Category: Suburban News
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Nosy dogs show off their skills
In wake of threats, demonstration helps students understand role CHRIS KELLY staff Students at Carl Sandburg Middle School try to pet Jake, a friendly yellow Lab, who serves as a narcotics K-9 with the Old Bridge Police Department. OLD BRIDGE — If you think you could hide even the smallest amount of illegal drugs from…
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Start of Raritan project put off until Sept. ’05
The start of a project designed to reclaim the Raritan River for recreation will have to wait until next September. The first phase of the Raritan River Strategy Plan, a large-scale plan involving nine towns in Middlesex County that border the river, would have seen the river dredged from the Albany Street bridge in New…
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Fiery accident stifles traffic flow, services
Driver of gas tanker escapes without injury in early a.m. crash BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer A tanker truck carrying 9,000 gallons of gasoline overturned in a fiery explosion early yesterday, closing both sides of Route 9 in Sayreville. The tractor-trailer, driven by John D. Williams, of West Berlin, had left Dana Transport in Carteret…
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Insurance carrier will move in at Globespan
Will be first tenant at building, constructed nearly three years ago BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer OLD BRIDGE — A major health insurance provider will soon move into a section of the long-vacant Globespan office building in Laurence Harbor. Health Net, a Connecticut-based health insurance provider, expects to move…
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Local firefighters take home safety on the road
Children, parents get lesson at Cheesequake Fire Co. BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer SUE M. MORGAN A group of children prepare to escape from a bedroom “fire” inside the Cheesequake Volunteer Fire Company’s “Fire Safety Trailer” during an Oct. 9 open house. OLD BRIDGE — As an alarm sounds…
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JERRY WOLKOWITZ staff Investigators examine the cab of the overturned gasoline tanker that exploded on Route 9 early yesterday, closing the highway in both directions.
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Fund-raisers
Oct. 21 • The Spotswood High School Band is participating in a Kash for Kids fund-raising program that pays the band $2 for each empty inkjet or laser computer cartridge collected. Collection boxes are at the high school, Memorial School and KrisKell Creations Hair Salon, all Summerhill Road; Schoenly School, Kane Avenue; the Spotswood Public…
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First-time music festival headed for Rte. 35 club
Several of New Jersey’s promising original rock bands will get together in South Amboy Saturday to perform and raise money for youth music scholarships. The first-ever New Jersey Independent Music Festival, to be held at Club Centro, Route 35, is part of an effort to bring together original musicians from throughout New Jersey so they…
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Taxicab driver killed in weekend accident
BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG Staff Writer BY MICHELLE ROSENBERGStaff Writer An Old Bridge man was killed Sunday when the taxicab he was driving was involved in a head-on collision reportedly caused by a drunken driver. Police said Carl A. Mottey, 63, was killed after a car being driven by Rajal Brooks, 30, of Matawan Avenue, Aberdeen,…
