-

Sayreville set to score big in support of local family
Home run derby planned to help pay medical bills of resident fighting cancer BY STELLA MORRISON Staff Writer SAYREVILLE — Jeanne Monte felt helpless when she heard that her friend Robert Werb was diagnosed with stage 4 liver cancer last August. Monte, a former Sayreville PTO president and a parent involved with the Sayreville Little…
-

So. Amboy sand and gravel company on track to close
As part of shutdown, new restrictions focus on operating hours, sand pile height BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent SOUTH AMBOY — As O’Neill Properties Group prepares to close on its purchase of the Amboy Aggregates waterfront property, the business, according to city officials, is getting closer to being shut down. Amboy Aggregates is a sand and…
-

Colorist’s unique skills breathe life into comics
Tom Smith of Old Bridge has collaborated with many of the industry’s famed creators BY CHUCK O’DONNELL Correspondent Tom Smith Tom Smith’s hand is a blur as it whisks a stylus from one side of a pad to the other. Up, down, right, down, left, right, down, right — this is his brush and canvas.…
-

Split board OKs $1.4M ball field project in O.B.
Officials defend investment in turf field with lighting, batting cage, bullpens and scoreboard BY DEANNA McLAFFERTY Correspondent Accused of losing focus on academic needs, the Old Bridge Board of Education is defending its decision to spend large sums of district money on athletic projects. As part of a multi-phased redevelopment of Lombardi Field at Carl…
-

Photo
Players with the Sayreville Riverdogs 13-U baseball team and their family members wash down a car during an Aug. 25 car wash fundraiser at the Sayreville Little League complex on Washington Road. SCOTT FRIEDMAN
-

Sayreville council adopts budget with $56 tax hike
Council members accuse each other of playing ‘political games’ BY STELLA MORRISON Staff Writer After a lengthy battle waged over the 2012 municipal budget, the Sayreville Borough Council adopted the spending plan in a 4-2 vote on Aug. 27. The council was under increasing pressure to pass the budget, with the state Department of Community…
-

Experts: Motive hard to ascribe immediately after shooting
By Stella Morrison OLD BRIDGE – Experts in workplace violence and criminal justice reacted to the Aug. 31 shooting in an Old Bridge Pathmark supermarket by analyzing what the alleged shooter’s motivations may have been. A Pathmark employee allegedly shot and killed two fellow employees before turning the gun on himself during the 4 a.m.…
-

Pathmark employees receiving counseling in wake of shooting
By Nicole Antonucci OLD BRIDGE – During an overnight shift at the Pathmark supermarket on Route 9 north in Old Bridge, there are typically three or four employees in the store, but about 12 employees were present in the early morning hours of Aug. 31, when an employee returned to the store and gunned down…
-

Old Bridge in shock after shooting deaths
Neighbor: ‘You’re not safe anywhere. You just never know.’ By James McEvoy Staff Writer Middlesex County prosecutor Bruce Kaplan can be seen through the windows at the Old Bridge Pathmark after a shooting on Aug. 31. At least three people died in the incident.Photo by Jeff GranitOLD BRIDGE — In the wake of an Aug.…
View our current articles
Stay connected to your community
