Category: Suburban News

  • Celebrating Africa

    PHOTOSBY CHRIS KELLY staff Old Bridge’s Thomas Preteroti, 15, performs African music with the school band at St. Thomas the Apostle in Old Bridge Monday during a colloquium on Africa. A student-built pyramid is one of many projects displayed during the event.

  • Talent time

    PHOTOS BY SCOTT PILLING staff Above: Steven Hernandez and Sameen Jafri, of Memorial Elementary School, Old Bridge, give their performance art routine during the fifth-grade dance and gymnastics show Friday. Below: Dante Whipple wheels his way around.

  • Despite options, board recognizes two holidays

    Schools will remain closed on Veterans Day and Memorial Day BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer SAYREVILLE – Students will continue to observe Memorial Day and Veterans Day with a day off from school thanks to school officials’ latest decision. In response to state legislation that lifts the mandatory commemoration of Veterans…

  • Eggs-ellent

    PHOTOSBY DENNIS SYMONS JR. Top: Katie Rose picks up an Easter egg during an egg hunt Saturday outside the Madison Park Elementary School, Old Bridge. ERA Jersey Homes agent Maryann Kelly sponsored the event for the Madison Park Homeowners’ Association. Above: Alyssa Perez pauses during the egg hunt to show her findings.

  • Five arrested in alleged drug distribution rings

    SAYREVILLE – – Two unrelated narcotics investigations led to the arrests of five suspects recently and the recovery of some large quantities of heroin and cocaine. The two sets of arrests were the result of investigations conducted by both the Sayreville and Old Bridge police narcotics bureaus, according to Sayreville Police Chief John Garbowski. Police…

  • Rent hike thrown out, at least until August

    O.B. helps senior community avoid 2nd increase in 7 months BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer Residents of Maher Manor in Old Bridge can rest at ease now that a proposed 5 percent rent increase has been quashed. After the tenants’ association at the state-subsidized senior housing development on Route 18 brought their concerns to township…

  • Dems tap Pollando to run for mayor

    Thomas Pollando Buchanan, Misiewicz get party nomination for Boro Council seats BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer Sayreville Borough Council President Thomas Pollando is expected to represent the Democrats this year in a bid to win the mayor’s seat from Republican incumbent Kennedy O’Brien. Pollando was endorsed by the Sayreville Democratic Party, along with two Borough…

  • Got milk?

    SCOTT PILLING staff Monica Rolin, 5, of Old Bridge, gets a firsthand lesson in milking a goat during a tour of the Cook College farms in North Brunswick Saturday.

  • Amy Rosen

    Around Town Being kind is not a major operation I’ve always secretly wanted to be a singer, but don’t have the voice to follow through. I’m told I recently had my five minutes of fame when I got to sing in front of others, but just my luck, I remember none of it. I was…