Category: Suburban News

  • 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…

  • School nurse honored for going above the call

    Kenny ‘brings out the best’ in students, staff at Truman BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer ERIC SUCAR staff School nurse Charlene Kenny checks third-grader Melanie Bisaha’s tonsils recently at the Harry S. Truman School in Parlin. Kenny was honored as Teacher of the Year for her work as a school nurse and a health educator.…

  • Milltown FD golf event honors NYC firefighter

    Benefits charity while celebrating memory of fireman lost on 9/11 BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer Charles Garbarini MILLTOWN – Though Charles Garbarini was someone borough firefighters never met, he is someone they will never forget. The lieutenant with the New York City Fire Department perished in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, but his memory burns…

  • Students show character and get ‘A Day of Play’

    Sandburg pupils share time with kids at Camp ROBIN BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer Jared and Mohamed, sixth-graders at Carl Sandburg Middle School, Old Bridge, discuss basketball fundamentals with Billy, a student at Camp ROBIN, during “A Day of Play” in Geick Park Saturday. The daylong event was the culminating activity for a group of…

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    STEVEN M. BARON Sixth-graders from Carl Sandburg Middle School work on basketball techniques with Bruno, a student at Camp ROBIN, at the camp headquarters in Geick Park, Old Bridge, on Saturday. The event, “A Day of Play,” was the culminating activity for a group of sixth-graders after a school year of character education lessons at…

  • Boro shaves $1M off rejected school budget

    Board concerned about suggested cuts to capital projects BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer Sayreville’s mayor and council ordered more than $1 million in cuts to the Board of Education’s rejected budget on Monday. The reductions came after the borough worked with an auditor on the 2008-09 school budget, which went down in the April 15…

  • Board denies Hercules’ plans to subdivide, sell

    Company says it will consider legal action against boro BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer The Sayreville Planning Board has rejected Hercules Inc.’s plans to subdivide its 500-plus-acre property and sell more than half of it. Board members, citing concerns with on-site contamination, voted 5-2 to deny the application of the Wilmington, Del.-based company during a…

  • School spirit

    Clockwise from top left: Dean Fazzolari shows his school spirit with his voice during the recent Battle of the Classes, two days of events and activities that allow students to demonstrate their skills and teamwork. Rohit Dayal, a senior, does battle for his class in one of themany diverse actitivities. Members of the junior class,…

  • O.B.’s handling of sign law described as unfair

    Resident: Town enforced sign law differently for town, school elections BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer OLD BRIDGE – Concerns about inequity and ambiguity have prompted township officials to review the town’s sign ordinance. Councilman Richard Greene spearheaded the effort to have a committee formed to look at revamping the local ordinance. “I think, overall, the…