Category: Suburban News

  • Center to assist American Indians statewide opens

    The New Jersey Native American Employment and Training Center recently opened its doors on Bayard Street in New Brunswick. The new program will offer a variety of employment services and supports to American Indians living in New Jersey. The center is funded through the Indian and Native American Workforce Act. Its goal is to provide…

  • Board learns it can’t prohibit billboards

    The roadside signs will likely be allowed in certain parts of town BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer SAYREVILLE – Like them or not, billboards could become a permitted use in town in order to avoid litigation. The borough does not have an ordinance that permits billboards to be posted, and those…

  • Walking for a cause

    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Second-graders Anabella Cacciato, Nicole O’Gormon and Jason Gianotto walk around Truman School in Sayreville Monday during the walkathon to raise funds for Autism Speaks.

  • Fund-raisers

    Oct. 26-31 + Pumpkin Patch, sponsored by Simpson United Methodist Church, noon to 8 p.m. Sundays-Fridays, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturdays, at the church, 2095 Route 516 at Owens Road, Old Bridge. All varieties of pumpkins; gourds; Indian corn; cornstalks; candy; baked goods; snacks and beverages. Children’s play area featuring a small “moonwalk,”…

  • Photo

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN staff Jimmy Perez, 3, and his sister Marissa, 6, of Carteret, stand beside “The King” tribute car at the classic and modified car show at the ShopRite parking lot in Sayreville Sunday. Proceeds from the event went to the DARE program and other nonprofit organizations in the borough.

  • Boro looks to excuse some code violators

    Mayor unsuccessful in getting moratorium on code enforcement BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer SAYREVILLE – A citation issued to a soldier in Iraq for an unregistered vehicle in the borough has sparked a debate over the town’s code enforcement standards. Republican Mayor Kennedy O’Brien issued an executive order at the Borough…

  • Autumn amble

    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Truman School kindergartners walk around the Sayreville school Monday during a walk-a-thon to raise money for the Autism Speaks organization.

  • Residents call curbing policy unfair, unsafe

    Township program only replaces curbs, doesn’t build them new BY MARLENE CANTY Staff Writer BY MARLENE CANTYStaff Writer OLD BRIDGE – To curb or not to curb. That is the question spawning an ongoing conflict among officials and residents as a months-old dispute about the parameters of a township curbing program went into overtime during…

  • Group wants 365 reasons to like NJ

    EAST BRUNSWICK – You may prefer the miles of white sandy beaches along the Jersey Shore or the mountainous region in the northwestern part of the state. Maybe you like the quaint eateries in the central part of the state. There may be another reason you enjoy calling New Jersey home. That reason could make…