory Zumba fitness class at Sayreville Middle School on May 4. SCOTT FRIEDMAN
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Board nearing approval of apartment complex
Northwood Manor was originally approved in 2003 as a senior community BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer The Old Bridge Zoning Board of Adjustment is inching closer to a decision on a developer’s request to remove the age restriction from a senior housing development. The applicant for the plan known as Northwood Manor hopes to transition…
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Two Sayreville teens rise to Eagle Scout rank
John DelRe SAYREVILLE — Two local teenagers were recently honored at an Eagle Scout Court of Honor, having reached Boy Scouting’s highest level. John DelRe, 18, and Jake Werb, 17, both of Troop 68, were awarded their Eagle badges during an April ceremony at American Legion Post 211. For his Eagle Scout project, DelRe cleaned…
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O.B. soccer league scores big for people of Haiti
Coach helps to construct water tanks; delivers soccer balls, uniforms BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer Chaz Rynkiewicz, a soccer coach from Old Bridge, meets with children in a “tent city” during his trip to Haiti in April, when he delivered soccer balls and uniforms courtesy of the Old Bridge Girls Soccer League. OLD BRIDGE —…
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E.B., Sayreville men plead guilty in bank robbery
Two area men have pleaded guilty to charges arising from the robbery of a bank in South River last October. Steven Spearnock, 45, of East Brunswick, pleaded guilty to a count of robbery, while Brian D. Niewinsky, 48, of Sayreville, pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit a theft and resisting arrest, according to the Middlesex…
