Category: Suburban News

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    Old Bridge police released these surveillance camera photos of a suspect robbing the Amboy National Bank at Route 35 and Laurence Parkway in the township’s Laurence Harbor section. The robbery took place in the late afternoon on Friday. Police could not be reached for further details.

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Bryan Camacho, a U.S. Army specialist and veteran of the war in Iraq, gets a heartfelt welcome from students at the Miller School in Old Bridge during his visit there Friday. Camacho, injured from a roadside bomb explosion during his third tour of duty in December, is an Old Bridge native and…

  • 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…

  • Police charge a second suspect in ’07 murder

    Male was a minor at time of shooting at Winding Wood SAYREVILLE – A second suspect has been charged in the June 2007 shooting death of an Old Bridge man, which took place outside a borough apartment complex. The suspect, a juvenile at the time of the murder, was not identified in a press release…

  • Memorial Day parades, services set for Monday

    Jamesburg’s annual procession steeped in tradition When the Jamesburg-Monroe- Helmetta Memorial Day Parade steps off at 10 a.m. Monday from Veterans’Memorial Park in Jamesburg, it will be doing so for the 125th time. The town’s first Memorial Day Parade took place May 30, 1883, when the members of Sumner Post 74, Grand Army of the…

  • Memorial garden honors beloved police dispatcher

    BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer OLD BRIDGE- One year after a police dispatcher’s death, police officials and others came together to honor the memory of someone they held dear, and to create a place to keep her memory alive. Libby Conover Flynn, a 17-year veteran of the township police department as a dispatcher and 911…

  • Police make arrests after late-night visit to gazebo

    BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer SAYREVILLE – Police made two arrests related to possession of a .22-caliber handgun earlier this month. MarcusA. Roper, 19, of Sayreville, and Angel Valentin, 19, of Perth Amboy, were both charged with possession of a defaced firearm and possession of a handgun without a permit. Police also cited Timothy Pinto,…