Category: Suburban News

  • Referendum expected to ask for $2.2M more

    Completion of high school work subject of Dec. vote BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer Sayreville residents will go to the polls in December to decide the fate of an ongoing high school construction project that faces cost overruns and delays. The Board of Education voted unanimously in favor of seeking additional funds for the expansion…

  • Rotary funds playground for special needs children

    $250K gift among several given to charity organizations BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer OLD BRIDGE — Keeping with its tradition of giving, the Old Bridge/Sayreville Rotary Club has made a donation that will ensure all children have a place to play. The Rotarians have used money from the sale of their senior housing facility to…

  • Councilman looks out for more than his city

    O’Connell serving in Iraq during bid for re-election BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent South Amboy Councilman John O’Connell won’t be out campaigning this election season. That’s because O’Connell, who is up for re-election Nov. 4, was deployed to Iraq this summer and is slated to remain there until March. A lieutenant colonel in the Air National…

  • Retail building gets approval for Route 516

    BY ZACH LEVINE Correspondent OLD BRIDGE — A divided Planning Board approved a retail building on Route 516 last week. By a 5-4 margin, the board gave the OK to American Barakat Construction following an Oct. 7 hearing. The 7,480-square-foot building is proposed for 8.7 acres near Jake Brown Plaza and fronting on Route 516.…

  • County gets $32M from SERA for loan

    In turn, county buys land, easements along waterfront O’Neill Properties has closed on the largest portion of the former National Lead site. The Pennsylvania-based developer is purchasing the 400-plus-acre waterfront property from the Sayreville Economic Redevelopment Agency (SERA) over the course of three closings. Last week’s transaction allowed SERA, in turn, to pay Middlesex County…

  • Pop art’s bold imagery on display at Zimmerli

    Top: “Reverie,” by former Rutgers professor Roy Lichtenstein, from 1965, is among the prints on exhibit at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers. Bottom: Andy Warhol’s “Vegetarian Vegetable” is from 1969. NEW BRUNSWICK — They’re now universally celebrated artists, but in the 1960s they were pioneers in a new era, known as proto-pop and pop…

  • South Amboy eager to build new YMCA

    BY ZACH LEVINE Correspondent SOUTH AMBOY — Some today only know of the YMCA thanks to a disco group called The Village People, but others know how important this building is to strengthening communities at large. The city is the latest town to sign on for the construction of a YMCA, as its redevelopment agency…

  • Hearings continue on offices, hotel, housing

    Alfieri’s plans, first proposed in mid-1980s, include retail BY ZACH LEVINE Correspondent It has taken M. Alfieri Co. 10 appearances before the Old Bridge Planning Board this year in its quest for approval to build office and retail buildings, a hotel and single-family homes off Laurence Harbor Road. And it will take at least one…

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    ERIC SUCAR staff The Rev. Ken Murphy of St. Stanislaus Kostka Church in Sayreville performs the annual blessing of the animals Oct. 9 at the Sayreville Pet Adoption Center. A past adopter from the animal shelter, the pastor performs the service in honor of the Feast of St. Francis.