• Spotswood awards bid for road repair work

    $304,000 project being funded with a state grant BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer SPOTSWOOD — Several dilapidated roadways in the borough will receive a needed face-lift now that an extensive improvement project is under way. The Borough Council on Aug. 9 awarded a contract to Meco Inc., an asphalt-paving contractor based in Clarksburg, for repair…

  • Havin’ a ball

    From top: Ronald McDonald gets a kick out of entertaining children at The Fields Sports Complex on Cornwall Court in East Brunswick Aug. 8. McDonald’s sponsored a soccer clinic at the new facility for 100 children up to 9 years old. Youngsters take a break during the clinic. McDonald’s selected several children to escort players…

  • Board raises concerns over development plan

    Arisa seeking to drop age restrictions from future housing complex BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer The East Brunswick Planning Board is inching closer to a decision on a developer’s request to remove the age-restriction caveat from a senior housing development. The applicant for the plan, Arisa Realty Inc., hopes to transition its 90 apartment-style units…

  • Vietnam Era Museum & Educational Center

    Seven-year-old Russell Fagan of Monroe takes a closer look at one of the displays on hand at the Vietnam Era Museum & Educational Center in Holmdel on Aug. 21. The center hosted a 1960s Family Day, which included family activities related to the Vietnam-era time period, that took place throughout the day. ERIC SUCAR staff

  • Monroe looks to address disparity in fire tax rates

    Some township residents pay nearly twice that of others BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer Local officials have gone out to bid for an independent consultant to come up with ways to equalize the fire tax rates in Monroe’s three fire districts. “I live in Greenbriar, in the third district,” council President Gerald W. Tamburro…

  • Charter school fires back at school district

    Hatikvah says it has enough students; claims school board is making bogus claims BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer While the East Brunswick Board of Education has filed suit to stop the Hatikvah International Academy from opening this summer, the charter school claims the board is using sabotage tactics and making bogus claims. The township school…

  • Monroe Township Recreation Department’s annual Fishing Derby,

    A man gets ready to cast his fishing pole during the Monroe Township Recreation Department’s annual Fishing Derby, held Aug. 10 at Molders Fish Farm off Englishtown Road in Old Bridge. JEFF GRANIT staff

  • Family reunions: an unlikely place to learn life’s greatest lesson

    GIRL TALK CLARE MARIE CELANO Family reunions can present us with a fast-track emotional roller coaster, much like the Cyclone I used to ride at Palisades Park when I was young and brave. On our way to one of these get-togethers, we can imagine ourselves young and energetic as we smear on globs of wrinkle…

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