Category: Suburban News
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Residents: Cell tower too close for comfort
BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer OLD BRIDGE — Omnipoint Communications wants to construct a 150-foot cell tower on Route 516, but residents of Whispering Pines Estates, a neighboring development, want it to hang up the plans. The applicant appeared before the Zoning Board of Adjustment on March 5, seeking preliminary and major site plan approval…
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Students at Sayreville Middle School and Samsel Upper Elementary School recently participated in a campaign to collect supplies for soldiers. Personal care items, snacks, videos and books were collected and will be shipped to military personnel overseas, including soldiers and marines who have connections to Sayreville. Here, middle school students Ryan Mosser (l-r), Alyssa Leano,…
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St. Mary’s pianist set for chamber concert
Became artist in residence after wowing audiences as teen BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent SOUTH AMBOY — Jeannette Fang loves classical music, but she loves sharing it with an audience even more. That’s why, as pianist-in-residence, Fang said she is excited to present an evening of 19th- and 20th-century chamber music on Sunday as part of…
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‘With Open Eyes I’ve Realized’
State and local officials recently honored Sayreville War Memorial High School junior Christopher Amat for his anti-violence poem “With Open Eyes I’ve Realized.” Pictured are (back row, from left) teacher Joseph Schlaline, Christopher’s father Miguel Vergara and Senate President Richard J. Codey; and (front, from left) grandparents Florencio Amat and Juana Amat, sister Madelyn Vergara,…
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Woman feared for life during home invasion
BY AMY ROSEN Staff Writer MANALAPAN — When the residents of a Terence Drive home moved here from the Bronx, N.Y., 26 years ago, they had an alarm system installed. Coming to the suburbs from the city, where being conscientious about security was a way of life, they never imagined that one day they would…
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ERIC SUCAR staff Ronald McDonald visits students at the Sacred Heart School in South Amboy Feb. 26 to thank them for collecting soda can tabs for the Ronald McDonald House. He spoke to the students about good citizenship and helping one’s community. See story, page 9.
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Apartment complex sues boro over law
New ordinance regulates security at Winding Wood BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer The owner of the largest apartment complex in Sayreville is suing the borough, claiming that a local ordinance on security applies only to its community of 1,950 housing spaces. Hillside Estates, the owner of Winding Wood Apartments, filed the lawsuit in Superior Court…
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Group says board is using delaying tactics
O.B. seeks more info. on plan for worship center, homes BY TOYNETTE HALL Staff Writer It was another setback for a religious group seeking to build a worship center and residences off Englishtown and Pension roads in Old Bridge. As they had at previous meetings over the past two years, township officials told members of…
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CHRIS KELLY staff Mia Berardi, 5, of Old Bridge, colors a new mask during the Carnivale Italian Mardi Gras Festival held Feb. 22 at the Excelsior in Manalapan.
