Category: Suburban News

  • Traffic laws we don’t know or simply ignore

    Passing on the right or hanging tassels from a rearview mirror can get you tickets in the Garden State BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer See related story, page 18 You see the flashing red lights in the rearview mirror and you don’t know why. You weren’t speeding, and you know that…

  • Polos, Pulomena begin new terms as freeholders

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer EDISON – John Pulomena and H. James Polos were sworn in as Middlesex County freeholders and David B. Crabiel resumed the position of board director for the 12th consecutive year during a reorganizational meeting held at the Middlesex County College Performing Arts Center on Friday. “I…

  • Weiss, Volkert move up to captain at OBPD

    Two others named lieutenants; 10 new officers join force BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer BY JESSICA SMITHStaff Writer OLD BRIDGE – Four veterans of the township police department have moved up in the ranks. Police Chief Tom Collow honored the officers, two of whom became captains, as they were sworn in to their new positions…

  • Woman seeks help so she can help poor kids

    Student spends breaks helping children in Central America BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer BY JESSICA SMITHStaff Writer Wendy Chan is pictured with an orphan named Gerson, who lives in Honduras with his younger brother and two older sisters. The older children take care of the younger children in the absence of their parents. OLD BRIDGE…

  • County looks at Old Bridge for next care center

    OLD BRIDGE – Middlesex County officials have two township sites in mind for the construction of a new long-term care center. The facility, designed to meet the growing demand for quality health-care facilities in the county, would be the county’s third nursing and rehabilitative care center. The other two are located at the historic Roosevelt…

  • Grieving father urges vigilance of drunken drivers

    Driver in crash that killed woman, 21, gets DWI, manslaughter BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer BY JESSICA SMITHStaff Writer Samar Seliem A driver who police say was heavily intoxicated struck and killed a 21-year-old Old Bridge woman Friday has pleaded not guilty to aggravated manslaughter. “A good female in a good university lost her life…

  • Council delays votes while mayor’s out sick

    Drwal, Makowski sworn in during annual reorganization meeting BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer Kathy Makowski SAYREVILLE – With Stanley Drwal and Kathy Makowski sworn in to office Monday, Democrats now maintain total control of the Borough Council. Thomas Pollando, voted by his colleagues to again serve as council president this year,…

  • No settlement in bitter fire district election

    Legitimacy of votes an issue in contest for fire commissioner seat BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer BY JESSICA SMITHStaff Writer OLD BRIDGE – An offer that would have settled a nearly year-old battle for a fire commissioner’s seat has been refused, leaving the matter up to the court. Eleanor Walker, one of two candidates for…

  • Sinking and leaking Lakeview to get fixups

    County funds work on foundation, roof of historic mansion BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer BY JESSICA SMITHStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Ron Becker, president of the Jamesburg Historical Society, shows the instability of the walls in the basement of Lakeview, the historic mansion on Buckelew Avenue. The Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders is granting…