Category: Suburban News
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Wish-granters look to call Monroe home
Castle-like building expected to be part of ballpark complex BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer An artist’s rendering of the proposed Make-A-Wish headquarters. Described as the first of its kind on the East Coast, a castle-like facility that would house the Make-A-Wish Foundation is being proposed for Route 33. The nonprofit organization…
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Not always the dog days for roadside vendor
Cheese, chili and onions are added to a hot dog at Bear’s on Bordentown Avenue. What would you like on your hot dog?Chili? Cheese? Maybe a little mustard and relish. You can have it just about any way you like at Break Time or Tom’s Hot Dogs, both on Main Street in Sayreville, at Bear’s…
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Retired officer joins GOP slate for council
Ronald Green takes Bella BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer SAYREVILLE — A retired borough police officer has stepped into this fall’s race for two Borough Council seats. Ronald Green, a current member of the Sayreville Planning Board, has been selected to run on the Republican ticket alongside incumbent Frank Makransky, the…
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First responders to share soldiers’ high-tech tools
Fort BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer Above, Fort Monmouth Fire Chief John Erichsen describes the functions of a prototype sensor pack that firefighter John Rizzitello is wearing during a CERDECdemonstration at the fort Aug. 1. At left, Rizzitello and firefighter Tommy Wieczerzak describe the device to a reporter. FORT…
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Singin’ and swingin’
Above, Karina Gonzalez and Cindy Aulisio (r), members of Lip Service, perform at the Laurence Harbor waterfront during the annual Salt Water Day festival Saturday. Below, Frank Matak swings his 7-month-old granddaughter, Gianna, during an afternoon visit to Salt Water Day. Events featured musical entertainment, children’s attractions and fireworks. PHOTOS BY MIGUEL JUAREZ staff
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Rutgers student’s death still under investigation
BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer BY PATRICIA A. MILLERStaff Writer NEW BRUNSWICK — Police don’t suspect any foul play in the death of a 20-year-old Rutgers University student found dead in an off-campus house last week. “It doesn’t appear suspicious, but we won’t know until the autopsy results are forwarded to us,” Sgt. Richard…
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Monroe man, 75, dies after Clearbrook fire
BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer MONROE –– A township man died Monday of injuries sustained a week earlier in a fire at his home in the Clearbrook adult community. Marvin Glaser, of Oradell Drive, died at 3 a.m. at the St. Barnabas Burn Center, Livingston, where he had been taken after…
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Hercules to raze buildings, mull options
Explosion at former manufacturing site sent flames 100 feet into air BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer STEVEN M. BARON The remains of a building destroyed in last week’s fire at the Hercules plant on South Minisink Avenue in Sayreville. Demolition proceedings are being expedited at a defunct manufacturing plant in light…
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Police identify suspect in area bank robberies
BY MELISSA CIFELLI Staff Writer BY MELISSA CIFELLIStaff Writer Caleb Frosh SOUTH BRUNSWICK — He could be the man behind the note. Police have identified the man they believe is the serial bank robber suspected in six robberies in central New Jersey, as Caleb A. Frosh, 22, of Columbus, Ohio. He has been linked by…
