Category: Suburban News
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Officials quell rumors about animal shelter
Mayor says town is exploring options to improve kennel BY KRISTIN BOYD Correspondent BY KRISTIN BOYDCorrespondent OLD BRIDGE – Township Business Administrator Michael Jacobs is learning how fast rumors spread. For the past two weeks, many animal lovers have been buzzing about Sayreville possibly taking over Old Bridge’s “no-kill” animal shelter. And in just days,…
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Sayreville woman takes on fiction in second book
BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer Ruth Manieri SAYREVILLE — A Main Street woman has begun a new chapter in her career. Ruth A. Manieri, 63, the author of the poetry-meets-dieting book, “Pounding Down … One Day at a Time,” has ventured into the world of adventure with her new novel, “The…
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Water view
JEFF GRANIT staff Ayesha Rehman and Tim Hussain, of Sayreville, take pictures of their daughter, Emaan Rehman, 10 months, in a scenic section of Sayreville’s Kennedy Park July 13.
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Council doesn’t want to fund school buses
Officials fear loss of state aid if town pays for courtesy busing BY CHRISTINE GRIMALDI Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE GRIMALDIStaff Writer SAYREVILLE – Borough officials decided Monday that the borough would lose the numbers game if they funded courtesy busing. Residents pleaded for the Borough Council to fund the busing for two hours Monday night,…
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Second rabid skunk found
Residents are being warned to avoid contact with wild animals and stray pets after a skunk tested positive in Old Bridge this week, the second of such instances this year. The skunk was found earlier this week after it reportedly bit a dog in the yard of a residential home in the vicinity of Orchard…
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A new place to ‘lodge’ for hungry residents
BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer MICHAEL ACKER Chefs Frank A. Liquori, of Port Reading, and Ronny Mora, of Rahway, pose inside the Lodge restaurant and banquet hall in Sayreville. The Lodge is holding its grand opening this week. SAYREVILLE – A new restaurant and banquet hall has opened with the promise…
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Scenes from a commuter’s imagination
Pen-and-ink works of Robert E. Moore on display at library “Pier” BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN – The commute into New York City is an art form in itself, a stressful, onerous art form. Traffic, pavement and toll tokens are the commuters’ art supplies; highways, bridges and tunnels, their inspiration. But for one Middlesex…
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Police nab 3 suspects in O.B. burglary spree
Suspects include two Sayreville men and one juvenile BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer A recent burglary in Sayreville was thwarted by police, likely bringing an end to a burglary spree that hit 10 Old Bridge homes over several weeks. The series of related burglaries occurred between June 20 and July 12,…
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Board rejects cell tower near apartment complex
BY KRISTIN BOYD Correspondent BY KRISTIN BOYD Correspondent OLD BRIDGE – Citing concerns for residents, the Planning Board recently denied a company’s application to build a cell tower and adjoining storage shed near an apartment complex. Board President Larry Redmond was the lone member to vote in favor of the application, even though minutes before…
