Category: Suburban News
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Shall we dance?
PHOTOS BY MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Left, Old Bridge High School senior Sarah Meliani dances with 90-year-old Frank Barbato during Monday’s senior citizen dance in the high school cafeteria. Many of the students who participated are enrolled in the school’s ballroom dancing class. Above, Nicholas Franciosa and Old Bridge High School cheerleader Amanda Siecinsti participate in…
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MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Old Bridge High School cheerleaders get a lesson on how to boogie, courtesy of John Chimienti during a senior citizens’ dance held at the school Monday afternoon. Members of the high school’s senior class planned the event after meeting with senior citizens at the Old Bridge Office on Aging.
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Drugs, speeding wreak havoc in neighborhood
Officials look to crack down on criminal activity in Southwood BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer BY JESSICA SMITHStaff Writer Residents of the Southwood development in Old Bridge are fed up, and they are not going to take it anymore. A group of about 40 showed up for Monday night’s Township Council meeting to express their…
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Mayor seeks new law to curb violence at clubs
O’Brien: Sayreville’s no longer a place for clubgoers ‘to go crazy’ BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer A three strikes policy is being considered at Sayreville Borough Hall as the result of recent violence and crowd-control issues reported at the Colosseum nightclub. Mayor Kennedy O’Brien shared his idea for a new policy…
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Monday Morning Advocacy Network panel to meet on Feb. 5
The Monday Morning Advocacy Network of Middlesex County will hold its first meeting of the new year from 1-3 p.m. on Feb. 5 at the East Brunswick Public Library, 2 Jean Walling Civic Center. Special guests will be Luke Koppisch, coordinator, Monday Morning Project, and Dennie Todd, coordinator, Partners In Policymaking (PIP), New Jersey Council…
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Board denies plan for 207 homes … again
Builder expected to again take legal action against town BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer Dozens of Sayreville residents listen last week as Fulton’s Landing attorney Thomas Carroll addresses the Planning Board at Borough Hall. Sayreville residents applauded the Planning Board last week as it voted against a developer’s plan to build…
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Local mayors say they’ll officiate civil unions
Officials must choose: Do straight and gay ceremonies, or do none BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer FILE PHOTO South Brunswick Mayor Frank Gambatese has said he will delegate officiation of civil unions to the deputy mayor, an arrangement one expert says may not be legal under the new law. Middlesex County…
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To taxman, civil unions end at the New Jersey border
Same-sex couples may not receive the same rights at federal level BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer While the civil union bill has given same-sex couples a plethora of additional rights and responsibilities, its effects stop short at the federal level, according to legal and financial experts. Felice T. Londa, an attorney…
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Teen aims to use hi-tech TVs to help sick children
PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT Danielle Rosenthal, 15, of Freehold Township, displays her handmade crystal bracelets. The teen crafts jewelry to raise money to provide televisions for children hospitalized at Shriners Hospitals for Children in Philadelphia. 15-year-old over halfway to goal of $34,000 to equip Shriners Hospitals in Phila. BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer Danielle…
