Category: Suburban News

  • The long hot summer

    While you dig the hole to find a home for your latest native plant, you can run the risk of adding another crick to your lower back. Watch how you handle your tools, be aware of your stance when digging, lift properly, and don’t even attempt to move a 100-pound boulder without assistance. And once…

  • Husband-wife team set for night of Italian opera

    BY KRISTINE TANGEL Correspondent Annamaria Stefanelli MONROE — Soprano Annamaria Stefanelli and her husband, tenor Rory Angelicola, will perform “A Sunday of Italian Opera” on Sunday at Villa Laura Ristorante, Spotswood-Englishtown Road. “It’s to recreate the excitement and passion of the opera,” Angelicola said. Accompanied by pianist James Lubrano, the pair will perform a variety…

  • Fun in the sun

    Above: Rose Marie Tsamas (from left), 15, Danielle Rossi, 16, Andrea Poppiti, 16, and Katie Sullivan, 16, all of Old Bridge, compete in the potatosack race during Salt Water Day, held Saturday at the Laurence Harbor beachfront. Left: Brielle Schultz, 10, of the Laurence Harbor section, goes for a splash in the dunking booth. Below:…

  • Among the best

    Old Bridge High School graduate Romina Nadin accepts a certificate from Councilman Pat Gillespie, honoring her as one of the top 10 in the 2008 class. Nadin, 10th in her class, will attend McGill University in Montreal. The other nine students honored by Mayor Jim Phillips and the council, in descending order, are Alexandra Shevchuk,…

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    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Christopher Henyecv, 11, of the Laurence Harbor section of Old Bridge, makes his way to the peak of the rock wall during the annual Salt Water Day, held on the beach under sunny skies Saturday.

  • O.B. seeks asking prices on four parcels

    Land along Rt. 516, Rt. 18 being sought for open space BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer Old Bridge officials are working to cover ground in a quest to acquire and preserve four parcels of open space. Recommended to Mayor Jim Phillips by the Old Bridge Open Space Committee for acquisition, the properties are undeveloped and…

  • Town has new weapon in battle against graffiti

    BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY staff The Farrow System was purchased to remove grafitti like this, found on a concrete wall alongside Bordentown Avenue. Officials bought the $46,000 device, with help from a federal grant, in order to clean the surface of defaced properties and restore them to their original condition.…

  • Two future leaders star at national competition

    BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer Zainab Khan (l) and Dedeepya Konuthula, entering their senior and junior years at Old Bridge High School, respectively, show their awards from this summer’s national Future Business Leaders of America competition. OBHS students get 2nd-, 8th-place honors at FBLA event in Atlanta   OLD BRIDGE — Two local teenagers have…

  • Budget vote comes as surprise to some

    Council puts off adoption of tab with $150 avg. tax hike BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer SAYREVILLE — A municipal budget amendment that would have reduced the tax rate hike from 12.8 cents to 10.4 cents was shot down at last week’s Borough Council meeting. The amendment was proposed after the borough found out it…