Category: Suburban News
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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.
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Inn’s future unclear
Neighbors had opposed a plan to convert building for five apartments BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer SAYREVILLE — Some neighbors of the defunct Polonaise Inn were prepared to oppose a plan to convert the longtime tavern into five apartments when owners pulled the plug on the project. Linda Hyslop, whose Washington…
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Retired nurse first to have procedure done at hospital
Her message: Symptoms of heart attack in women can be far more subtle Eleanor Bates was startled awake at 6 a.m., sweating profusely and feeling a strange pain in her jaw. Bates, a retired registered nurse from Perth Amboy, dismissed the ailments as the typical aches and pains of a 65-year-old person. She took some…
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Waterfront project’s next phase celebrated
Officials break ground for playground, gazebo, canoe launch BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer OLD BRIDGE — By next Labor Day weekend, playgrounds, a gazebo and a canoe launch could be gracing the Raritan Bay shoreline in Cliffwood Beach. Under gray skies Sept. 15, several county and township officials shoveled…
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Ticket broker fugitive apprehended in Mexico
John B. Forrest being held in Texas, awaiting extradition BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer A package shipped via Federal Express turned out to be the clue that led a bounty hunter to catch ex-ticket broker John B. Forrest, a fugitive since January. New Jersey authorities are awaiting the return…
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Doctor weighs in on the strengths of diet trends
BY MELISSA CIFELLI Staff Writer BY MELISSA CIFELLIStaff Writer Learning how to live longer by eating well was the goal of seniors attending a natural medicine seminar Sept. 13. Dr. Bonnie Camo, M.D., who practices natural medicine and homeopathy in Kendall Park, attempted to dispel some common diet myths at the seminar, held at the…
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Old church building is given a new life
Cottrell Corners church to be dedicated Sunday at refurbished building BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer OLD BRIDGE — At an old, dilapidated church building, volunteers hammered nails, laid down new floors, tore down walls and then freshly painted new ones. They fixed leaks in the ceiling and installed new…
