Category: Suburban News

  • Builder, boro get busy on Nat’l Lead effort

    LNR plan splits redevelopment project into five districts BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer With the builder now in place, negotiations will get under way on an agreement to redevelop Sayreville’s National Lead site. LNR Property Corp. is now working with Sayreville officials to negotiate a cohesive development agreement for the project,…

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    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Jed Soriano soaks up the moment after being crowned Mr. Old Bridge during an Old Bridge High School pageant March 16.

  • Town’s help is sought on accident-prone road

    Ticetown Rd. property has been damaged numerous times over BY LAUREN MATTHEW Staff Writer BY LAUREN MATTHEWStaff Writer The accident count is over a dozen.Since he started keeping track in October 2003, Jim Samuelson, of Ticetown Road in Old Bridge, has seen his front yard become the resting place of banged-up cars on too many…

  • Residents: Bus stop led to speeding, cut-through

    Boro will consider parking restrictions, removal of bus stop BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer SAYREVILLE – Residents of Laurel Park are concerned about commuters who they say speed through their neighborhood and clog their streets with parked cars. Residents of the community, located near Bordentown Avenue and Ernston Road, approached the…

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    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Three-month-old Jenna Ranelli, of Old Bridge, cozies up to the Easter bunny during a photo shoot March 11 at St. Thomas the Apostle School, Route 18.

  • Improvements planned at routes 18, 516, 527

    BY LAUREN MATTHEW Staff Writer BY LAUREN MATTHEWStaff Writer OLD BRIDGE – A $29 million project to improve Route 18’s intersection with routes 527 and 516 is slated for a spring 2008 start. The state Department of Transportation last week held a public information session on the proposal at the Old Bridge Public Library, and…

  • Woman, 83, dies after car is rear-ended

    OLD BRIDGE – An 83-year-old township woman was killed Tuesday after the vehicle she was in was struck from behind. Anisa Khatoon was pronounced dead at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick at 2 p.m., about two hours after a pickup truck rear-ended the Toyota in which she was a passenger. The Toyota…

  • Crafty

    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Cousins Rachel and Melanie Dennis, both 8, check out the jumping spiders on display at St. Thomas the Apostle School’s craft fair in Old Bridge March 11. Festivities also included a photo shoot with the Easter bunny.

  • Wave that flag

    SCOTT PILLING staff Members of the Sayreville War Memorial High School color guard perform during the March 11 Winterguard competition, which was hosted by Sayreville and involved numerous New Jersey schools.