Category: Suburban News
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Town takes ‘first step’ on Mannino, Y project
BY KRISTIN BOYD Correspondent BY KRISTIN BOYDCorrespondent OLD BRIDGE – The public-private partnership between the township and the Western Monmouth County YMCA is still on track, a year after the initial deal with the Red Bank-based Community YMCA fell through. The Planning Board will discuss Western Monmouth’s application to build the Old Bridge YMCA branch…
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Mayor’s last attempt to stay on SERA fails
BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer SAYREVILLE – Democrats on the Borough Council again refused to reappoint Republican Mayor Kennedy O’Brien to the borough’s redevelopment committee Monday. The council declined to renew O’Brien’s status as a member of the Sayreville Economic Redevelopment Agency (SERA), on which he’s served since becoming mayor seven…
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Recount keeps margin at 1 for commish post
BY KRISTIN BOYD Correspondent BY KRISTIN BOYDCorrespondent OLD BRIDGE – Eleanor Walker continues to edge out Kevin Kingston in the heated race for the remaining commissioner’s seat in Fire District 2, according to the results of a recount held last week. The recount shows Walker with 441 votes and Kingston with 440 votes – the…
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Petition falls short of stopping $4M bond
Residents say voters circumvented in funding of school repairs BY KRISTIN BOYD Correspondent BY KRISTIN BOYDCorrespondent A petition to stop the Old Bridge Township Coun-cil from bonding $4 million for the Board of Education was declared “deficient and invalid” Monday because it contained less than a third of the required signatures. Township Clerk Rose-Marie Saracino…
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Overpopulation spurs ‘Meet the Mutts’ event
Sayreville shelter now at full capacity with 135 cats, 25 dogs BY MARLENE CANTY Staff Writer BY MARLENE CANTYStaff Writer Volunteer manager and dog trainer Cathy DiMatteo, of Milltown, throws a tennis ball for Stormy, a shelter dog from the Sayreville Pet Adoption Center. The Sayreville Pet Adoption Center is on a mission. It may…
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Man’s condition stable after accident at Routes 9 and 34
BY MARLENE CANTY Staff Writer BY MARLENE CANTYStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Emergency service personnel look over the scene of an accident involving two trucks Friday in Old Bridge. OLD BRIDGE – A Brick man became pinned under a dump truck Friday after the truck rear-ended a tractor-trailer on Route 9. Juan Sepulveda, 66, a…
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Partnership proposed to restore watershed
Health of Matawan lakes, creek seen as key to Bayshore ecosystem BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer MATAWAN – Assemblywoman Amy Handlin has proposed a joint venture between Matawan Borough and Monmouth University’s Urban Coast Institute to study and create a restoration plan for the Matawan Creek watershed, which flows into the…
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Chief seeks to improve police hiring procedures
Changes may be made to increase diversity, save on academy costs BY KRISTIN BOYD Correspondent BY KRISTIN BOYDCorrespondent OLD BRIDGE – Preliminary talks are under way between Police Chief Thomas Collow and township officials to update hiring procedures before the list of eligible police candidates expires in March. Collow submitted his hiring suggestions to Mayor…
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Man described as ‘hero’ after catching suspect
BY MARLENE CANTY Staff Writer BY MARLENE CANTYStaff Writer Pedro Cruz OLD BRIDGE – An old-fashioned police chase conducted by a private citizen with a baseball bat resulted in a broken leg, apprehension and eventual arrest of a burglary suspect in a $10,000 crime spree, which police said involved ransacking three homes Aug. 13. George…
