• County archives building expected to ‘go green’

    NORTH BRUNSWICK — Middlesex County is expected to save $100,000 when it installs a new HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) system at the county’s Archives Building off Apple Orchard Lane in North Brunswick. The county has been accepted into PSE&G’s Direct Install program, which is a new program that helps municipal, local and state…

  • Metuchen Inn suffers damages, closes after fire

    Owner says building will be restored; hopes to re-open by summer BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer METUCHEN — The Metuchen Inn, a historic landmark in the borough, has closed for an indefinite period of time following an early morning fire last week. The entire bar area of the 167-year-old buildingwas gutted as firefighters attacked the…

  • In the hunt

    Above: Kathryn McMahan, 2, looks for an egg during Metuchen’s annual Spring Egg Hunt at Myrtle Park Saturday. Right: Evelyn Hand, 18 months, sports a bunny look. PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • Economic forum offered to business community

    METUCHEN — An economic forum for local business owners next month will focus on ideas and tools to help reinvigorate the downtown business district. Metuchen Savings Bank and the Metuchen Area Chamber of Commerce will host the event, called “Metuchen Cares: An Economic Forum,” from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. April 7 at the Senior Citizen…

  • County ice rink closes early

    EDISON — Due to the recent severe storms and unusually warm weather, the Middlesex County Department of Parks and Recreation was forced to end the ice skating season early at the popular Roosevelt Park Family Ice Rink. The original closing date would have been March 28. The rink will re-open for roller skating season at…

  • Metuchen board faces $1.54M state aid loss

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer METUCHEN — Superintendent Terri Sinatra said her administration is working to maintain the quality of education in the district despite a “catastrophic” loss in its state aid. “We are doing everything possible,” she said. District officials learned last week they will see an 89 percent cut in state aid for…

  • Power company donation gets Y closer to its goal

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer PSE&G is helping the YMCA’s Edison branch achieve its proposed 6,000-squarefoot expansion with a $50,000 donation. “With everything that they had to go through with the storm [the March 13 nor’easter] last week, it is much appreciated that they could donate this amount of money to us,” said William Lovett,…

  • Egg hunt

    Children scramble to gather plastic eggs filled with candy and even some special prize eggs during Metuchen’s annual Spring Egg Hunt at Myrtle Park Saturday. SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • Edison schools lose nearly $10M in aid

    Board look at cuts in staff, programs; budget adoption scheduled for March 31 BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer ‘Devastating” is how acting Schools Superintendent John DiMuzio described the news that the school district will lose more than half its state aid for the next school year. “We will have to make at least $10 million…

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