Category: Suburban News

  • Neptune ready to build power conversion plant

    BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer SAYREVILLE — On July 15, 2007, they plan to throw the switch. That’s the date Mayor Kennedy O’Brien offered for when Neptune Regional Transmission System (RTS) plans to bring its electric converter station online near River Road. The mayor, with other local officials and representatives of…

  • Planting seeds

    PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Above, Guillermo Cabrera, 3, of Old Bridge, gets a red apple painted on his cheek at the annual Apple Festival held Sunday at the Old Bridge municipal complex. The event, with numerous featured guests and exhibits, was sponsored by the Madison Township Historical Society. At right, Caesar Cabrera, 6, of Old…

  • Retired Army colonel thanks Salk students

    Old Bridge resident wounded in Iraq pays emotional visit BY MARY ANNE ROSS Correspondent BY MARY ANNE ROSSCorrespondent CHRIS KELLY staff Retired U.S. Army Col. John McLean looks to his wife, Mary Ellen, while the Jonas Salk Middle School band and chorus perform “God Bless America” Nov. 4. McLean recently returned from Iraq, where he…

  • Residents, town seek solution to trespassing

    BY LAUREN MATTHEW Staff Writer BY LAUREN MATTHEWStaff Writer OLD BRIDGE — For residents of The Arbors, the long walk is over. Residents of the development, adjacent to the township’s municipal complex, approached the Township Council Monday night for the second time asking for answers to problems with safety and trespassing. And they got them.…

  • Program in need of foster families

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer In a season of giving, there may be no better way to give than to foster a child. Catholic Charities, Diocese of Metuchen, is currently seeking foster homes or emergency respite families for the more than 500 children displaced throughout Middlesex County. “It is a very…

  • Friends hoping masses cozy up to new pillow

    Pair from Old Bridge ready to market their invention BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Rick Arnao watches as John Moore demonstrates how his invention, the CozyMe Pillow, helps babies during “tummy time.” OLD BRIDGE –– Though both have jobs that keep them on the move, John Moore and…

  • Musicians come together for Cash tribute concert

    BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer Jeffrey Gaines ‘The man in black” has not been forgotten.Far from it, as evidenced by the 50-plus musicians who will gather Sunday to perform the music of Johnny Cash at a Route 35 club in South Amboy. New Jersey-based country/roots performer Michael Patrick is organizing “Johnny…

  • ‘Tommy’ being staged at renovated theater

    BY MICHAEL ACKER Correspondent BY MICHAEL ACKERCorrespondent A cast of 36 actors has brought The Who’s critically acclaimed rock opera “Tommy” to the stage of the newly renovated Middlesex County College Performing Arts Center in Edison. The Who’s Pete Townshend wrote most of “Tommy” as the tale of a deaf, mute and blind boy’s struggle…

  • Rutgers seminars will focus on horse industry

    The Rutgers Equine Science Center at Cook College will sponsor two educational seminars on Dec. 13. Both events will take place at the New Jersey Museum of Agriculture on the Cook College campus of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, according to Diana M. Orban Brown, the center’s director of communications. The first seminar, Equine Management Update,…