Category: Suburban News

  • Early days of radio

    Richard Brill, an expert on antique radios, discusses the evolution of wireless radios during a lecture on the early days of radio at the Old Bridge Public Library Aug. 28. PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff

  • Playhouse slates shows thru June at new home

    Comedy kicks off first season at Community Arts Center EAST BRUNSWICK — Playhouse 22, the township’s community theater troupe, is gearing up for its first shows in four years. In fact, the company has a full season of shows slated, beginning this month and running through June. The season is the troupe’s first at its…

  • $1.3 million transfer raises concerns in O.B.

    Councilman: Administration is ‘robbing Peter to pay Paul’ BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer As Old Bridge officials review the recently introduced transition-year municipal budget, some are voicing concerns regarding the appropriation of certain municipal funds. Republican Councilman Richard Greene has expressed his discontent with the township’s use of $1.3 million from the reserve fund of…

  • Fundraisers

    Sept. 5 • Car Wash, sponsored by the Spotswood High School Touchdown Club, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., at Spotswood High School, 105 Summerhill Road. Cost is $5 per car. Proceeds benefit the school’s football program. Saturdays, Sept. 5-26 • Weekend Warrior Camps for a Cause, to benefit the South River Food Bank, sponsored by Total Core…

  • Retired Secret Service member joins council

    Goals include Broadway revitalization, rehiring officers BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent SOUTH AMBOY — The city’s new third ward councilman has seen politics from a different angle … as part of the Secret Service. William Schwarick, who is taking the seat vacated by John O’Connell, knows the nation’s capital all too well. Schwarick spent 29 years…

  • Raritan Bay Cougars program receives AED, related training

    OLD BRIDGE — The Raritan Bay Cougars Pop Warner program has become a recipient of the Janet Zilinski Memorial Fund’s AED donation grant. The AED will ensure that the youth athletics program is equipped with the necessary training, equipment and resources to help prevent sudden cardiac arrest, an instant killer of thousands each year. After…

  • Police: Driver was drunk in crash that injured two pedestrians

    OLD BRIDGE — A 40-year-old Matawan man who police said was under the influence struck and injured two pedestrians while driving on Route 516 early Sunday morning. The driver, John Stevens, was traveling west on Route 516 in a 2005 Honda Accord when his vehicle hit William J. Ryan, 23, and Joann Reilly, 40, both…

  • Jeep crashes through apartment

    BY JENNIFER BOOTON Staff Writer STEVEN M. BARON Sayreville police and emergency personnel investigate an accident in which a sportutility vehicle crashed through the front window of a residential unit at the Winding Wood Apartments off Bordentown Avenue around 2 p.m. Aug. 25. SAYREVILLE — A sport utility vehicle crashed through the front window of…

  • Ex-resident launches site for Morgan history

    BY JENNIFER BOOTON Staff Writer SAYREVILLE — Not many people may know that the oldest railroad in New Jersey ran right next to the borough’s Morgan section, or that the Revolutionary War saw British and American ships in the Raritan Bay. But one former Morgan resident intends to explore these and other facts and make…