• E.B. residents encouraged to apply for grants, loans

    BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — The deadline for the Community Development Block Grant program is rapidly approaching, and township officials are asking residents for their help. East Brunswick Community Housing Corp. Executive Director Linda Rubenstein presented the annual CDBG program at the Jan. 24 Township Council meeting, encouraging residents to suggest projects…

  • Greater Media Newspapers pleased to be part of green partnership

    North Jersey Media Group to add 20,400-panel solar unit to Rockaway printing plant North Jersey Media Group (NJMG), the owner of the printing facility used by Greater Media Newspapers’ 10 weekly publications, has announced a heightened commitment to green energy with the installation this year of a 20,400-panel solar facility at its printing and packaging…

  • Crothers, Natalicchio retire from EBPD

    EAST BRUNSWICK — The township’s police force will lose two of its veteran supervisors on Jan. 31. Capt. Tom Crothers will retire after 27 years on the police force, and Sgt. Paul Natalicchio will retire after 25 years. Crothers started with the police department in 1984. He served in both the Patrol Section and the…

  • Family Bingo, Pizza Dinner set at temple

    The Temple B’nai Shalom Religious School will host a Family Bingo and Pizza Dinner 6-9 p.m. Feb. 12 at the temple, Fern and Old Stage roads, East Brunswick. Families, parents, grandparents and children of all ages are invited to attend. The event will feature bingo, dinner, dessert and prizes for all children. Cost is $13…

  • Helmetta P.D. restructured with new director in charge

    Ely works with retired chiefs as dept. is ‘re-engineered’ BY CHRISTINA HABERSTROH Staff Writer Andrew Ely has been appointed to the newly created position of police director in Helmetta. He oversees the operation of a department of seven uniformed officers. HELMETTA — The borough’s police force has a new leader, but he won’t be addressed…

  • Holt brings Bean bill back amid rise in vets’ suicide rate

    Army report says 145 Guard, Reserve members took own lives in 2010 BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer Sgt. Coieman Bean EAST BRUNSWICK — Rep. Rush Holt (D-12th District) is renewing efforts to pass a bill intended to strengthen treatment resources for returning soldiers. His reintroduction of the measure, which was suddenly removed from the federal…

  • Snow days giving way to school makeup days

    Area school officials weigh options of extending year or shortening breaks BY CHRISTINA HABERSTROH Staff Writer Mike Hye of Monroe clears the sidewalk outside the Jamesburg Presbyterian Church on Gatzmer Avenue Jan. 27 after another storm dropped about a foot of snow on the region. JEFF GRANIT staff Many kids love snow days for the…

  • Playland ‘could go on forever,’ Greek says

    Monroe zoning board OKs variance for onsite banquet facility BY CHRISTINA HABERSTROH Staff Writer Greek’s Playland, the nonprofit Monroe amusement park for disabled children, has a future after all. After many hours of testimony given over several hearings before the Zoning Board of Adjustment, Spiro “The Greek” Drake and Dr. Beatrice Mittman got the vote…

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    Students perform a traditional dance during the Huaxia East Brunswick Chinese School’s Chinese New Year Celebration Jan. 29 at Churchill Junior High School, East Brunswick. The event featured Chinese folk songs, dances, acrobat shows, martial arts and traditional Chinese musical instrument performance. SCOTT FRIEDMAN

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