Category: Suburban News

  • Rival schools play for charity

    PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff Above: Alex Magliocco of Carl Sandburg Middle School makes a catch during the school’s softball game against Jonas Salk Middle School during the two Old Bridge schools’ annual charity softball game May 13 at Veterans Park. Right, Salk’s Kelly Cameron makes a throw to first base after diving for the…

  • Fundraisers

    June 4, ongoing • Bedtime Bags Drive, sponsored by the Junior Woman’s Club of the Greater Brunswick Area. Seeking donations of new children’s books, pajamas, stuffed animals and small blankets to be used in creating Bedtime Bags that will be donated to Foster and Adoptive Family Services. Bedtime Bags encourage foster parents to read bedtime…

  • E.B. girl to sell lemonade, open boutique for charity

    Rebekah Makin (r) and Saige Grant work the lemonade stand last year. EAST BRUNSWICK — A local seventh-grader who last year helped raise $2,400 for children with cancer by selling lemonade with a friend is taking her efforts a step further this year. This month, Rebekah Makin, 13, will open Tara’s Closet, a venue for…

  • Photo

    JEFF GRANIT staff Natalie Norcutt of Jonas Salk Middle School tries to make a tag on Paige Wiatnoski of Carl Sandburg Middle School when the two Old Bridge schools faced off in the annual charity softball game recently at Veterans Park. See page 36.

  • MOM line dead?

    Panel favors service through Monmouth, not Middlesex BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer Passenger train service would be limited to inland Monmouth and Ocean counties if NJ Transit administrators follow through on the recommendation of a working group of stakeholders. On May 27, NJ Transit announced that members of a working group from Monmouth, Ocean and…

  • Developer seeks to add 16 homes to office plan

    Whispering Pines residents gear up for another battle BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer Developer Thomas Galante has returned to the Old Bridge Zoning Board of Adjustment, much to the dismay of some residents who live near his vacant property off Route 516. Galante won approval in January 2007 to construct an office building and water…

  • Parties near closing on National Lead parcel

    Sayreville allocates $800,000 toward open space purchase BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer Sayreville will contribute $800,000 toward the purchase of 70 acres of land on the former National Lead site. The Borough Council voted unanimouslyMay 18 to allocate the funds for the parcel, which is on the eastern side of the expansive NL property, as…

  • Police, supporters rally to save So. Amboy cops

    Five officers expected to be laid off this summer BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent ‘Save Daddy’s job! Save Daddy’s job!” Local resident Carol Tice led children gathered in front of South Amboy’s City Hall in a chant supporting Jake Murray, a city police officer and the husband of Tice’s co-worker Stacy Murray. Two of the children…

  • Veteran’s wartime stories in spotlight 65 years later

    Ed Kolodziej to be featured in new History Channel series BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer Ed Kolodziej wasn’t asked much about his experiences when he came home from World War II in 1945. FILE PHOTO Ed Kolodziej of Sayreville shows some of the medals and mementos from his service with the U.S. Army in World…