Category: Suburban News
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Beatlemania tour is a ‘magical mystery’
Impersonators will chronicle Fab Four career at Marasco Center BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer MONROE — Tony Isoldi very clearly remembers the excitement when the Beatles first appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. More than four decades later, he would like to bring that same excitement to Monroe. “I remember the…
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Expensive headlights stolen from dealer lot
BY ANDREA OLIVIO Staff Writer BY ANDREA OLIVIOStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Police are investigating the theft of 36 pairs of Xenon head lamps from an Acura dealership on Route 18. The thefts took place around 9 p.m. Feb. 6. In addition to the headlights, suspects stole a brown Acura Integra from the dealership and…
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Principal energized by elementary school
Georgia Baumann BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Georgia Baumann pays a visit to a first-grade class Monday morning at Sayreville’s Woodrow Wilson School, where she is principal. For Georgia Baumann, it’s all about the children.Every weekday morning, the principal of Woodrow Wilson Elementary School in Sayreville makes her…
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Women’s cancer support center has new location
The WISE Center offers services, products from Cranbury Rd. office BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer JEFF GRANIT staff Jeanne Rooney, president of the WISE Center in East Brunswick, moves the Perometer 350S as it uses infrared beams to take measurements of Stacy Siregar’s leg. EAST BRUNSWICK — The township is now…
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Old Bridge explores redistricting strategies
Elementary schools to begin transition programs in April BY LAUREN MATTHEW Staff Writer BY LAUREN MATTHEWStaff Writer A school planning committee is looking at ways to help elementary school students affected by a redistricting plan make a smooth transition to their new schools next fall. Also at their Feb. 9 meeting, members of the Old…
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Holt shares philosophies on U.S., foreign issues
The past BY LAUREN MATTHEW Staff Writer BY LAUREN MATTHEWStaff Writer PHOTOS BY MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Congressman Rush Holt (D-12) talks politics with students from the Old Bridge High School government and politics courses at the west campus Monday. OLD BRIDGE — Old Bridge High School students sat in the west campus library Monday, listening…
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Power plays
Sayreville Upper Elementary School physical education teacher Wayne Lewis, in conjunction with the borough’s recreation department, made up for the lack of a National Hockey League season this year by running a floor hockey league of their own. Top, fourth-graders sing along and dance the “YMCA” at the school’s floor hockey final Friday. Above, Sean…
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Puppeteering
PHOTOSBY SCOTT PILLING staff Above, Cheesequake Elementary School students Maya Hernandez (l) and Kaushik Sanunda, both 5, enjoy the puppet show “Willow Girl” at the Old Bridge school Tuesday. At left, puppet actors perform for the students.
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Officials set up site to support law
State officials are urging residents to contact the federal government as part of an effort to keep New Jersey’s Do Not Call Law intact. Acting Gov. Richard J. Codey recently unveiled a Web site, www.nj.gov/protectdonotcall, to make it easier for residents to send messages directly to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Codey and other state…
