Category: Suburban News

  • Residents may vote for new Hall of Fame class

    The New Jersey Hall of Fame has announced 30 nominees in five categories as the organization launched voting for the class of 2008. These leaders and legends, from presidents to poets, in the categories of Historical, Arts and Entertainment, Sports, Enterprise and General, hail from all corners of New Jersey and share a close relationship…

  • It’s storytime

    Left: Lydia Mathai (l), 5, of Old Bridge, and Chase Cooper, 10 months old, of Aberdeen, have some fun with bubbles during a Storytime session at the Old Bridge Public Library Sept. 30. Bottom left: Giselle Fortuna helps her son, Jason, 9 months, go through the motions of the storytime. Below: Stephanie Cooper and son…

  • O.B. goes after two tracts on Route 516

    Negotiations will target former Cottrell Farm BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer Amid debates, the Old Bridge Township Council voted Monday to authorize negotiations to possibly acquire two properties for open space. Though the township may not purchase both tracts, which are among four recommended recently by the Open Space Committee, Township Attorney Jerome Convery will…

  • Residents escape fire at apartment complex

    BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer ERIC SUCAR staff A worker tends to the roof of the Madison Arms apartments a day after eight families there were left homeless due to fire and water damage. OLD BRIDGE — A fire that tore through the Madison Arms apartments, Rellim Drive, in the early morning of Sept. 24…

  • Redeveloper gets set to take on cleanup

    BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer SAYREVILLE — The Sayreville Economic and Redevelopment Agency (SERA) signed four resolutions last week designating O’Neill Properties as the official redeveloper of the contaminated, 400-acre National Lead site. SERA attorney Michael Baker said the agency has now negotiated the ability to take over the cleanup process from National Lead (NL)…

  • Blood drive planned on behalf of boy, 7

    Local youth diagnosed, hospitalized with leukemia BY MARY ANNE ROSS Correspondent Brian Hack, 7, plays on the beach this summer. He was diagnosed soon after with leukemia and is being treated at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. His friends and supporters will hold a blood drive on his behalf on Oct. 16. OLD…

  • Photo

    PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff Workers are seen clearing debris from a section of the Madison Arms apartments off Throckmorton Lane in Old Bridge last week. The building caught fire before 5 a.m. Sept. 24, significantly damaging eight units. All residents escaped safely.

  • ‘Father of the Bride’

    PHOTOS BY GREG HOLMES Members of the Main Street Theatre Co. act out scenes from “Father of the Bride,” which opened last week at the Theatre at Garden Friends, 3018 Bordentown Ave., Parlin. Shows continue Oct. 3, 4, 10 and 11 at 8 p.m., and Oct. 5 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $12 to $18.…

  • Two plead guilty, get fines for graffiti series

    SAYREVILLE — Two Parlin men will have to pay thousands of dollars in fines for spray painting graffiti at various locations around the borough. Michael Witkowski, 23, of Farnham Square, and Stephen Mesa, 21, of Buttonwood Avenue, pleaded guilty to 11 counts of disorderly conduct and were each fined $7,113, in addition to $1,250 in…