Category: Suburban News

  • S. Amboy tab calls for 12 layoffs, 6% tax hike

    School board changes initial proposal in order to restore some positions, programs BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent The South Amboy Board of Education plans to cut 12 positions and raise taxes 6 percent in order to close a budget deficit caused by a reduction in state aid. The Board of Education found itself in a difficult…

  • Two critical after explosion

    SOUTH AMBOY — Two people injured in an explosion that destroyed a onestory home last week remained in critical condition as of Tuesday afternoon, according to a hospital spokeswoman. A 49-year-old man and 33-year-old woman remained in the burn unit of Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, Essex County. The man was listed in critical…

  • Neighbors, O.B. business at odds over firewood plan

    Applicant seeks approval to cut, process, deliver firewood from Rt. 516 site BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer OLD BRIDGE — A plan to add a firewood manufacturing outfit onto an existing Route 516 business has garnered opposition from some nearby residents. The application from J. Spinelli Enterprises, which has an existing wood and farm container…

  • Show time

    Above: Richard Romanko and Lindsay Kopp act out a scene from “Urinetown” during dress rehearsal April 1 at the Main Street Theatre Co.’s Parlin theater. Shows will be performed at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, April 9-24, and at 2 p.m. April 18. Adult tickets are $20; seniors/students, $16; children 14 and under are $14.…

  • Area residents among suspects in drug sweep

    Some 21 adults and a 15-year-old boy were arrested last week in connection with a heroin-trafficking ring in Middlesex and Somerset counties. The roundup followed a six-month investigation by the Somerset County Organized Crime and Narcotics Task Force and the Middlesex County Gangs, Guns and Drugs Task Force; authorities in both counties arrested the suspects…

  • Police charge Sayreville man with luring girl, 13

    SAYREVILLE — Police have arrested a borough man who allegedly tried to abduct a 13-yearold girl as she was jogging in the LaMer housing complex on Ernston Road on April 1. Matthew D. Siehl, 33, of Harrison Street, was charged April 3 with luring or enticing a child, according to Detective Mathew Bandurski of the…

  • Legislators invite public to discuss budget issues

    Citing dramatic cuts proposed for municipal and school aid and social services, state legislators from Middlesex County will hold a budget hearing on the impact of the cuts. Senate Majority Leader Barbara Buono, Assemblyman Patrick J. Diegnan Jr. and Assemblyman Peter J. Barnes III (all D-18th District) said they hope the meeting will help formulate…

  • E.B. chiropractor shares experiences from Olympics

    Dr. Blasé Toto worked with ice dancers, hockey players, speed skaters BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — One of the best moments of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver in February was when Shaun White won a gold medal for snowboarding. However, East Brunswick chiropractor Blasé Toto, a member of the United States…

  • Consignors needed for fair this month

    Children’s items for newborns through size 12 are needed BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Lynn Heuer, of Milltown, and Susan Chinchar, of East Brunswick, met about two years ago at the Little Sprouts of Middlesex club for mothers in Milltown. Heuer, who was pregnant with her second child, became good friends with Chinchar, the mother…