Category: Suburban News

  • Farmers setting up shop Saturdays in Jamesburg

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer SCOTT FRIEDMAN Barbara Gibbons of Jamesburg picks out a head of lettuce during the Jamesburg Revitalization Coalition’s season-opening farmers market Saturday. The expanded market has been moved to the parking lot of the Jamesburg Presbyterian Church, Gatzmer Avenue and Church Street, and will be held on Saturdays through Oct. 3.…

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    JEFF GRANIT staff Ashley Force Hood, in the Castrol GTX Mustang, lines up Saturday during the NHRA SuperNationals at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park. Force Hood raced to her third final in a row, but two-time world champion Funny Car driver Tony Pedregon got a jump-start at the starting line and beat her to the…

  • Owner agrees to close bar, sell license

    Cagney’s Pub shuts down in wake of ABC charges BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer Cagney’s Pub agreed to cease operation last week after decades of operating in Sayreville. The Washington Road business was cited for violating state Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control regulations associated with incidents in both January and April. Borough officials reached an…

  • O.B. still hoping to buy former Cottrell Farm

    Phillips eyes ‘display farm,’ preserving adjacent land BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer Months after the Planning Board denied an application to develop 27 acres of farmland, Old Bridge officials are starting to make headway in negotiations to preserve the former Cottrell Farm and an adjacent 36 acres known as Whitney Estates. The building application, known…

  • Boro man seeks record for longest drawing

    Guinness World Records reviewing evidence BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer A24-year-old Sayreville resident recently endeavored to set a new world record for the longest color pencil drawing. Osvaldo Bianchi of Sayreville drags a tape measure along what is believed to be the world’s longest stretch of color pencil drawings. Jainthan Francis, of Winding Wood Apartments,…

  • Brick man pleads guilty to O.B., other bank heists

    ABrick Township man pleaded guilty on June 3 to committing a series of six bank robberies on consecutive Thursdays in Ocean, Middlesex and Monmouth counties, Acting U.S. Attorney Ralph J. Marra Jr. announced. Peter A. Bielecke, 41, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Joel A. Pisano in Trenton to one count of bank robbery. Pisano…

  • Retiring the flag

    The American Legion Post 211, Sayreville, held its annual Flag Day ceremony for the proper retirement of American flags Sunday. Post Chaplain John Merritt (front) salutes alongside Post Cmdr. Arnold Valentino.

  • Board frustrated over polling location issue

    At odds with county in effort to move polls from schools BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer SAYREVILLE — Local officials and parents who want polling locations moved from district schools for safety reasons say they are frustrated with the response from county officials so far. The Middlesex County Board of Elections evaluated a borough school…

  • Safety first

    PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Above: Obdyke siblings Taylor, 6, and Robert, 5, learn how things work on the first aid squad thanks to volunteers Scott Behnke (l) and Justin Galatro during Safety Awareness Day on June 6. Police and other emergency responders were on hand to educate the public during the event, held outside Friendly’s…