Category: Suburban News
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Old New York turns 1 with Mushmouth
OLD BRIDGE — For eight years, Mushmouth has brought its mix of goofy and fun cover tunes to clubs from North Jersey to Red Bank, but new nightspot Old New York is quickly becoming a favorite venue. The band caught many by surprise with its Bee Gees-to-Led Zeppelin song catalog at its first appearance at…
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Crossroads plan could be up for vote Monday
37-page building plan available for public inspection at library BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer The debate over a controversial proposal to build a residential/commercial development on 500 acres of municipal land is expected to heat up again Monday. Two previously tabled ordinances, one to officially adopt the proposal, known…
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Teachers excited about new classrooms, extras
BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer OLD BRIDGE — It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity that has fourth-grade teacher Larry Lawrence glad he’s working in a new, air-conditioned classroom. Even as the nine-year teacher at Alan B. Shepard Elementary School rushed on Tuesday to get his newly finished classroom…
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Groups cite Maher for late wages once again
BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer OLD BRIDGE — Two Latino day laborers who were owed $1,200 in back wages by Township Councilman Dennis Maher’s landscaping firm were paid in full yesterday. Mahonrry Hidalgo of the Freehold-based Immigrants and Day Laborers Support Committee (IDLSC) said Wednesday that the two men,…
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Classes continuing despite construction
Old Bridge schools in midst of major renovation project BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer Old Bridge schoolsin midst of major renovation projectBY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer PHOTOSBY FARRAH MAFFAI staff Above, the framework of the new student services wing of Old Bridge High School has risen on the East campus and is expected to…
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Residents pay tribute to murdered teenager
Candlelight vigil held outside Krome days after shooting BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer Candlelight vigilheld outside Kromedays after shootingBY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer Sayreville Mayor Kennedy O’Brien lights the candle of Debbie Jackson, Old Spye Road, at a candlelight vigil Sept. 4 outside Krome nightclub in honor of murder victim Che Broadus. SAYREVILLE — Residents and…
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Remaining employees lament plant’s closing
FARRAH MAFFAI staff Frank Terzino, one of a handful of remaining employees at Green Tree in Sayreville, has long sought help to keep the former Hercules plant in operation. Workers dismantling last of what was the Hercules chemical plant BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer If you were to walk around the perimeter of Green Tree…
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9/11 memorial ceremony
set for next Sat. morning BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer set for next Sat. morning BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer OLD BRIDGE — The heroes and victims of the terrorist attacks on America nearly three years ago will be quietly recalled during the township’s special memorial ceremony on Sept. 11. Scheduled to be held…
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Popular stylist remembered for work ethic, love of life
Popular stylist remembered for work ethic, love of life OLD BRIDGE — Even as they artistically cut and style hair and paint fingernails, the employees at a busy Route 9 beauty salon are mourning the loss of a colleague who once danced for them as he worked and made them laugh. Aluisio Rocha, a popular…
