• Rebuild the shore sustainably

    For an area with little good news since superstorm Sandy, it was a symbolic victory this week when the beach town of Belmar drove in the first piling to reconstruct its boardwalk. Gov. Christie was on-site, along with TV network news cameras. It’s the start of a massive effort to get the Belmar boardwalk rebuilt…

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    The red-winged blackbird, seen here at Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, Oceanville, aggressively defends its territory from other animals. A red-winged blackbird will even attack humans who get too close to its nest during breeding season. BILL PATRICK/www.maiseyimages.com

  • Edison charities receive nearly $100k

    EDISON — A number of charitable and volunteer organizations in the township benefited recently from $90,000 in donations from the Barclays PGA Tournament Committee, which held its Classic tournament at the Plainfield Country Club in August. Mayor Antonia Ricigliano presented the monies to 20 Edison organizations at a Jan. 8 event. The organizations included those…

  • Metuchen man, others indicted on drug, money-laundering charges

    Metuchen warehouse allegedly used for cocaine trafficking Cesar E. Perez Four men — including one from Metuchen — were indicted Jan. 17 on first-degree conspiracy, narcotics and money-laundering charges, Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa announced. The charges were in connection with an alleged drug-trafficking network in Bergen County that was dismantled last year when the…

  • Edison’s MLK school honors its namesake

    Award-winning singer-songwriter Red Grammer makes appearance at program BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Red Grammer EDISON — Maybe it was the township elementary school’s namesake that made the event on Jan. 18 that much more poignant, as the students at Martin Luther King Elementary School came together for a full day of special events to…

  • Edison sisters’ successful business launch ‘must be karma’

    Portion of T-shirt proceeds are donated to Hurricane Sandy N.J. Relief Fund BY JESSICA D’AMICO Staff Writer Sisters Leena and Anita Prabhakar, ages 12 and 9, respectively, model the karmically charged T-shirts of their family’s creation. Two entrepreneurial sisters in Edison are using their budding business acumen and care for others to generate good karma…

  • Metuchen man, among first African-American U.S. Marines, dies

    Daniel E. Robinson presented with Congressional Medal of Honor in August BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer The late Sgt. Daniel Robinson (third from left) is pictured here with Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. (right), who in August presented Robinson and Cpl. Austin Banks, also of Metuchen, with Congressional Gold Medals for their achievements as Montford Point…

  • Changing the world one child at a time

    Big Brothers Big Sisters matches disadvantaged youths with mentors BY NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer Royce Winsten, 2013 Big Brother of the Year, listens as his “little,” Wayne, plays bass in Belmar on Jan. 15. In 1998, Waldo Sainvilus was a student at Asbury Park Middle School struggling with coursework when he was selected to participate…

  • NEW HOPE: Dee Dee Bowman leads historians

       At its 54th annual meeting, the New Hope Historical Society elected Dee Dee Bowman president.    Ms. Bowman and her husband, Ernie, have resided in their 1817 residence in New Hope for 30 years where they have raised their two daughters.    She is a longtime member of the Historical Society having served several terms on its…

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