Category: Suburban News
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Local ‘heroes’
PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Above: Theresa Packard from Lowe’s of Old Bridge and Michael DiDonato secure crossbeams on the new canopy roof they and others from the home improvement store built Saturday at the Birchwood senior apartment complex on Mimi Road in Old Bridge. Below: As part of the Lowe’s Heroes program, about 20 volunteers…
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Board pushes Cottrell Farm hearing to Dec. 2
BY ZACH LEVINE Correspondent Despite the township’s ongoing push to purchase the Cottrell Farm in Old Bridge, a developer is moving forward with plans to build there. The Planning Board heard the plans for Carriage House Crossing on Oct. 28, but ran out of time and continued the matter to the Dec. 2 meeting. Carriage…
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Celebrating 44 years of triumph, tradition
Old Bridge heralds arrival of new Lombardi field BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer They called it a field of dreams, but now it has become a reality. Vince Lombardi Stadium, an aging Old Bridge landmark that has been home to countless high school football games since it was built in 1964, has seen a long…
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Jenewicz gets 30 years to life in second trial
South River man killed, dismembered girlfriend BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer George Jenewicz was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison on Nov. 14 for fatally shooting his live-in girlfriend in his South River home 10 years ago. The 55-year-old will not be eligible for parole until he serves at least 221/2 years in…
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Local theatergoers off to see the ‘Wizard’
Shows to be staged in South Amboy Friday-Sunday BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent There will be no place like South Amboy this weekend. That is especially the case because Triple H Productions’ performance of “The Wizard of Oz” is opening. ED WOJTASZEK Cast members from Triple H Productions’ “The Wizard of Oz” rehearse for the shows,…
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Republicans cry foul over appointments
Democrats laud agency for progress with Nat’l Lead BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer Sayreville officials on Monday debated the appointment of two Democrats to a redevelopment agency that has made gains recently in the town’s largest redevelopment effort. In the end, the Borough Council resolved to appoint two new members to terms on the Sayreville…
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Photo
JEFF GRANIT staff Yuvraj Oberoi, a seventh-grader at Carl Sandburg Middle School, Old Bridge, takes a shot during the Basketball-A-Thon Nov. 12 to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tenn. See story, page 8.
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Taco Bell robber forced employees into freezer
SAYREVILLE — Police rescued three employees of a local fast-food restaurant from the freezer after an unknown suspect forced them in there during a robbery. The victims, two adults and one juvenile, were unharmed in the incident, which occurred at the Taco Bell on the northbound side of Route 9 at 1 a.m. on Nov.…
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Father of the Bride
Above: Julie Marron, as Delilah, presents Michael Rogers and Holly Gurbisz, as Buckley and Kay, with their first wedding present in a scene from the Old Bridge High School Drama Club’s “Father of the Bride.” The show will be presented at 7 p.m. Nov. 20, 21 and 22 in the auditorium at the high school’s…
