Category: Suburban News
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Debate on quality of water resurfaces
Coalition says boro’s testing for PFOA levels in water was flawed BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer A month after Sayreville officials announced there was a nondetectable level of a potential carcinogen in local drinking water, a coalition of environmental and labor groups criticized that finding in a press conference Monday. The…
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Rising administrators leave and come back
Teachers head to other districts to gain vice principal experience BY MARLENE CANTY Staff Writer BY MARLENE CANTYStaff Writer Whoever said “you can never go home again” didn’t know Martha Simon and Cecilia Skove. After collectively almost two decades in elementary education, both women have become principals in the Old Bridge School District, where they…
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Man, 52, drowns while swimming in So. River
BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer BY JESSICA SMITHStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – An Old Bridge man drowned Monday while swimming in the South River, the second such fatality this summer in that waterway. James Mallon, 52, had been visiting friends at their River Road home when he went for a swim around 2 p.m. A…
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Seafood fest set for fifth year on the bay
BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer SAYREVILLE – Thousands of people are expected to fill their bellies while taking in some live music Sunday during the fifth annual Raritan Bay Seafood Festival. All types of vendors, entertainment and rides can be found at Raritan Bay Waterfront Park Sunday for the festival, which…
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OBHS senior killed in Route 34 accident
OLD BRIDGE – A 17-year-old township girl was killed Tuesday, just two days before she was to start her senior year in high school, when her car was struck by a tractor-trailer on Route 34. Ashley Barton, a peer leader at Old Bridge High School, was on her way home from the school at the…
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Communities reflect on 9/11 anniversary
Several towns in Middlesex County sponsoring events BY MARLENE CANTY Staff Writer BY MARLENE CANTYStaff Writer As the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks approaches, a host of services ranging from candlelight and prayer vigils to the dedication of some newly erected monuments are planned locally. Sayreville, which has observed the remembrance with…
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SCOTT PILLING staff Jose Centeno (l) and his brother, Mike, walk to school with their kids, Emily, Chelsea and Gabrielle, for the first day yesterday morning at Old Bridge’s McDivitt School.
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Walk-a-thon to aid boarder home mission
Advocate hopes to provide a home for discarded babies BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer SAYREVILLE – Already this year, eight New Jersey children have been killed by family members, some of them newborn infants. It is such statistics that have prompted 45-year-old Piscataway resident Sandra McKoy to work on creating a…
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Route 35 gas station robbed by lone gunman
BY MARLENE CANTY Staff Writer BY MARLENE CANTYStaff Writer OLD BRIDGE – A man came face to face with cocked steel last week when he was robbed at gunpoint of $191 in cash by a masked man dressed all in black at a Route 35 gas station, according to police reports. The owner of the…
