• Bill honoring memory of local teen proceeds

    Aproposal that would honor a late Sayreville teen by creating a nextof kin registry to be used to notify family when a loved one is incapacitated in a serious accident is moving forward in the state Legislature. The Assembly approved the bill in a 78- 0 vote in June, and the Senate Budget and Appropriates…

  • Omission of Bean bill described as baffling

    East Brunswick family, Holt vow to continue fight for improved veterans’ services BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — A bill named for a local veteran and intended to strengthen treatment resources for returning soldiers will not be funded this year. Its sudden removal from the federal DefenseAuthorizationAct of 2011 has angered a local…

  • DWI checkpoints established around county over holidays

    Police have been setting up sobriety checkpoints around the county as part of an effort to keep motorists safe from drunken drivers during the holiday season, Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce J. Kaplan announced. As of last week, the latest round of checks, which began on Nov. 12, has resulted in 159 summonses issued for a…

  • Chocolate lovers

    Above: Students sing and play the recorder during the Judd Elementary School’s fourthand fifth-grade production of “The Chocolate Factory” Dec. 21 in North Brunswick. Above right: Students gather to sing “The Candy Man” during the finale. PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • On the ice

    Lawrence Lung, 14, of North Brunswick, placed third overall in the Intermediate Men’s Division at the U.S. Junior National Figure Skating Championships in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Dec. 18. He placed fourth in the short program and third in the free skate. Lung’s performance also included the successful landing of a triple lutz in…

  • Dancing the night away

    Top: Linda Hand cuts the rug during the Senior Citizen Holiday Winter Dance in North Brunswick Dec. 10. Above: Seniors enjoyed an evening of dinner and dancing. PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • S.B. resident named Nurse of the Year by March of Dimes

    BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — A South Brunswick resident was recently honored with the Nurse of the Year in Leadership award by the March of Dimes. Kari Mastro, vice president of nursing at the Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, was one of the 250…

  • No. Brunswick evaluating use of red-light cameras

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — The township is considering using cameras to identify vehicles that pass through red lights at certain intersections. During a council workshop meeting Dec. 13, Councilman Bob Davis said that he, Police Director Ken McCormick, Police Deputy Chief Joseph Battaglia and Business Administrator Robert Lombard had met with…

  • Family seeks to sell off set of 31 vintage guitars

    Late resident had collected hand-crafted guitars made by New Jersey’s Sam Koontz BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer It’s a story that might make William Shakespeare proud. “We’ve got passion, we’ve got love, we have beauty, we have death and we have suicide … it’s everything that Shakespeare would have written about,” said Christopher Wylde, who…

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