Category: Suburban News

  • Mayor’s Trophy Game

    CHRIS KELLY staff The Sayreville Leprechauns’ Keith Scott tries to evade the Morgan-Parlin Panthers’ Sustyn Pearce during the Mayor’s Trophy Game Sunday at South Amboy Waterfront Park. The various teams with the two Pop Warner clubs played throughout the day.

  • Belford couple survives plane crash in Old Bridge

    BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer OLD BRIDGE – A couple flying home from a vacation survived a plane crash at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park on Sunday. Brian Compton, 56, and his wife, Antoinette Rinella, 55, both of Belford, arrived in the area of Old Bridge Airport from their vacation in…

  • State open-space funding question will go to voters

    Environmental groups will lobby hard for GSPT renewal in months ahead BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer New Jersey voters will determine in November whether to issue $200 million in bonds to fund the state’s Garden State Preservation Trust (GSPT) for one more year. Civic groups applauded the bill’s passage, but said…

  • Photo

    JEFF GRANIT staff Rich Toogood, an environmental field scientist with Severn Trent Labs, Edison, takes a sample of dust material from the front windowsill of a home on Modzelewski Terrace, Sayreville. Homes in close proximity to the Gerdau Ameristeel mill were tested last week for dust emissions.

  • Busy hands

    ERIC SUCAR staff A plethora of youthful hands stay busy during the “Be Puzzled” program Aug. 6 at the Old Bridge Public Library.

  • ‘Black dust’ samples taken from residences

    Steel mill reps meet with residents as labs test material BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff Rich Toogood, an environmental field scientist from Severn Trent Labs, Edison, secures a swab of dust material taken from the windowsill of a home on Modzelewski Terrace in Sayreville. Below: Andrew…

  • GOP: Stop signs went up without approval

    Republicans also say boro stage was lent out without proper OK BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer “Until approvals are done and an ordinance is passed, it’s the borough’s responsibility in case there is some problem there.” – Ronald Green Republican Party chairman SAYREVILLE – Republicans are charging that in two recent…

  • Colosseum shut down due to repeated fights

    Boro action comes after police respond to more violence at club BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer Another night of fighting and alleged gunfire at the Sayreville Colosseum nightclub has prompted the borough to revoke its liquor license. Early Monday morning, just eight days after police responded to fighting at the Routes…

  • Art off the wall (& out of the saloon)

    BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer “Uncle Sam” An exhibition opening at the Art Alliance of Monmouth County in Red Bank today by Wayne Turback is his first since selling the South Amboy bar where for many years he had a venue for his paintings and assemblages. “The bar was my gallery…