Category: Suburban News
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Acting out
PHOTOSBY MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Above, Kimberly Lin plays “the 7-Eleven lady” in “A Gust of Luck,” part of the Short Play Festival put on by Paula Eisen’s Challenge Class students at Carl Sandburg School in Old Bridge Friday night. The second annual festival involved original works for theater written, produced, directed and performed by the…
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Utility rates on the rise for Sayreville residents
BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer SAYREVILLE — Borough water and sewer rates could soon be raised for the first time in several years. The Borough Council is expected to approve an increase of 6 percent in the water and sewer rates at Monday’s council meeting. It would be the first increase…
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Irish folk revivalist returns for local show
BY ANDREA OLIVIO Staff Writer BY ANDREA OLIVIOStaff Writer Mick Moloney The Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission will present a performance by “Irish renaissance man” Mick Moloney March 2 in East Brunswick. For 11 years running, Moloney has been performing to a full house at the Middlesex County Vocational and Technical High School, Rues…
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Local officials advocate changes in ed. funding
BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer SAYREVILLE — Two borough school officials recently attended a conference in Washington, D.C., in an effort to seek more funds for public education. Sayreville Board of Education member Arthur Rittenhouse last week presented the board with an overview of the National School Boards Association’s Federal Relations…
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Local officials advocate changes in ed. funding
BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer SAYREVILLE — Two borough school officials recently attended a conference in Washington, D.C., in an effort to seek more funds for public education. Sayreville Board of Education member Arthur Rittenhouse last week presented the board with an overview of the National School Boards Association’s Federal Relations…
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Neptune given OK to build on River Road
Sayreville planners approve plant that will convert power BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer After years of discussion and approvals, the Neptune RTS power conversion plant has cleared its final hurdle. The Sayreville Planning Board voted unanimously Feb. 17 on site plan approval that will allow Neptune Regional Electrical Transmission Systems to…
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CHRIS KELLY staff Old Bridge’s Brendan Jarvis, 14, checks out a bass guitar at the eighth annual Brookdale Guitar Show, held at Brookdale Community College in Middletown Sunday.
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Old Bridge to honor its hometown heroes
Photographs of servicemen and women to be displayed on wall BY LAUREN MATTHEW Staff Writer BY LAUREN MATTHEWStaff Writer OLD BRIDGE — Township men and women who serve in the military are about to be honored as hometown heroes. Mayor Jim Phillips announced this week that framed photographs of residents on active duty will be…
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Three women chosen as outstanding achievers
Greater Media Newspapers launches new awards program BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer BY CLARE MARIE CELANOStaff Writer Chris Kelly staff Greater Media Newspapers Publisher Kevin Wittman presents an award to Dr. Ann Sweany (r), a finalist in the Greater Women of Central New Jersey awards program in the field of health care. Women of…
