Category: Suburban News

  • On their way to ‘Fame’

    PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY staff Sayreville Main Street Theatre Co. members rehearse for “Fame – The Musical,” which will run from July 29 through Aug. 13 at the Garden Friends Day Care theater, Bordentown Avenue. The production is the second of the season for the theater troupe. Tickets are $18 for adults; $16 for senior…

  • Law would limit where sex offenders can live

    Boro action would keep sex offenders from living near schools, parks BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer SAYREVILLE — Borough officials are considering an ordinance that would regulate where sex offenders may live. Introduced earlier this month by the Borough Council, the ordinance would prohibit registered sex offenders from living within 1,000…

  • Most back in business in Jamesburg district

    Flood repercussions could still present major setback to local economy BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer JEFF GRANIT staff Suburban Cleaners owner Bill Pellino chats with Mayor Anthony LaMantia (l) and council President Otto Kostbar about the damages the shop sustained from last week’s flood. The road to recovery now leads through…

  • Sayreville taps builder for former Krome site

    Woodbridge firm hopes to break ground in spring BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer Sayreville officials have selected a developer for construction of a senior community on the Krome nightclub property. Zigga Roshanski, a partner in Continental Properties, Woodbridge, has been tapped for the project, which will see a gated community with…

  • County awaits word from feds on flood aid

    BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer BY BRIAN DONAHUEStaff Writer The answer to whether federal aid will be made available to residents and businesses affected by the July 17 flood could come within a week. Representatives of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) spent this past Monday and Tuesday visiting damaged areas in Middlesex County and…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff The Sayreville Main Street Theatre Co. rehearses Tuesday for “Fame — The Musical,” which opens Friday and runs through Aug. 13 at the troupe’s new theater on Bordentown Avenue.

  • New MCC prez plans to stay

    BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer EDISON — Middlesex County College’s new president has always felt at home in the university setting. She was already hobnobbing with professors in her first job straight out of college. “Two weeks after graduating from college, I joined the Peace Corps in 1968, and I went…

  • Beach replenishment project now under way

    Tubes beneath sand to stop erosion for up to eight years BY LAUREN MATTHEW Staff Writer BY LAUREN MATTHEWStaff Writer Engineers have begun to replace what nature has taken away from the beach in Laurence Harbor. A Waterfront Park sand dune made by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers more than a decade ago has…

  • New label sets out to rock the Jersey Shore

    Owner of Aberdeen BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG Staff Writer BY MICHELLE ROSENBERGStaff Writer April Smith, 29, Shrewsbury, is the first artist to sign with local independent record label Indigo Planet Records. ABERDEEN — The owner of a local coffeehouse is now offering local starving artists a place to fill their plates. Dave Kosciolek, owner of the…