Category: Suburban News
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OBPD gets grant money to upgrade 911 system
BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer Pictured in the current Old Bridge 911 dispatch center, where technology will soon be replaced, are 911 Coordinator Jeanette Nielsen (seated), Police Chief Thomas Collow (standing, from left), Capt. Robert Weiss, Mayor James T. Phillips and Bonnie Heug of the New Jersey Office of Emergency Technology. OLD BRIDGE – Township…
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Self-guided nature trail opens at local preserve
BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff Above: Rick Lear, naturalist with the Middlesex County Parks and Recreation Department, gives dignitaries a tour of the new nature trail at John A. Phillips Nature Preserve in Old Bridge Tuesday. The halfmile trail was built by the county’s Conservation Corps. At right: Old Bridge…
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Dog days of summer yield new friendships
Sayreville park became the place to be on Wed. nights BY MARY ANNE ROSS Correspondent PHOTOS BY ANDREW MILLER staff Sammy (l), a golden retriever, and Kooper, a yellow Lab, begrudgingly share a stick in the dog park at the Julian L. Capik Nature Preserve Sept. 26. SAYREVILLE – Dogs aren’t the only ones socializing…
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Turning the tide at Cliffwood Beach
Aberdeen hopes to upgrade and beautify beachfront, seawall BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer Fifty years after it was destroyed in a hurricane, the boardwalk at Cliffwood Beach is poised for a rebound. Plans call for the rough terrain of Cliffwood Beach’s seawall to be smoothed over. On Sept. 18, Aberdeen unveiled design plans for…
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ATV driver gets DWI, assault with auto charges
BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer OLD BRIDGE – Police say a Manalapan man was intoxicated when his four-wheel allterrain vehicle (ATV) struck and injured three children. Bryan L. Wrobel, 24, was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated and assault with an automobile following the incident in the rear parking lot of Raceway Park, Pension…
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Boro recognizes old Reading Room site
Was used as the town’s unofficial library, and for graduations BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer Now the site of a deli and residential apartments, few may have realized that the building at 365 Main St. is one of Sayreville’s most significant historic landmarks. SCOTT FRIEDMAN Anna Aschkenes, of the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission,…
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Cty. warms up to solar energy
Technology expected to cut building’s power costs by 40% BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer The sun peeks through a solar panel grid as Middlesex County officials take a closer look at the county’s first large-scale solar power project, which will reduce energy costs at the Rutgers Cooperative Extension Services building at Davidson’s Mill Pond Park…
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Man honored for helping woman in pit bull attack
Joseph Hayes cited as hero for efforts to help neighbor BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer MICHAEL ACKER Cheryl Napolitano applauds as Joseph Hayes is presented with a proclamation from Mayor Kennedy O’Brien during Monday’s Borough Council meeting. SAYREVILLE – Borough officials and police on Monday honored a resident who came to the aid of a…
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Community stands by its man in time of need
Oct. 20 dinner-dance to benefit Old Bridge’s Bob Pate and family BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer Many friends and neighbors are rallying support for Old Bridge couple Bob and Stephanie Pate and their family, who will be the beneficiaries of an Oct. 20 event at the Friendly Sons of the Shillelagh, Oak Street. OLD BRIDGE…
