• Dog days of August

    From top: Julian Prager, president of the Bulldog Club of New Jersey, checks out the hind legs of Sophie while owner Evelyn Heath of Philadelphia looks on during the puppy match part of an Aug. 15 bulldog show at the Middlesex County 4-H building in East Brunswick. The club says such events provide an educational…

  • Rescue squad member pens kids’ book on EMT work

    Tells readers about ambulance work through the eyes of a child who just wants to dance BY MARY ANNE ROSS Correspondent Barry Bachenheimer EAST BRUNSWICK — Township rescue squad member Barry Bachenheimer found a hidden treasure while browsing through his old college papers some years ago: a children’s story he had written for an English…

  • Sale to benefit family of Jamesburg fire victim

    Friends organize fundraiser yard sale for Sept. 4 BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer MONROE — The news that resident George Lowenberg had lost his wife and the mother of his baby son in a horrific early July fire in their Jamesburg home hit township resident Lori Vreeland hard. Many years ago, her grandmother had…

  • Vietnam vets long gone, definitely not forgotten

    Signs detail sacrifices of two local men BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer MONROE — Jan Joseph Grabowski and Richard V. Ives are forever young. Both were killed at the age of 20 in Vietnam more than 40 years ago. But their sacrifice has not been forgotten, thanks to the efforts of several residents and…

  • E.B. landfill operators fined $2 million

    Owners will have to upgrade gas collection systems, conduct regular monitoring BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer The federal government has intervened to resolve longstanding regulatory issues with two landfills in East Brunswick, and has charged site owners over $2 million in fines. Over a mile of riverfront property at the Edgeboro Landfill has been restored,…

  • Pfister succeeds Grygo as S.R. superintendent

    Board members bid farewell to schools chief after 7 years BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer South River school district’s assistant superintendent has taken over the district’s top job. Michael Pfister is serving as acting superintendent as of Sept. 1, taking over for Ronald Grygo, who retired after 38 years with South River Public Schools, the…

  • Hatikvah to open amid dispute over enrollment

    E.B. board says it will pay $873,076 for 77 students BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Hatikvah International Charter School will open in September as scheduled, thanks to a ruling last week by the state commissioner of education. In his decision Aug. 26, one day before his firing over an unrelated matter, Bret Schundler determined that…

  • Rutgers Cooperative Extension’s EARTH

    Lee Busch of East Brunswick admires the butterflies during an open house event held at the Rutgers Cooperative Extension’s EARTH Center (Environment, Agriculture, Research, Teaching, Health) in Davidson’s Mill Pond Park in South Brunswick on Saturday. SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • A royal(ty) opportunity?

    CORNER OFFICE PETER SMYTH As chairman and CEO of Greater Media Inc., the parent company of 23 radio stations located in markets around the country, including seven stations in New Jersey, I have a keen interest in keeping free and local radio a viable industry. Many of you may have read recent press accounts of…

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