Category: Suburban News

  • Council mulls other sites for proposed 9/11 memorial

    Officials voice security concerns about having memorial at school BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer SAYREVILLE — The Borough Council held a closed-session discussion Monday on security issues with building the proposed 9/11 memorial at the borough’s middle school. A borough commission led by Detective Kenneth Kelly has finished the memorial’s design,…

  • Hold ’em or fold ’em

    CHRIS KELLY staff Brandon Castro, 14, takes a look at his hand during the Teen Casino Night held Jan. 30 at Old Bridge Public Library.

  • Jets pass on locating headquarters in O.B.

    Mayor: Attention has brought interest from other entities BY LAUREN MATTHEW Staff Writer BY LAUREN MATTHEWStaff Writer There’s no need to roll out the green carpet.The New York Jets organization last week released a narrowed list of prospective sites for its future headquarters and practice facility, and though Mayor Jim Phillips had pitched township-owned land…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Tara Beams of Long Branch, Kathryn Comiciotto of Belle Meade, and Rob Tilley, also Belle Meade, rehearse their roles for the Sayreville Main Street Theatre Company’s production of “Side Show.” The musical runs Feb. 10, 11, 17 and 18 at 8 p.m., and Feb. 12 at 3 p.m. at the company’s theater…

  • Plan for office complex, housing, hotel denied

    Months of hearings on Alfieri applications come to an end BY LAUREN MATTHEW Staff Writer BY LAUREN MATTHEWStaff Writer A decades-old plan to build residences, offices and a hotel in Old Bridge’s Laurence Harbor section may never see the light of day. The Zoning Board of Adjustment last week denied site plan approval for a…

  • Hair care

    Lisa Dill, of Old Bridge, cuts Sayreville resident Mandy Murray’s hair Jan. 28 at the Hair Together Salon in Sayreville for donation to the Locks of Love charity organization. At right, Mandy Murray holds up the hair that she had cut off. PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY staff

  • Facing a new year

    CHRIS KELLY staff Theodora Abigail, 7, and Jason Kvartek, 6, color in the faces of dragons Jan. 24 during the Old Bridge Public Library’s Chinese New Year celebration.

  • Busboy allegedly stabbed co-workers with cleaver

    BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer SAYREVILLE — An after-hours gathering of employees at a local restaurant ended in bloodshed last week. Guillermo Osvaldo Tonisson, 50, of Newark, is facing attempted murder charges after he allegedly used a meat cleaver to stab the owner of Spanish Riviera and a coworker at the…

  • Security concerns stall plan for 9/11 memorial

    Boro wants monument to be in place in time for Sept. 11 BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer A proposed 9/11 memorial expected to cost $250,000 is being proposed on the grounds of Sayreville’s middle school. Police Detective Kenneth Kelly, who sits on a committee formed in 2002 to plan for the…