Category: Suburban News

  • 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…

  • Main Street in Seussville

    PHOTOS BY GREG HOLMES Above: Main Street Theatre Co. cast members Nicole Vosk (from left), Daniela Bardesio, Frank Hughes, Joe McCabe, Jake Shatsky, Susan Corrado and Johnny Ragazzo will perform “Seussical the Musical” at 8 p.m. Aug. 15, 16, 22 and 23 and at 2 p.m. Aug. 17. The show incorporates the most famous characters…

  • DWI crackdown set for next two weeks

    E. Bruns., Old Bridge, Monroe step up patrols through Labor Day BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer East Brunswick, Monroe and Old Bridge are among the local towns whose police departments will step up their patrols over the coming two weeks to crack down on drunken driving. The police departments have received state grants that will…

  • A whale of a project

    Milltown taxidermist restores 73-year-old behemoth for museum BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer David B. Schwendeman works on the eye of a 32-foot shark whale during the restoration process. The specimen will be unveiled Saturday at New York’s Vanderbilt Museum. MILLTOWN — David B. Schwendeman recently found out that size does matter. The third-generation taxidermist restored…

  • Scout brings campers their own Olympics

    Sayreville teenager goes ‘above and beyond’ for Eagle project BY MARY ANNE ROSS Correspondent CHRIS KELLY staff Eric Kincaid (l), of Boy Scout Troop 97, talks with Eric Applegate, 15, during the Summer Olympics that Kincaid organized for his Eagle Scout project on July 29. Attendees of Sayreville’s BIC Summer Camp participated in various activities,…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff A.J. Angotti, 11, works the hula-hoop as he makes his way through an obstacle course during the Summer Olympics at the Sayreville BIC Summer Camp last week. Eric Kincaid, 17, organized the games for his Eagle Scout project. See story, page 33.