Category: Suburban News
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59-acre farm placed in preservation program
Action on Old Bridge farm prevents potential building of 127 homes BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer OLD BRIDGE — Any developer who had thought about building on the 59-acre Birardi farm will have to look elsewhere, because the government is buying the farm’s development rights. With the state of…
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Volunteers remove truckloads of trash
Revitalized Conservation Corps finishing season; will start anew in spring BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer SAYREVILLE — Eight garbage trucks filled with trash. That’s the amount of refuse that was removed from the 571-acre Julian L. Capik Nature Preserve on Bordentown Avenue this summer by the Sayreville Conservation Corps. Earlier this…
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Longtime O.B. police officer dies at age 56
BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer OLD BRIDGE — Family, friends and former colleagues this week bid a final farewell to a well-liked, retired police officer who passed away last weekend. Funeral services were held yesterday for retired Old Bridge police officer Victor O’Brien Jr. who died at his home…
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Firm to build entrance to Mannino Park, Y
County to improve intersection at entrance, Rte. 516, Owens Road BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer OLD BRIDGE — A Matawan-based engineering firm has been hired to design an entrance and access road to the Peter A. Mannino Park and YMCA building. Maser Consulting will be paid $58,000 to draw…
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Downpour not enough to stop teachers’ protest
FARRAH MAFFAI staff Because of unresolved contract talks, Sayreville teachers rally in the driving rain outside the Upper Elementary School prior to Back to School Night on Tuesday. Sayreville union stages fourth evening protest outside schools BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer Torrential rains were not enough to keep Sayreville teachers from protesting outside the Upper…
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Game, events help out brain-injured children
BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer SAYREVILLE — Borough employees and a local church battled it out last week for a good cause. The Sayreville All-Stars played against members of Faith Fellowship Ministries at their annual charity softball game Friday night at Waterfront Park. All proceeds went to the Sayreville Association for…
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Eleanor Bates
with her medical team at Raritan Bay, including (l-r) nurses Fran Blom and Judy Rodriguez, paramedics Michael DiMartino and Scott Skrivanek, lab nurses Gloria Garcia, Haydee Garcia and Grace DePerio, Dr. Constante Gil, nurse Diwata Somera, Dr. Rakish Sahni and nurse Alex Pamintuan.
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Children get to star in their own videos
Production crew shows how special effects are created BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer PHOTOSBY MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Students at St. Ambrose School in Old Bridge react upon seeing themselves on a TV monitor during Friday’s “Lights, Camera, Action!” assembly. At left, eighth-grader Helen Shivers forecasts the weather as a…
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A head start on Halloween
PHOTOS BY FARRAH MAFFAI staff Edward Chionchio does his best Edward Scissorhands in pretending to give a haircut to Mark Jara. Below, Alyssa Joy Bowne, 4, paints a pumpkin during Oktoberfest at St. Stan’s in Sayreville on Saturday.
