Category: Suburban News

  • Boro wants appraisal for town’s last farm

    Local officials, farm owner hope to get tract in preservation program BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer SAYREVILLE — Borough officials and a local farmer are continuing efforts to save land that is part of Sayreville history. The Dieker farm, located between Bordentown Avenue and the Garden State Parkway, was purchased by…

  • Works of late OBHS teacher now on exhibit

    Michael Grace had a lasting impact on his art students BY LAUREN MATTHEW Staff Writer BY LAUREN MATTHEWStaff Writer Most people can remember at least one teacher who impressed them, who made them care about the subject they were studying or pointed them toward a career. A teacher whose passion and concern for students surpass…

  • Sayreville schools ready for expansion

    School board tells planners no changes expected in plans BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer SAYREVILLE — A proposed high school expansion inched closer to reality last week. School officials met with the Planning Board last week to present a preliminary overview of the work that has been done so far and…

  • Barris ‘Perfectly Frank’ when talking Sinatra

    Elberon resident offers appreciation course on singer at Brookdale BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer MIDDLETOWN — Mike Barris conducted an imaginary orchestra. Frank Sinatra’s “That’s Why the Lady Is a Tramp” blasted from a tiny boombox for the third time in a row. Barris, a Brookdale Community College guest…

  • Final curtain

    CHRIS KELLY staff Frank Norek and Jennifer Gumpert act out a scene from “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Performances will wrap up this weekend at the Step Inn Ballroom, MacArthur Avenue in Sayreville.

  • Meetings planned for library groups and clubs

    The Old Bridge Public Library Main Branch, Route 516 and Cottrell Road, has scheduled a variety of upcoming events. The Savvy Seniors discussion and activities group will hold a meeting at 10:30 a.m. on Dec. 14. The group usually meets on the second Tuesday of every month in the library’s large meeting room to discuss…

  • Club donates $25K to cancer institute

    The Old Bridge-Sayreville Rotary Club recently donated $25,000 to help fund ovarian cancer research programs at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ). The programs include studying new methods of detecting and preventing ovarian cancer and testing new ways to treat the disease. “Ovarian cancer is a devastating disease that is often hard to detect,”…

  • Remembering

    PHOTOSBY FARRAH MAFFAI staff American Legion Lenape Post 211 member Adam Rosiniski participates in Tuesday morning’s Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day ceremony in Sayreville.Tuesday morning’s services were dedicated to Harry Wasnak, a local resident who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor 63 years ago as a member of the U.S. Army’s 25th Infantry Division.

  • Snow removal offered for seniors, disabled

    Sayreville Mayor Kennedy O’Brien, Senior Center Borough Council Liaison Frank Makransky and the borough governing body are reactivating the Senior Center/Disabled Snow Removal Program to help provide assistance to borough residents in need. The program will be administered through the Sayreville Office on Aging. The office will attempt to pair seniors and disabled individuals with…