• Naming of Jackson administrator pulled from Aug. 10 council agenda

    Mayor Reina says approval of Ken Mallette could come on Aug. 24 By Dave Benjamin JACKSON — A resolution that would have appointed a new business administrator for Jackson was pulled from the Township Council’s Aug. 10 agenda on the morning of the meeting. The naming of a replacement for the previous administrator, Phil Del…

  • E.B.’s Quaglieri makes the grade on the gridiron

    BY JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent It’s often said that the difference between a win and a loss can be measured in inches. Joe Quaglieri knows this firsthand. East Brunswick football captain Joe Quaglieri is looking forward to the upcoming season. The Bears will be the defending NJSIAA Central Jersey Group IV champions. The senior offensive and…

  • Dirty Birds thriving against quality baseball teams

    Monroe team looking to win Ripken title BY JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent Last year the Monroe Township travel team did just that — traveled to Lamar, Colo., and participated in the Cal Ripken 10-year-old World Series, finishing in an impressive fourth place. This season the Dirty Birds, as they’re called, are now a year older and…

  • Lookin At Lucky romps at Izod Haskell Invitational

    Wins by four lengths BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Lookin At Lucky didn’t need luck at Sunday’s $1 million Izod Haskell Invitational. Jockey Martin Garcia brings Lookin At Lucky to the finish line of the $1 million Izod Haskell Invitational four lengths clear of the field Sunday at Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport. The win…

  • Campers learn the gross, the delicious, and all else

    Thousands of area kids choose from diverse subjects during summer camp BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Gabby Banyacski (l-r), 8, of Edison, Chris Banyacski, also 8, and Griffin Maker, 9, of Metuchen, test out their newly designed paper airplanes during a July 28 session of Camp Middlesex at Middlesex County College in Edison. EDISON —…

  • Paying homage to OBHS history, brick by brick

    Alumni group plans pathway leading to Lombardi Field BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer OLD BRIDGE — Time to dust off the yearbook and pull the old varsity jacket out of mothballs. Alumni from all incarnations of the township’s secondary schools are invited to participate in an ambitious high school reunion project. The Old Bridge Alumni…

  • Marguerite Nelson Sandberg

    Mrs. Sandberg, 79, of Monroe, formerly of South River, died July 16, 2010, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to her retirement in 1995, she was a bank teller with Central Jersey Savings, East Brunswick, where she worked for 20 years. She was predeceased by her husband, Robert Sandberg, and by a…

  • Nadine K. (Keane) Page

    Mrs. Page, 64, of Old Bridge/South Amboy, died July 21, 2010, at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. She was predeceased by her husband, Robert A. Page; Surviving are her children, Robert Page and his wife, Cynthia, of Hazlet; Jimmy Page and his wife, Lisa of Hightstown; Allison Dekis and her husband, Gary, of Parlin; and Eric…

  • Eleanor J. Burzinski

    Mrs. Burzinski, 78, of the Parlin section of Sayreville, died July 27, 2010, at Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge. She was a committee women in Sayreville for many years and had also worked for John & Kates Luncheonette and Bootsies Tavern & Restaurant, Sayreville. She was predeceased by her husband, Lawrence Burzinski, and her…

View our current articles

Stay connected to your community