Category: Suburban News

  • Families needed to raise puppies for Seeing Eye

    The Seeing Eye dog guide school relies on volunteer families from New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware to provide puppies with early training that gives them a head start in learning how to guide a blind person. The Seeing Eye has a continuous need for volunteers to raise future Seeing Eye dogs for about the first…

  • Police look into drive-by

    BY LAUREN MATTHEW Staff Writer BY LAUREN MATTHEWStaff Writer OLD BRIDGE — A drive-by shooting at 11:30 p.m. Saturday on Sunrise Road left residents there shaken. Though no one was injured, the shooting, which sent a bullet through a local residence, remains a mystery in terms of who did it and their possible motive. “It…

  • MVC to issue licenses at boro Senior Center

    SAYREVILLE — Eligible senior citizens will be able to obtain digital driver’s licenses Dec. 15 at the borough’s Senior Center. The state Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) will have a mobile driver’s license unit at the facility from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. to distribute the licenses, according to announcement from state Assemblyman John S. Wisniewski…

  • Sides reach agreement on ordinance violation

    Gas station owner to join citizens group on cigarette sales BY LAUREN MATTHEW Staff Writer BY LAUREN MATTHEWStaff Writer OLD BRIDGE — It’s not every day that people on both sides of a court case will walk away happy. But after a series of agreements, that’s what happened with Route 9 Sunoco owner Joe Citara…

  • Diner owner recalled for kindness, hard work

    Alex Panko helped found family-run Peter Pank in 1956 BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer He helped found an eatery that for 48 years has been a landmark in Sayreville and a popular stop along Route 9. After nearly a half-century of providing good food, hard work and a friendly face at…

  • Man, 73, dies in jump

    BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer SAYREVILLE — A Colonia resident jumped to his death from the Edison Bridge last week. Police said John J. Carroll, 73, of Colonia, was seen by a state Department of Transportation (DOT) employee getting out of his car on the southbound side of the Route 9…

  • Move over, turkey

    PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff Students line up to enjoy the multicultural feast last week at Old Bridge’s Madison Park School, with dishes from places like Pakistan, West Africa, Ecuador, India and the United States. In top photo, Roberto Roja, 9, wears Mexican clothing during the feast.

  • Old Bridge reviving local Ethics Board

    BY LAUREN MATTHEW Staff Writer BY LAUREN MATTHEWStaff Writer OLD BRIDGE — The township’s Ethics Board will be revived by the new year. Mayor Jim Phillips and Township Council members William Baker and Richard Greene recently made the decision to make the board active again. Phillips said during the Nov. 22 council meeting that two…

  • Group sends Myers a lofty ‘thank you’

    Retired Sayreville police officer remains active in community BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer FARRAH MAFFAI staff Retired Sayreville Police Sgt. Joe Myers, now a part-time gym teacher at Our Lady of Victories, helps Nicholas Donazal with pushup techniques in class yesterday. Below, a billboard on Ernston Road honors his 34 years…