Category: Suburban News
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SERA votes to end lawsuit against boro
Two attorneys’ bills in the litigation amount to $62,000 BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer SAYREVILLE – The borough’s new-look redevelopment agency last week voted for a settlement that would drop its legal action against the town it serves. The lawsuit, filed last spring when Republican Mayor Kennedy O’Brien still sat on…
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Junior Police Academy
At left, Alan Hanrahan, 16, does crunches during the physical fitness portion of the Summer Youth Police Academy last week. Students in last week’s session engaged in varying activities each day, including a DWI-simulation segment and a fingerprinting demonstration. Above, Lt. Robert Weiss demonstrates the proper way to salute. PHOTOSBY CHRIS KELLY staff
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Boro near completion on Sept. 11 memorial
Monument has cost Sayreville $255K, will be dedicated on Sept. 9 BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer JEFF GRANIT staff Sayreville police Detective Ken Kelly, who heads the borough’s 9/11 Memorial Committee, shows the nearly completed memorial, which also includes two granite towers and a marble stone with the names of Sayreville’s…
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Athletic fields policy ‘gives all a fair shot’
Council measure was focus of lawsuit, court injunction BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer SAYREVILLE – It’s official. Athletic organizations that are composed of a majority of borough residents will now get priority use of borough fields. Democrats on the Borough Council voted unanimously to approve the controversial athletic fields ordinance at…
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Commerce Bank robbed
BY MARLENE CANTY Staff Writer BY MARLENE CANTYStaff Writer OLD BRIDGE – Police are searching for a man who robbed the Commerce Bank last week and then fled on foot. The heist took place around noon Aug. 22 at the bank branch located on Route 516. Police declined to give details of how the robbery…
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Police find guns, ammo, marijuana at boro home
BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer SAYREVILLE – Police arrested a 36-year-old borough man on weapons possession and marijuana charges last week. Richard Prusarcyzk, a lifelong resident of Sayreville, turned himself in to authorities Aug. 22, after an investigation led police to execute a search warrant at his Albert Street home Aug.…
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Suspects use deception tactics in burglaries
BY MARLENE CANTY Staff Writer BY MARLENE CANTYStaff Writer OLD BRIDGE – Four “distraction” burglaries that resulted in losses of jewelry and property totaling upward of $1,600 were reported in the township last weekend. The burglaries may be part of a larger, more disturbing pattern targeting New Jersey seniors, according to Old Bridge Police Detective…
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Police name suspects in Sayreville shooting
BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer SAYREVILLE – Authorities released the names of two men suspected of being involved in the shooting of four people outside a borough mall Saturday. The shooting took place at the Suburban Mall, Ernston Road, around 4 a.m., according to police. The four victims told police they…
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Town, family celebrate start of Mannino Park
Ground is broken on future site of sports fields, Y, amphitheater BY MARLENE CANTY Staff Writer BY MARLENE CANTYStaff Writer Peter A. Mannino Calling it a “wonderful testament to my father as well as to the town and people of Old Bridge for seeing it through,” Charles Mannino was among the many on hand to…
