Category: Suburban News

  • Woman thanks her lifesavers 1 year later

    Parlin woman saved by her brother, patrolmen after heart attack BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer Colleen Carey holds the automatic externad defibrillator used on her while standing with two of her heroes, Sayreville patrolmen Kevin Connors and Joe Monaco. SAYREVILLE — Colleen Carey had no warning signs something was amiss. The…

  • There’s no place like home…

    FARRAH MAFFAI staff Glinda, played by Shannon Connolly, of Old Bridge, in Munchkin Land with Dorothy, played by Melissa Lea Dennen, of Monroe, during a Main Street Theatre Co. dress rehearsal for “The Wizard of Oz” Tuesday at the Step Inn Ballroom in Sayreville. The show runs from tomorrow through Oct. 2. Call (732) 553-1153.…

  • Old Bridge honors its Sept. 11 victims

    Solemn ceremony at memorial recalls 12 residents who died BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer Solemn ceremony atmemorial recalls 12 residents who diedBY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer STEVEN M. BARON Cody Vientos reflects in front of one of the 12 memorial stones to local victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror strikes during a ceremony…

  • Pallone, residents meet on flood control plan

    Congressman says levee near residences cannot be expedited BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer Congressman sayslevee near residencescannot be expeditedBY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer SAYREVILLE — Weber Avenue residents fear the South River will one day flood their street. A flood control plan for the river, which had recently been in a feasibility phase of development, moved…

  • Freeholders stepping up transportation services

    County hiring director to oversee new department BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer County hiring director to overseenew departmentBY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer Middlesex County is getting its own Department of Transportation, a move that officials say will improve the quality of transportation services for county residents. The new department will be headed by a director of…

  • Fund-raisers

    Sept. 16 • 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…

  • Proponents talk tax relief, retirees’ needs

    Mayor: We are helping people from being BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer Mayor: We are helping people from being ‘taxedout of their homes’BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer OLD BRIDGE — Longtime residents over age 55 might soon be able to remain in the township they have come to love rather than moving to adult…

  • Soviet works are focus of Zimmerli exhibition

    Boris Mikhailov’s print from the series, Red, 1960s-70s, which is part of the Dodge Collection and featured in the upcoming Zimmerli exhibition. Irony and invention in the face of adversity is the theme of a major exhibition of Soviet photography opening Saturday in New Brunswick. “Beyond Memory: Soviet Nonconformist Photography and Photo-Related Works of Art”…