Category: Suburban News
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CHRIS KELLY staff Monmouth University students Jared Mazur, of Sayreville, (from left) Christian Mambelli, of Sea Bright, and Eric Mikos, of Old Bridge, pedal into Lake Topanemus Park, Freehold, to help with the annual cleanup April 5. The trio, which rode from the campus in West Long Branch, are members of the new M.U. Cycling…
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Worker injured in machine accident
SAYREVILLE – A factory worker at a local steel mill suffered an injury while on the job last week. The Morgan First Aid Squad was dispatched to the scene of the Gerdau Ameristeel mill on North Crossman Road at 2:51 p.m. April 15. Robert Carey, 60, of Keansburg, was removing wire from a machine when…
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Martial arts family helps police with free training
Certified instructors offer quarterly seminars at Black Belt academies BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer Al ocal family is using its knowledge of martial arts to give back to the police who protect their communities. PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff Jack McInerney (center) demonstrates a detaining technique with Marlboro police officers Allan Bilinski (left) and Javier…
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Newspaper group takes home 30 awards in NJPA contest
Greater Media Newspapers received 30 awards from the New Jersey Press Association for excellence in writing, photography and advertising in the NJPA’s Better Newspaper Contest for 2007. Eric Sucar, “Reindeer,” Independent first place, Feature BobWaitt, advertising director for Greater Media Newspapers, said the Classified Department, and Production Department, which designs many of the ads, are…
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Families honor couple’s memory, one year later
Parents support bill, start scholarship fund in memory of victims BY MARY ANNE ROSS Correspondent Expressions of affection usually found in high school yearbooks are scrawled across two crosses that mark the East Brunswick site where Jon Mustafa, 18, and Lesley Carness, 16, died on April 8, 2007: ERIC SUCAR staff Terry Carness (left) and…
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Family Fun Night
Third-grader Rebecca Lisi and mom Annmarie join hands for a skate at the Family Fun Night for Old Bridge’s Southwood Elementary School April 3 at United Skates of America in Woodbridge. Below: First-grader Grace Bucca (from left), third-grader Emma Tilley, thirdgrade teacher Tina Prachar and third-grader Victoria Failla enjoy a skate.
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Comedy club event set to benefit E. Bruns. man, 18
EAST BRUNSWICK – A series of fundraisers to help Tommie Lukowski, an 18-year-old township resident recovering from cancer treatments, will begin with an April 27 comedy show at the Stress Factory in New Brunswick. Those interested in obtaining more information about the fundraising events should call (732) 238-9252.Aphone number provided in a story last week…
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ERIC SUCAR staff Marlboro Police Lt. Pete Pezzullo plays the role of a victim during a defense tactics course Friday at the Old Bridge Black Belt Academy on Route 516. The facility’s certified instructors hold quarterly seminars for officers from Old Bridge, Sayreville and other towns to work on their defensive techniques.
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Museum improvements stress interactivity, community
Plans for Menlo Park Museum expansion presented to residents BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer Plans for a vast expansion to the Menlo Park Museum in Edison, which is dedicated to the life and work of famed inventor and township namesake Thomas Alva Edison, were introduced to the public during an April 3 meeting at the…
