Category: Suburban News

  • Bowers pleads guilty to misconduct charge

    Engineering inspector to be terminated from Old Bridge position BY LAUREN MATTHEW Staff Writer BY LAUREN MATTHEWStaff Writer Old Bridge Township Engineering Inspector Barry Bowers will likely receive a jail term after pleading guilty Tuesday to official misconduct. Barry Bowers, 64, admitted he accepted $7,439 worth of Andersen windows for his home from Woodcliff Developers,…

  • Man escapes police in chase

    BY LAUREN MATTHEW Staff Writer BY LAUREN MATTHEWStaff Writer OLD BRIDGE — A Laurence Harbor man ran from officers who came to his house Saturday to serve him an arrest warrant, police said. Police on Monday were still looking for George Noonan, 20, of Lantana Way, who they said failed to register as a Tier…

  • Teen preserves memory of Holocaust victims

    On display in No. Brunswick, garden contains bricks from Warsaw ghetto BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer JEFF GRANIT staff Matthew Katz proudly stands in front of the Holocaust Remembrance Garden he created for his Eagle Scout project at the B’nai Tikvah synagogue in North Brunswick. During the holidays, people tend to…

  • Big Chill run to aid children and hungry

    The third annual Commerce Bank Big Chill, a 5K run/walk for children and the hungry, steps off Dec. 10 at the College Avenue gym at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. “The Big Chill is a unique charitable event — participants don’t pay a registration fee or raise funds,” said Diane Bonanno, associate dean with Rutgers College…

  • Volunteer-run shelters find pets happy homes

    Animal Rescue Force operates two adoption centers BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer Top, South River’s Jayme Reagan holds one of the dogs available for adoption at the Animal Rescue Force’s Englishtown facility. Above, Linda Reagan, South River, goes over paperwork that Larry Dubin, of Manalapan, needs to fill out in order…

  • Making the bank

    PHOTOS BY SCOTT PILLING staff Old Bridge High School students load a truck Friday with the 5,528 items collected for the township’s food bank. The school-wide food drive was conducted by students with the Rotary Interact Service Club. Members of the Old Bridge-Sayreville Rotary Club suggested that the students organize a drive after learning that…

  • Network to air vet’s WWII story

    FILE PHOTO Ed Kolodziej, at his Parlin law office, displays the medals he received in World War II. SAYREVILLE — It’s been 61 years since an act of courage on the part of Ed Kolodziej knocked the Germans out of a small town in France. Through the decades, there has been minimal interest, at least…

  • Soup kitchen helpers fulfill a growing need

    Volunteers offer meals, clothing and guidance at St. Peter BY MARY ANNE ROSS Correspondent BY MARY ANNE ROSSCorrespondent At left, Ralph Evans (center), Emma-Jane Decker (right) and other volunteers serve dinner at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church. Above, Alice Ryan, a volunteer for the fellowship dinners at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Spotswood, makes sure everything…

  • R.U. scared? Duo chronicles campus lore

    Graduate students began BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer “Rutgers Rarities” founders Jessica Teal and Ray Brennan claim that the Willow Grove Cemetery in New Brunswick, among other campus locations, is haunted. There are vandalized and broken headstones, unmarked graves and an eerie tree struck by lightning in the middle of the…