• Husband-wife team finds calling with ‘bed & bark-fest’

    Local couple turns love of animals into boarding, pet sitting service BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer Tom Sawyer plays with the dogs in the backyard of the couple’s Old Bridge home. PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff OLD BRIDGE — While talking with Darlene Sawyer, there are frequent, sometimes loud, interruptions. The distractions might be unwelcome if…

  • Drive-thru food collection set in O.B.

    The Old Bridge Food Bank, 1 Old Bridge Plaza, in the municipal complex, Route 516 and Cottrell Road, will hold a Drive-Thru Food Drive 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Aug. 27. Individuals may drive up with their donations; food-bank volunteers will unload items from the car. The following items are requested and most needed: tunafish; mayonnaise, ketchup…

  • Giant Flea Market scheduled for Aug. 20

    The St. Thomas Rosary Society, Old Bridge, will hold its 21st annual Giant Flea Market 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Aug. 20 in St. Thomas the Apostle Church parking lot, Route 18 south, Old Bridge. Rain date isAug. 27. For information, call Charlotte at 732-257-0721.

  • Sayreville, Old Bridge police plan crack down on drunken drivers

    Local police departments will be stepping up efforts against drunk drivers in the weeks ahead. Old Bridge and Sayreville police announced their participation in the summer 2011 “Over the Limit, Under Arrest” statewide campaign. FromAug. 19 through Sept. 5, Old Bridge police officers will be conducting sobriety checkpoints looking for motorists who may be driving…

  • Fire damages Sayreville home

    SAYREVILLE — A fire ripped through a home in the Towne Lake development on Friday. The blaze caused major damage to the Fritz Drive house, but no injuries were reported. A male resident who was home alone at the time of the fire evacuated on his own with his two dogs, according to fire officials.…

  • Ladies auxiliary sets Aug. 23 meeting

    The Ladies Auxiliary of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 4699, Sayreville, will hold its next monthly meeting 8 p.m. Aug. 23 at the post home, 575 Jernee Mill Road. Participants are invited to bring ideas on how to better assist U.S. soldiers serving overseas. For more information, call 732-264-3041.

  • Sayreville eyes nearly $3M in improvements, purchases

    BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer SAYREVILLE — The Borough Council is gearing up to spend close to $3 million in capital expenditures this year through two bond ordinances scheduled for votes in September. Officials discussed the ordinances at the council’s Aug. 8 meeting. One would fund the purchase and repairs of town vehicles and equipment; the…

  • SERA appointments at issue in Sayreville

    Officials accused of playing politics with commissioner seats BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer SAYREVILLE — Disagreements abound among borough officials over whom to nominate for two open positions on the Sayreville Economic and Redevelopment Agency. The Borough Council on Aug. 8 voted 3-1 to deny Mayor Kennedy O’Brien’s nomination of Barbara Kilcommons for SERAcommissioner. Republican Councilman…

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