Category: Suburban News

  • Local man charged with running investor scheme

    Allegedly defrauded real estate investors by nearly $55 million BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer OLD BRIDGE- FBI agents andManalapan police arrested an Old Bridge man alleged to have swindled investors and mortgage lenders out of about $75 million. Wayne Puff, 60, founder and former president of N.J. Affordable Homes (NJAH) Corp., was arrested June 10…

  • Greater Media’s CEO stresses sense of community in media, banking

    BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer Members of the New Jersey League of Community Bankers were treated to a presentation on the benefits and future of the radio market by Peter Smyth, president and chief executive officer of Greater Media Inc. Peter Smyth, president and CEO of Greater Media Inc., speaks at the annual marketing conference…

  • Volunteer firefighter charged with fuel theft

    Police: He transported boro fuel in fire dept. van to his personal truck BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer SAYREVILLE – Borough Police Sgt. Robert Lasko knew something was wrong when he saw a Sayreville Fire Department van in use at 12:23 a.m. last week. Lasko, also a member of the fire department, conducted a motor…

  • Cops, firefighters, EMS go to bat for local family

    BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – The annual Guns & Hoses charity softball game has helped a different township family pay bills related to a sick child in each of the past four years. If there was ever a local family in need of such help, it is this year’s beneficiary. The June…

  • Fly like an eagle

    PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY staff A plane takes flight at Old Bridge Airport Saturday during the Experimental Aircraft Association’s Young Eagles Flight Rally. Old Bridge’s Danielle Barbieri, 13, checks out the scene as pilot Art Templeton, of Toms River, gets ready to take to the skies. The event was sponsored by the Experimental Aircraft Association…

  • Family, friends keep teen’s memory alive

    Foundation in memory of MTHS senior will help teenagers with cancer BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer Daniel Lorenzo MONROE – Countless students and school employees at the high school came together June 13 to celebrate the life of Daniel Lorenzo, and to make sure his legacy lives on. “My son fought hard to beat his…

  • Ice cold lemonade here

    Above: Youth stand near the beverages at “Alex’s Lemonade Stand” at the home of Doreen Herrick, where funds were raised for childhood cancer research Saturday. The children are Julianne Cornell, 13 (top left); Ema Herrick, 8 (bottom left); Sarina Dinardo, 13 top center}; Benjamin Herrick, 5 (bottom center); and Xavier Pinter, 13 (right). Right: Volunteers…

  • Woman fights depression and works to help others

    BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer For some college students, making it to graduation seems like an arduous, uphill climb. For recent Rutgers University graduate Stacy Hollingsworth, it felt like an impossible dream. Stacy Hollingsworth The 24-year-old township native was suffering in silence from a major depressive disorder when she started her college education. By the…

  • Board rejects 200-home plan for the third time

    Officials cite easements, technical review as reasons BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer SAYREVILLE- Aplan to develop 207 homes on 100 acres of vacant land off Main Street was denied for the third time recently. Fulton’s Landing Inc., the applicant, sued the borough after the Planning Board denied the building application for being incomplete. The developer…