• Christmas blaze takes South River woman’s life

    BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent SOUTH RIVER — A three-alarm Christmas Day blaze ripped through the Hotel Pershing boarding house on Main Street, causing the death of one resident and leaving others homeless. The blaze started just before midnight and it took firefighters until 3 or 4 a.m. to put it out. The name of the…

  • Grandparents’ Day

    PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff Clockwise from top: Phyllis Schaffter, of Monroe, kisses her grandson Trey Schaffter during Monroe Township’s Grandparents’ Day event on Dec. 27, which included lunch at the Monroe Community Center and a trip to the movies. Marion Carpenito, of Monroe, accompanies her grandson Ryan Carpenito during the event. Ashley Koppelman, 3,…

  • Pay cuts, salary freezes imposed in Monroe

    Mayor says move is an important gesture in trying economic times BY JAMES McEVOY Staff Writer The Monroe Township Council has approved a 10 percent pay cut for themselves and Mayor Richard C. Pucci. Also included in the ordinance, which was approved in a unanimous vote on Dec. 26, is a 2013 pay freeze for…

  • Banking on blood donations

    Kevin Karol of Fair Haven donates blood at the Central Jersey Blood Center headquarters in Shrewsbury on Dec. 19. During the winter months, donations of blood often plummet, prompting the designation of January as National Blood Donors Month to encourage members of the public to help save a life. JEFF GRANIT staff

  • E.B. rabbi arrested following accusation

    By James McEvoy EAST BRUNSWICK — Rabbi Aryeh Goodman, director of the East Brunswick Chabad, has been arrested by the Middlesex County Sheriff’s Office. According to a Pennsylvania State Police report obtained by Greater Media Newspapers, a male told authorities in the summer of 2012 that he had been assaulted by Goodman, 30, while he…

  • Upscale, downsize

    Acura’s new ILX compact sedan delivers a captivating combination of sportiness and luxury By Jim Gorzelany CTW Features Honda’s upscale Acura division has had a gaping hole in its lineup ever since it dropped the compact RSX (previously called the Integra) in 2006. The original Integra, which debuted two decades earlier as a sportier and…

  • Q&A

    Middling options with Sharon Peters Q: Is there such a vehicle as a medium SUV? I’ve seen references made to small and large SUVs, but never medium SUVs. I have a Caravan and want to downsize a little. I need more cargo room than a small SUV offers; but, not as much as the Caravan.…

  • Heritage House SIR announces launch of branded website for luxury ski market segment

    Heritage House Sotheby’s International Realty, a luxury brand based in Northern Monmouth County, announces the Sotheby’s International Realty brand’s launch of a ski specialty market website, the latest in a planned series of branded websites for specialty markets. The specialized website, which can be found at skipropertysir.com, matches the look and feel of the brand’s…

  • Jumbos: No longer a big problem

    The jumbo loan market is growing, and that’s good news for everyone By Marilyn Kennedy Melia CTW Features I n the wake of the credit crisis, the rich were no different from everyone else. Getting a mortgage “was tough for everyone,” remembers Frank Donnelly, president of the Mortgage Bankers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Now,…

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