• Toll collector sentenced for theft

    Apart-time toll collector for the New Jersey Turnpike Authority was sentenced last week to serve a 364-day jail term and repay $5,523 that was stolen over a 13-month period. Michael F. Yuhas, 55, of Manchester, Ocean County, also was placed on probation for five years and was forever barred from holding a public job, according…

  • Tighe named honorary grand marshal of parade

    SOUTH AMBOY — The St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee has chosen Sayreville resident Tom Tighe to serve as honorary grand marshal for 2009. Tighe, an active member in the community for many years, is a past president of the Middlesex County Ancient Order of Hibernians, and belongs to the David B. Kelly Chapter Division of…

  • Sohor is eager to get started on O.B. council

    Councilwoman-elect shares views on upcoming service BY LAUREN CIRAULO Mary Sohor will be the newest face on the Old Bridge Township Council when she is sworn in tomorrow. Mary Sohor But many are already familiar with the smile and congenial attitude of the diner manager and resident, a community mainstay for the past 32 years.…

  • Holiday Exhibition

    Hunter, 2, and Sean Tucker of Old Bridge look over one of the train sets on display as part of the annual Holiday Exhibition at the Monmouth Museum, Lincroft section of Middletown, on Dec. 26. CHRIS KELLY staff

  • Council to reorganize, set agenda for 2010

    Mayor: New year could include worker furloughs BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer As many wind down from New Year’s celebrations, Old Bridge officials will be getting to work on 2010 during their annual reorganization meeting tomorrow. The event, which begins at noon at the municipal complex, involves the inaugurations of the six Township Council members…

  • Soldier thanks students for supplies and letters

    Sayreville native touched by support from his former school BY JENNIFER BOOTON An elementary school project that reached U.S. soldiers overseas had one veteran so moved that he felt compelled to visit the students as a small token of his gratitude. JEFF GRANIT staff U.S. Army veteran Scott Armstrong, a former talented and gifted student…

  • Frank T. Szijarto

    Mr. Szijarto, 81, of Old Bridge, died Dec. 17, 2009, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to his retirement in 1992, he was a quality control inspector in the paint department for Ford Motor Co., Edison, where he worked for 40 years. He was a U.S. Army veteran, serving in World War…

  • Nancy A. Rahill

    Mrs. Rahill, 67, of Middletown, died Dec. 24, 2009, at Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark. She was the secretary at First Baptist Church of Matawan for the past 25 years. Prior to that, she was employed at Union Pacific Railroad Company. Mrs. Rahill is survived by her husband of 39 years, John P. Rahill; a…

  • Robert E. Brown

    Mr. Brown, 77, of East Brunswick, died Dec. 11, 2009, at home. Prior to his retirement, he was a plan administrator for I.U.O.E. Local 25, Marine Division, for 30 years. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. In 2001, a grandson, Maximillian Edward Honl, predeceased him. Surviving are his wife of 42…

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