Category: Suburban News

  • Six alumni make up first OBHS Wall of Fame group

    OLD BRIDGE – The school district is set to honor six people as the first class of inductees into the Old Bridge High School Wall of Fame. The inaugural group will be introduced at a ceremony scheduled for 7 p.m. June 5, in the auditorium at Old Bridge High School. The event will coincide with…

  • Bill would move school election, end budget vote

    BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer New JerseyAssembly Speaker Joseph Roberts (D-Camden) has introduced legislation that would eliminate the state’s April school election and move the election for school board members to the date of the November general election. The bill recently had a hearing before theAssembly Education Committee.Under the terms of the bill, residents of…

  • Honoring those who served

    PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Left to right: The Color Guard of Sayreville American Legion Post 211 fire three shots for freedom during the Memorial Day ceremony Monday. Members of the Sayreville PBA Local 98 lead a large procession of people down Sayreville’s main thoroughfares at the Memorial Day parade Monday.

  • Fundraisers

    May 29-June 21 • Book Sale, during regular library hours, at the Spotswood Public Library, 548 Main St. Hardcover books, paperbacks, children’s books, VHS videos, audiocassettes. Paperbacks, 50 cents each or three for $1; hardcovers, 75 cents and up; VHS videos, $1. All-You-Can-Carry-for-$5 Sale during last two days, June 20 and 21. All sales final.…

  • Commencement ceremonies

    JEFF GRANIT staff Krystle Geer, of Old Bridge, applauds with her classmates during opening remarks of the 41st annual commencement ceremonies at Middlesex County College May 22.

  • Group makes new Strides with therapeutic driving

    Horse-and-cart program dedicated to late NYC firefighter BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer MONROE – Horse-drawn carriages might seem a little old-fashioned to some, but to the Special Strides program at Congress Hill Farm, they are a useful innovation. Staff members at the nonprofit organization are raring to go for the Joseph Farrelly Therapeutic Driving Program,…

  • WWII nurse receives long-due recognition

    O.B. resident, 86, to be grand marshal on Memorial Day BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer Lenora Quackenbush waited 60 years to receive her military medals. On Monday, she will accept another form of recognition when she acts as grand marshal of Old Bridge’s Memorial Day parade in Laurence Harbor. “Quackenbush is a name that goes…

  • Board finds ways to cut $1M ordered by council

    Removes secretary, fields program but funds Wilson project BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer The Sayreville Board of Education accepted the more than $1 million in budget cuts ordered by the Borough Council, but made its own decisions about which items would go. Board members met the day after the council announced its recommended cuts last…

  • Crews begin removal of contaminated soil

    Routes will be built to ship materials from Horseshoe Road site BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer Work crews this month began a longawaited project at the Horseshoe Road Superfund site, the removal of onsite contamination. PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff Top to bottom: Workers excavate contaminated soil to be removed from the Horseshoe Road Superfund…