Category: Suburban News
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Drunken Driving 101
PHOTOSBYJEFF GRANIT staff Above, Old Bridge High School senior Keith Arvidson (r), 18, reacts to student Ray Silvero’s driving during the mock DUI program conducted by the township police. The program runs each year in conjunction with the state police, the Middlesex County Board of Freeholders, and the Middlesex County Road Department. Below, senior Sandeep…
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Fundraisers
June 15 + Books and More Sale, sponsored by the Friends of the Old Bridge Public Library, 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., at the Old Bridge Main Library, Route 516 and Cottrell Road. “Bag Day” for sale remainders. Books (hardcover and paperback), magazines, CDs, DVDs, tapes. Material for children and adults. Proceeds benefit library programming…
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Feds sideline proposal for Woodhaven Village
Expiration of wetlands approvals may stall plan for 733 homes BY LAUREN MATTHEW Staff Writer BY LAUREN MATTHEWStaff Writer A large development application currently before the Old Bridge Planning Board must go back to square one, according to the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Woodhaven, a residential plan being approved and built in two stages,…
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SCOTT PILLING staff Sayreville police Lt. Tom Barbieri and Sgt. David Lasko hold the flags during the annual service for fallen and deceased law enforcement officers at the PBA Memorial in front of borough police headquarters Saturday morning. More photographs, page 35.
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Beloved recreation head gets champion’s farewell
Mickey Sedlak retires after 56 years of service in Sayreville BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer MICHAEL ACKER Mayor Kennedy O’Brien (l) honors longtime public servant Mickey Sedlak (center) with a plaque commemorating Sedlak’s 56 years of service to the borough. Behind Sedlak, from left to right, stand Sedlak’s son, Ron; his…
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Stabbings, arrests follow riot outside Club Abyss
Borough holds off on liquor license renewal for Rt. 35 club BY MICHAEL ACKER and CHRISTINE GRIMALDI Staff Writers BY MICHAEL ACKER and CHRISTINE GRIMALDIStaff Writers SAYREVILLE – Two patrons of a Route 35 club were stabbed after a riot involving hundreds of people broke out early Sunday morning. The incident occurred as Club Abyss…
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SCOTT PILLING staff Sayreville police Detective Joe Wolski pays his respects to fallen officers during an annual memorial service sponsored by the PBA Saturday.
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Man arrested in burglaries at restaurant, liquor store
BY CHRISTINE GRIMALDI AND MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writers BY CHRISTINE GRIMALDI AND MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writers SAYREVILLE – Police arrested a Keansburg man in connection with two separate break-ins at borough businesses. Police said Gerard Denary, 45, was charged Tuesday with burglary, possession of burglary tools and theft in connection with break-ins at the Raritan Discount…
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Hall of Famers
Inductees of the Sayreville War Memorial High School Hall of Fame show their plaques following a May 20 reception at the Veterans of Foreign Wars post on Jernee Mill Road. From left to right are former state senator and current SERA Executive Director Randy Corman, class of ’78; federal court Judge Victor J. Wolski, class…
