Category: Suburban News

  • Assaults reported outside Bordentown Ave. party

    BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer SAYREVILLE – Police from the borough as well as East Brunswick were dispatched to a violent scene involving more than a dozen people on William Street last week. When police arrived at 1:06 a.m. Nov. 11, there was no fight in progress, but officers found 13 people from various areas,…

  • Man charged with DWI after accidents

    BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer SAYREVILLE – Police arrested a Parlin man after he allegedly crashed his car and destroyed property on two county roads around 11 p.m. Nov. 13. Steven Baist, 24, was charged with driving while intoxicated after police located him at his parents’ house on Vincent Street following the accidents, according to…

  • Native American history needs retelling

    Thanksgiving portrays stereotypes that some find offensive BY LINDA DeNICOLA Correspondent November is American Indian Heritage Month and also the month when people across the country remember the Native Americans who are part of the Thanksgiving story. But some Native Americans are not happy about Thanksgiving because the stereotypes of their people are often caricatures…

  • New converter station operational in Sayreville

    Local officials hail project as economic boon to the borough BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer MICHAEL ACKER Edward M. Stern, president and CEO of Neptune Regional Transmission System LLC, stands behind the company’s new converter station and addresses borough residents and officials at the ribbon-cutting event for the facility that was held Nov. 1. Seated…

  • Scaled-back senior housing plan OK’d

    Kaplan Cos. plan includes 184 units in four buildings BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer Kaplan Cos. has the green light to move forward with a 184-unit age-restricted community at Towne Lake in Sayreville. The borough Planning Board approved the Highland Parkbased developer’s revised site plan, which was scaled down from a previous version that included…

  • Four hot dog carts taken from Mr. Dee’s

    BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer SAYREVILLE – Police are investigating the theft of four hot dog carts from a local vendor. The carts were stolen from the rear of Mr. Dee’s Hot Dogs, Johnson Lane, sometime between Oct. 18 and Nov. 3. The business, which is located near the intersection of Ernston Road and Bordentown…

  • Creating gourd art

    PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Top: Luke Lelinko (center) crafts a pair of swans while his nephew, Christopher, 8, and Samantha Kearney, 11, all of Old Bridge, paint gourds during the Nov. 4 gourdcrafting program at Cheesequake State Park. Right: Erin Mooneyham, 8, of Union Beach, uses a delicate touch to create a bumblebee.

  • Police seek man charged with sex assault on child

    BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer Luis Minguela SAYREVILLE – Authorities are looking for a borough man charged with sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl. The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office is searching for Luis Minguela, 35, whose last known address was on the 700 block of Downing Street in the Parlin section. The suspect is accused of…

  • Town may force fix-ups on blighted properties

    New law will help O.B. address problems with abandoned houses BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer OLD BRIDGE – Township officials aim to crack down on abandoned properties around town. A new ordinance will give the township more power over situations in which homeowners are keeping up with their taxes, but not keeping up with their…