Category: Suburban News

  • Sayreville six discuss issues in ’04 election

    SAYREVILLE — Voters will choose from six candidates spanning three parties in the municipal election now less than three weeks away. The only incumbent running is council President Thomas Pollando, who is seeking a second term and is running on the Democratic ticket with newcomer Dan Buchanan. The Republican ticket includes John Gluchowski, who is…

  • O.B. Day marked by crowds and clouds

    BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer FARRAH MAFFAI staff Denise Gruppuso helps her 4-year-old daughter, Madison, put together a memory box in The Home Depot tent during Old Bridge Day Saturday. OLD BRIDGE — Alongside the usual vendors selling wares, firefighters teaching fire safety, police fingerprinting kids and politicians on…

  • Series of bomb scares troubles O.B. parents

    $1,000 reward offered for the arrest, conviction of suspects BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer The culprits behind recent bomb threats at five district schools will never again attend a public school in Old Bridge if found guilty, officials pledged Monday. Facing more than 200 frustrated and apparently frightened parents…

  • Vietnam War still haunts reluctant soldier’s family

    COURTESY OF JOANN GONDER-WOODLEY Army draftee Kenneth W. Gonder poses for a picture on the lawn of his family’s East Brunswick home in late 1969. Gonder, 23, was killed in Vietnam in May 1970. BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer Like many young men of his generation, Kenneth W. Gonder did not want to go…

  • Town given land for school use, open space

    BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer OLD BRIDGE — Some 235 acres of open land near a housing development that is under construction off Texas Road are now in the township’s hands. Officials expect to designate approximately 15 acres of that land for a future elementary school, community center and…

  • Borough concerned about upcoming temple events

    Officials: Hindu temple reneged on agreement for date, parade route BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer SAYREVILLE — Borough officials are worried upcoming celebrations and a parade have the potential to paralyze part of the town. The Dwarkadhish Temple, Washington Road, is expected to hold events the week of Oct. 16-23, concluding…

  • Former teacher pleads guilty in molestation

    BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer SAYREVILLE — A former Sayreville War Memorial High School teacher pleaded guilty last week to molesting a former student. Gregory Palmer, 38, who taught English at the high school for seven years, was arrested in April 2003 and charged with having criminal sexual contact with a…

  • Old Bridge awarded grant for sidewalks

    $100,000 from county will help officials create BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer OLD BRIDGE — Sidewalks eventually could line the south side of Route 516 in the area that the township seeks to promote as “Main Street.” With the goal of making the existing Village at Town Center shopping…

  • Unpopular split lunch sessions ease crowding

    Sayreville board gets earful about 20-minute lunches BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer A solution to ease overcrowding in the Sayreville War Memorial High School cafeteria has not gone over well with some students and parents. Many of those upset about the new split lunch sessions at the high school voiced their…