• Photo

    ERIC SUCAR staff The Brick Memorial High School girls basketball team runs through a passing drill during practice at the school gymnasium on Dec. 16. ERIC SUCAR staff

  • Lake Riviera grapplers off to good start for season

    BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer Lake Riviera Middle School’s threetime Ocean County Blue Division championship wrestling team has the makings of another fine season, despite seeing its 27-match unbeaten streak halted by Southern. Just how good the team is will be realized on Jan. 30 in the Ocean County Middle Schools Blue Division tournament, followed…

  • New atlas puts New Jersey back on the map

    Maps have been around for as long as human civilization. Early cartographers drew maps on animal skins or carved them into clay tablets to help hunters and traders find their way.M odern maps show much more —everything from rainfall to railroads, from preserved lands to toxic waste sites, from how residents vote to how much…

  • Catch a ride if you catch a buzz during holidays

    The holiday season is supposed to be a time for family, friends, and festive celebrations, but it is unfortunately also a time when there is a tragic jump in the number of alcohol related highway fatalities each year between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. That is why Prevention First is joining with other national, state and…

  • New zero-tolerance policy may change sports world

    Coda Coda • GREG BEAN I see this on television from time to time, and I think it’s a good idea. So here it is: Warning! Part of this column deals with adult subject matter — and that subject matter is sex.   When I was growing up, we didn’t have any professional sports teams…

  • Students don’t ‘cow’-er away from idea of helping others

    Judd Elem. fifth-graders donate money to Heifer International BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — A popular children’s book begins, “If you give a mouse a cookie,” but the fifth-grade class at Judd Elementary School is wondering what happens if you give a family a cow. About 120 students in the classes of Ernest…

  • Livingston Park Elem. celebrates achievements

    State of the School address delivered Dec. 9 BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — Livingston Park Elementary has been named a School of Character by the New Jersey Department of Education. It has received a Best Practice award for citizenship and tolerance. It has received a New Jersey Star School designation from the…

  • Waste transfer station approved in New Brunswick

    North Brunswick residents still worried about environmental, residential impacts BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NEW BRUNSWICK — An application for a waste transfer station in the city of New Brunswick, which borders North Brunswick, was approved by the Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders on Dec. 17. The applicant, 986 Jersey Avenue LLC, representing the…

View our current articles

Stay connected to your community