Category: Suburban News

  • Indicted O.B. engineer copped winning parcel bid

    Connection is an BY COLLEEN LUTOLF Staff Writer BY COLLEEN LUTOLFStaff Writer Brick Township sident George Scott was the losing bidder at a public auction for Lighthouse Court, a Brick Township-owned six-lot subdivision off Hooper Avenue. The winner was Wall-based Jerald Development Group, represented by John Vincenti. Jerald supplied the $750,000 winning bid for the…

  • Old Bridge will take part in new flood commission

    BY LAUREN MATTHEW Staff Writer BY LAUREN MATTHEWStaff Writer OLD BRIDGE — Flooding is everyone’s problem. That was the sentiment expressed Monday night, when Township Council members voted unanimously to establish and participate in a joint flood control commission with area municipalities. After heavy rainfall washed over Middlesex County in July, causing serious flooding in…

  • Amenities, lights being added at Phillips Park

    Soccer, baseball fields already in place at county-owned facility BY LAUREN MATTHEW Staff Writer BY LAUREN MATTHEWStaff Writer The Phillips family was all smiles last Thursday, digging shovels with red bows tied on them into the ground at John A. Phillips Park in Old Bridge. The county-owned park, which will enter a second phase of…

  • Board asks Wawa reps for new traffic study

    BY LAUREN MATTHEW Staff Writer BY LAUREN MATTHEWStaff Writer OLD BRIDGE — Wawa representatives continued making their case this week for a combination convenience store and gas station they hope to build at Texas and Old Bridge-Englishtown roads. Testimony on the plan began in July and continued Tuesday before the Zoning Board of Adjustment, but…

  • Hearings set on new gas compressor sites

    Energy company will select one of eight locations in two towns BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer A natural gas company has identified two more sites as potential locations for a new compressor facility. Tulsa, Okla.-based energy company Williams is now considering a total of eight sites in Sayreville and Old Bridge.…

  • Break-ins, thefts reported in store lot

    OLD BRIDGE — Police are investigating two seemingly related car break-ins at a Route 9 parking lot. A Linden resident told police that between 6:24 and 7:24 p.m. Sunday, his 1998 Volkswagen was broken into. The vehicle had been locked, according to the police report, and the owner had been in the Friendly’s restaurant at…

  • Fun in the sun

    Evangelos Kahtsakalis, (above), owner of Evans Restaurant, Matawan, cooks up beef shish kebab at Old Bridge Day on Oct. 1. At right, Amanda Carney, 6, of Old Bridge, leaps from a trampoline that was provided by World Wide Gymnastics as one of the activities for children at the daylong event. PHOTOSBYJERRY WOLKOWITZ staff

  • Old Bridge Day

    PHOTOS BY JERRY WOLKOWITZ staff Above, Jada Scali, 6, of Old Bridge, gets a hand from Ashley Morrison, an instructor with World Wide Gymnastics, during Old Bridge Day Oct. 1. At left, Gary Razvodosky, a member of the Old Bridge High School Air Force ROTC program, performs a rifle drill.

  • Breakfast Club hearings to continue in November

    BY LAUREN MATTHEW Staff Writer BY LAUREN MATTHEWStaff Writer OLD BRIDGE — Anyone seeking a resolution to long-standing parking issues surrounding the Breakfast Club will have to wait at least until November. Because of a transcription error in the testimony given at a July 7 Zoning Board of Adjustment hearing, the board last week pushed…