Category: Suburban News

  • Hiroshima survivors detail war-time reality

    Speaker tells of bomb’s impact on family before Monroe audience BY CHRISTINE GRIMALDI Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE GRIMALDIStaff Writer Above: Yoshio Sato, a member of the Kanagawa A-Bomb Sufferers Association, shares a firsthand account of the Hiroshima attack to a meeting of the Monroe Township Chapter of the National Coalition for Peace Action Monday. Irene…

  • On Campus

    Robert Cotugno, son of Donna and Richard Cotugno of Old Bridge, was named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at Kean University College of Natural, Applied and Health Sciences, Union. Justin J. Algarin of Old Bridge was named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Conn., where he…

  • Helping out

    Justine Borzumato and Sean Meehan, both 15-year-old residents of Old Bridge, deliver boxes of games and toys to the children’s ward at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick last Thursday. The students at Metuchen’s Bishop George Ahr and Lincroft’s Christian Brothers Academy, respectively, spent part of their summer running a toy drive with…

  • Resident seeks to stop $4M bond for repairs

    BY KRISTIN BOYD Correspondent BY KRISTIN BOYDCorrespondent OLD BRIDGE – Resident Linda Seiler began circulating a petition this week to stop the Township Council from bonding $4 million for the Board of Education to make repairs and upgrades at the district’s 16 schools. The council voted 6-3 last month in support of a bond ordinance…

  • Quick-hit burglar suspects steal from businesses

    BY MARLENE CANTY Staff Writer BY MARLENE CANTYStaff Writer OLD BRIDGE – Two successful burglaries and a bungled attempt at a third at the Town Square mall on Matawan Road resulted in the combined loss of over $2,600 in cash Monday. Dunkin’ Donuts and Bagel Mania were both forcibly entered during the early morning hours,…

  • Housing for disabled could open this fall

    BY KRISTIN BOYD Correspondent BY KRISTIN BOYDCorrespondent MICHAEL ACKER Work is ongoing to complete the Chuck Costello Housing Complex, pictured here in July. The Old Bridge facility will provide affordable housing to independently disabled residents of Middlesex County. OLD BRIDGE – Construction of the Chuck Costello Housing Complex is a month ahead of schedule due…

  • For the Record

    Due to misinformation provided to the Suburban, an Aug. 3 story titled “Two arrested after gas station hold-up” incorrectly named Lighting for Less as the location where police found suspects Steven Pietro, 21, and Victor Joseph Limongello, 33, both of Matawan. The suspects were actually located in a storage area of the Marketplace shopping center,…

  • Dems deny mayor’s position on SERA

    Mayor describes council move as posturing for ’07 election BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer Kennedy O’Brien After years of guiding Sayreville’s redevelopment agency, Mayor Kennedy O’Brien this week found himself unable to renew his own status as a member. Democrats on the Borough Council on Monday blocked the Republican mayor’s reappointment…

  • Photo

    SCOTT PILLING staff Students in the Summer Enrichment Program at Samsel Upper Elementary School in Sayreville perform “You’re a Grand Ol’ Flag” during the Aug. 2 New Jersey Heroes event. See story, page 41.